Black History Month, day 20
It’s my drawing day, so I went looking for figurative drawings by African-American artists and found some beauties.
“Study for Willie J.,” by Charles White
Self Portrait, by Samella Lewis. She was 19 years old.
“Morning Is Here, No Dawn,” by John Thomas Biggers (photo #4 in the slideshow). Actually, this one is a lithograph, but wow, what a draftsman.
Also, just today we went to SFMOMA and I was intrigued by the very different kind of work of Mark Bradford: very large collages, or assemblages–or given his process, maybe the term is disassemblages–made of many layers of found paper. By the time we got to that floor, the munchkin was very anxious to get to the children’s room, so I only got a peek. I will have to go back and spend a long time looking at these without a child in tow.
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February 21, 2012 at 7:34 am
David Zucker
The quality, skill, humanity of these drawings (the Bradford one wouldn’t come up on my computer) don’t amaze me; I simply assume, rightly, that “black” artists have the quality of “white” artists. In the arts in general African Americans have shone: theater, film, literature, across the board. What is worth taking note of is that blacks have in general been poor, suppressed and depressed. So the outstanding art shown here is amazing on that level, but in every other, they are equals to others.
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