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50 Years of Black Visual Artists: Watch Colored Frames [Documentary]
Learn about a half century of Black America and the visual arts in this wonderful documentary, Colored Frames. Colored Frames is an unflinching exploration of influences, inspirations and experiences of black artists. Beginning at the height of the Civil Rights Era and leading up to the present, it is a naked and truthful look at […]
Big List of African American Visual Artists by Medium
Inspired by this pretty comprehensive list of historic African-American visual artists, we decided to add to its usefulness by organizing it in a different way, featuring artists grouped together by the medium in which they express themselves: printmaking, painting, photography, sculpture, installations, performance art, body art, conceptual art, video art, and digital art. Sound off […]
African American Christmas Art and Gifts
Weve found a new collection of Christmas themed vintage illustrations. The works come from several stories, including Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Speakin o Christmas” and other Christmas and special poems, “Holiday-week on a Louisiana Estate” with illustrations by Nathaniel Orr, and more of individual prints including one of African American parents hiding Christmas gifts from their […]
Post-Civil War and the Bridge to Contemporary African American Art
After the Civil War, it ended up being progressively appropriate for African American-created works to be shown in museums, and artists significantly produced works for this function. These were works mainly in the European romantic and classical customs of pictures and landscapes. Henry Ossawa Tanner, Edmonia Lewis, and Edward Mitchell Bannisterare the most significant of […]
Art from the Civil War and Antebellum Period
From its early origins in servant neighborhoods, through completion of the 20th century, African-American art has actually made an important contribution to the art of the United States. Throughout the duration in between the 17th century and the early 19th century art took the type of little drums, quilts, wrought-iron figures and ceramic vessels in […]