Giving off a feeling of a close community rather than a divided and unstable group, the SASA made sure to bring the South African art form and its artists to national recognition. ... While the Colonial period was underway, South African painters and sculptors began to put the images and reflections of the new world onto blank canvases and rocks that took on a new form of its own. ... A new change and removal of certain limitations was to be taken place as the years of apartheid created more diversity in the art form. ... These two rejected the mixed South African-European arts and artists, an...

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In her article "Black Art," Maulana Karenga says it best: "Tradition teaches us that all African art has at least three characteristics: that is, functional, collective, and committing or committed" (1973-4). ... Thusly, the art must also be drawn from the people and given back in a more attractive and vivid form, something with the power to energize the beaten souls. ... Literature is not just a form of amusement nor a catharsis; it's a reason to celebrate who they are, who they've become, and who they want to be. ... "Black Art: Mute Matter Given Force and Function...

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1.3) Contextual Introduction Born in Dakar in the year 1945, Mbaye is an artist Senegalise contemporary painter, sculptor and art teacher. ... Tourists are known to have a major influence on Mbaye's work as he resides in the "Village des Artes", a large space with 50 studios set aside especially for artists by the Senegalese government in 1998 in order to give the people of the country a chance at the global contemporary art scene and to have them continue the tradition of unique Senegalese art (McKinley, 2003). ... Her work began with found objects arranged in boxes and these...

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Locke acknowledged that it was necessary to make Blacks realize that "the African representation of form, previously regarded as ridicioulsy crude and inadequate, appeared cunningly sophisticated and masterful."" ... The work African-American were to produce had to be distinctevely black in both form and content, artists had to use and display African inspirations in order to express their messages. As the New Negro as such had no biological bond or even authentical understanding of African art, saw Locke it as necessary that all influences, may they be African, American or European, were to ...

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Various forms of expression, clandestine yet lucent, developed out of these feelings. One such form was music. ... Art 17th-century Africans had art forms that would be considered advanced even today. ... Thus, there was little opportunity for the slave to express his creativity in graphic and plastic art for the church as he had done in Africa where religion and art were inseparable. ... Incidentally, there was an outpouring of African-American art after emancipation. ...

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To further my humility it dawned on me that I am also an art major. ... The reason for this is primarily because African craftsmanship is based on form and design rather than representation. ... The people are all different in gesture and pose, but very similar in form, thus giving the composition a great sense of rhythm that is created by the use of repetition in these forms. ... This work of art is amazing. ... Most importantly I"ve showed how Aaron Douglas combines the rules of art with emotion and heritage to create a breathtaking work of art. ...

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To further my humility it dawned on me that I am also an art major. ... The reason for this is primarily because African craftsmanship is based on form and design rather than representation. ... The people are all different in gesture and pose, but very similar in form, thus giving the composition a great sense of rhythm that is created by the use of repetition in these forms. ... This work of art is amazing. ... Most importantly I've showed how Aaron Douglas combines the rules of art with emotion and heritage to create a breathtaking work of art. ...

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African American Musicians with a sense of "black pride" expressed their uniqueness in a new form of music, known as jazz. ... The visual art of the Harlem Renaissance was an attempt at developing a new African-American aesthetic in the fine arts. ... He was a student at Cooper Union in New York and pursued independent studies at Boothbay Art Colony in Maine. ... She began her career after attending the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. ... She persevered through many roadblocks and prejudices, without ever losing her passion to express herself through art. ...

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This is just one of the hurdles black artists that remained as black as they were faced with respect to their jobs and art. Their people tried not to identify with their art and the white people outright ignored it. ... Hughes called out on those African Americans artists that were suppressing their authentic expression as "nordicism Negro intelligentsia" He showed his disdain for the African American creative artists who hid their individual and cultural experiences in a bid to produce an almost white form of art. Their desire to strip their art of every black experience contribute...

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Marshall describes the kitchen setting she was exposed to as a child: They were women in whom the need for self-expression was strong, and since language was the only vehicle readily available to them they made of it an art form that- in keeping with the African tradition in which art and life are one - was an integral part of their lives (Marshall, 1996: 1948). The ancestry Marshall refers to had the same barriers as Walker expressed that her ancestors had: they had only their voice through which they chose to speak or sin...

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I thought Wayne's art work holds a lot of depth and perception as far as what he's trying to say through his artwork. ... Wayne's use of "physical" art and his indirect manner of stating his view points is what attracted me the most. When art is physical and can be touched and seen from more then one dimension it gives it a sense of realism which makes it more outstanding to the viewer. ... I think when it comes to art it should be expressed without words or any form of text. Once text is used in art, the viewers ability to interpret becomes limited to the wo...

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She was the one who introduced him to the bohemian art secne. ... I was in very closed circle - that was about the time I went to Cuba - And I felt the need to break out of the type of form that I was using then. I guess this was not only because of the form it self but of the content which was not my politics."... The Black Art movement was not only important to the Black National movement, but for other minority's art movements. ... He felt that the Black artist must express his American experience in forms that spring from his own unique culture and that his art must be evaluated b...

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If the lady he describes is black, did it possibly change his writing style in any shape or form? ... I believe so, because not only does this piece give blacks an insight on our history and far back we were a part of the world, but this piece also tells black culture how much of an influence we had on art and history. ...

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This contemporary art form utilizes some of the black community's most pervasive weapons; aggressive imagery, music and the art of storytelling. ... She goes on to say that the history of Black power movement talk and its impact on the development of hip hop, located it as a musical form, at best revolutionary and at least rebellious, for young listeners across the globe. ... It has a political location in society distinctly ascribed to black people, music and cultural forms 3. ... Much of hip hops quintessence is essentially black in that it pulls from numerous forms of black music, i.e....

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The Negro's Contribution to American Art and Literature. ... The Negro and His Music: Negro Art, Past and Present. ... Negro Art: Past and Present. ... The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1979. ...

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The Negro's Contribution to American Art and Literature. ... The Negro and His Music: Negro Art, Past and Present. ... Negro Art: Past and Present. ... The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1979. ...

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This phase in New York was called the Harlem Renaissance, which was a unique time were art inspired by African Americans flourished rapidly. Langston Hughes was a well-respected figure that influenced many people with his diverse forms of writing during this time of the Harlem Renaissance. ... Langston Hughes continued writing using a new form also wrote an amazing weekly column in the Chicago Defender, which was considered his finest literary achievement during World War II. ... I say this because of all the different forms he could write in also Hughes had a skill of always...

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A uniquely American art form, jazz traced its birth to a combination of ragtime, marching band music, and the blues. " The spontaneity and excitement of the music produced by black artists 'riffing' on old blues and classical themes found a ready outlet in the New York of the post-war era."... With art by the James Van der Zee and Aaron Douglas, Harlem became the focal point for a vibrant new life of the mind and spirit of the "New Negro" in those exciting days between World War I and the beginning of the Great Depression. The diverse literary expression of the Harlem Renaissance r...

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Both Indians and the whites did not want to see a state that was considered a "Negro State", though an all black town was formed in 1891 in Langston, Oklahoma. ... The African Americans brought with them to these states many of their African cultures though art, dance, music and life African heritage, which are seen today in many areas of the United States. ...

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Racial discrimination is a crucial element of American civilization. Even after African-Americans gained their freedom from slavery after the end of the Civil War, they still faced a strong racial prejudice from the majority of white people throughout the nation, since the 13th Amendment of the Unit...

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This is when African American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, which is an area of New York City. ... On the down side, the same old evils of racial hatred and discrimination got worse for African Americans in the form of the KKK and in work and housing choices. ...

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Another way institutional racism was used against the blacks was through various media structures like television, books and art. ... These various forms of oppression all worked together to keep the blacks enslaved and even after slavery they were used to keep them in less equal positions in society. ...

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Across the culture spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found a new way to explore the historical experiences of black America. ... A number of white artists and patrons began to view blacks and black culture less condescendingly, and began to offer "mainstream" publishers and art venues. ... Although the Harlem renaissance was one of the primarily African American involvements and an interpersonal support system of black patrons, black owned businesses and pub...

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He is not alone; there are many Black intellectuals during this period crafting art, literature and poetry in ways to express their heritage. ... It takes the form of a dramatic monologue, a weary mother giving worldly advice to her son. ... The final six lines of the poem signals the lesson provided by the mother's climb up the stairway of life; this wisdom and conclusion to the argument comes in the form of three admonishments. ...

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Furthermore, this American man, as the years passed, marked a large global recognition because he transformed jazz that from its beginnings was a kind of dance music with folk roots, in a commercial art form, laying his career at first, for his high quality as performer, to be later his vocalist condition which had a predominant impact on jazz singing.  ... Consequently, with the two bands that he formed Hot Five and Hot Seven, recorded many themes that would cause much furor such as the composition ''West end Blues'', in which the final chorus by Armstrong was a masterpi...

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