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    In Larry Neal’s essay entitled, The Black Arts Movement, he writes that “the motive behind the Black aesthetic is the destruction of the white thing. The destruction of white ideas, and white ways of looking at the world” (Neal, The Black Arts Movement). Larry Neal defines the Black Aesthetic as such, to emphasize that the motive of the movement is to destroy things all white and is also introducing the politics of the movement. Neal echoes the views of Malcolm X, who urged for a cultural…

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    Black African Americans moved out of all south to northern cities to try to escape racism and discrimination. The movement was called the great migration everybody wanted to live as equal and not to be describe as a “black”. After moving out the south to northern cities, to leave racial pronouns and discrimination behind so blacks got smart suck as poets they created high art and folk art this way to prove to everybody that we were way more than just black, to show that we were way more than…

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    Renaissance Art Movement began in Italy and means rebirth. The Renaissance Art Movement was in the late 13th and early 14th century. This was a time when individual expression and worldly expression became two of the main themes. This movement had a lot of economic growth. Education blossomed in this time period. New technology was born in this time period, like the printing press. Most of the art in this period was commissioned by wealthy merchant families, mostly the Medici. Much of the art in…

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    I have decided to do this paper on the Renaissance art movement. Renaissance means rebirth or revival, from the French language, and it started in the late 14th century to the 16th century in Italy. There is a “proto-Renaissance” time period that blossomed in the early 13th century but was taken by war and the plague. This era started in Italy because Italy had a lot of classic Roman architecture and sculptures. Many artists wanted to bring this since of artwork back to revive it. Renaissance…

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    school, Hammons began taking night classes at the Otis Art Institute where he studied under the notable artist Charles White (“David Hammons” 2016). After unearthing his prodigious abilities and passion for art, Hammons deserted advertising and enrolled full-time at the Chouinard Art Institute in 1966 (“David Hammons” 2016). After graduating from art school in 1968, Hammons began creating works of art referred to as “body prints” which…

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    In the wake of the Black Power Movement a group of politically motivated artists, poets, and musicians emerged to ignite what was known as the Black Arts Movement in the mid 1960s. One of the artists who emerged from this era was Ernest Barnes. Known as the “Picasso of the black world,” Barnes was born in Durham, North Carolina, and was known for his artistic expression of the African American lifestyle. “The Sugar Shack” was one of his most widely renowned paintings, since it fully captured the…

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    group amongst many that faces difficulty in finding success through their art whether they are musicians, artists, writers, or dramatists. To make a change for themselves, there have been African American individuals who have united to establish movements with their motive being to seek liberation. Of the various movements formed, the Black Arts Movement was very popular. Unlike most articles, Larry Neal’s The Black Arts Movement was an effective piece that explicitly defines what the…

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    What was it? The Harlem renaissance was a huge arts movement started by the African-American community of Harlem in the 1920’s. In a time where race riots and lynchings were nothing out of the ordinary, a professional artist of any sort was not considered a legitimate career choice for an African-American person. The Harlem renaissance was a movement that helped to bring forth talented black people and also to create positivity and creativity in a time of great turmoil. Who was it? There…

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    Oakland is a community flourishing in the arts, poetry and literature that has historically ignored in academia by major publishing companies. Most of this work consists of oral/performance poetry and flourishes in communal spaces, spaces that work towards unifying the community and creating a safe environment for underrepresented and marginalized communities.From the beginning of the Black Arts Movement in the 70s with writers such as Ishmael Reed and Sarah Webster Fabio have pushed the…

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    all the arts in home decorations, by emphasizing nature and form simplicity.…

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