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Section 13.3: Module 2 Art and Race Forum 1

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    Research the artists in this Module, and discuss their work. Include specific thoughts about specific works, and the philosophy behind their art.

    Be original in your posts by not repeating material already posted. Include your thoughts, and feelings, along with specific references to your research.

    Here is a starting list, but you can add more by researching the topic online. Here is a wonderful new website:

    National Museum of African American History and Culture

    https://nmaahc.si.edu/

    Here is just one of the thousand works in the Museum’s Collection. It is by one of the great american painters who happens to be African American:

    Henry Ossawa Tanner 19th Century artist of faith

    http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Co...info.1919.html

    Kerry James Marshall  

    http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/kerry-james-marshall

    Chris Ofili        “Holy Virgin Mary”

    https://courses.lumenlearning.com/masteryart1-91/chapter/reading-art-in-the-twenty-first-century/

    Crossing Cultures, the artwork of Kehinde Wiley 

    Read     African Influences in Modern Art    

    https://courses.lumenlearning.com/masteryart1-91/chapter/reading-african-influences-in-modern-art/

    Scott Tyler  “The proper Way to Display the American Flag”     http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-dread-scott-us-flag-lecture-ent-0215-20160212-column.html    

    Kara Walker            “Marvelous Sugar Baby”   

    https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/12/a...ino-plant.html

    Romare Bearden      Modern Painter

    https://courses.lumenlearning.com/masteryart1-91/chapter/reading-modern-storytellers-romare-bearden-jacob-lawrence-faith-ringgold/

    Jacob Lawrence     “The Great Migration”

    Gordon Parks           Photographer_Poet                   https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collec.../search/270141

    The Artists in           “The Harlem Renaissance”       https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/harlem/harlem.html

    Velasquez                   Portrait of Juan de Pareja       https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collec.../search/437869

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