Study Guide for Quiz #2

Below are nine images from which I will choose the five slide identifications on Quiz #2:

The Banjo Lesson

Henry Ossawa Tanner

1893

 Aspiration

Aaron Douglas

1936

 African Dancer

Richmond Barthé

1933

Angel

Wiliam Edmondson

1932-37

 Migration of the Negro, Panel 1: During the World War there was a Great Migration North by Southern Negroes

Jacob Lawrence

1940-41

Harlem Turns White
Norman Lewis
1955

 Rocket to the Moon
Romare Bearden
1971

The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

Betye Saar

1972

Below are three essay topics from which I will choose the one for Quiz #2

1. In the early decades of the 20th Century, African American leaders like W.E.B. Dubois and Alain Locke issued a call to African American artists to create a new "black aesthetic" that would "uplift the race" and deliberately reconnect with the traditional and ancient arts of Africa.  Name two of the artists who made work aimed at answering this call and describe how each did so.
2. Define Primitivism and tell how it is demonstrated in at least two artworks that you have seen in class.
3. Describe the prominent artistic style of the WPA/FAP and explain what changes Archibald Motley, Jr. made to his stylistic approach when he painted Picnic as a government commission.