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.

Slide Images for November 9

 The “Little Rock Nine” students integrated into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, escorted by soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division

1959

 Cover of Time Magazine

September 27, 1963

 Governor George Wallace attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama by standing in the door.

June 11, 1963

 Martin Luther King, Jr.

1929-1968 (assassinated)

Malcom X

1925-1965 (assassinated)

 Examples of Civil Disobedience

Examples of Confrontation & Self Defense

 Prevalence of Ritual: Mysteries

Romare Bearden

1964

Three Folk Musicians

Romare Bearden

1967

 Three Musicians

Pablo Picaso

1921

Rocket to the Moon

Romare Bearden

1971

 The Dance

Emilio Cruz

1962

 Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music

Alma Thomas

1976

 Swing

Sam Gilliam

1969

Arch

Sam Gilliam

1971

Terms of the Day for November 9

• The African-American Civil Rights Movement – a collection of social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them.  The movement was most active during a period from 1955-68.
• Spiral – a collective of AfricanAmerican artists initially formed by Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, Norman Lewis, and Hale Woodruff on July 5, 1963. The artists in the group were moved to come together and discuss their own engagement in the struggle for civil rights, even though each found engagement in a different way. 
• Washington Color School – a Washington, DC-based visual art movement of the late 1950s through the mid-1970s which was related  to abstract expressionism but made attempts to be much more minimal and structured than abstract expressionism.  Members of the movement referred to themselves as “Colorists”.

Slide Images for November 4

 Slow Down Freight Train

Rose Piper

1946

 Art of the Negro: Native Forms

Hale A. Woodruff

1950-51

 Afro Emblems

Hale A. Woodruff

1950

 Blue Intrusion

Hale A. Woodruff

1958

 Every Atom Glows: Electrons In Luminous Vibration

Norman Lewis

1951

 Harlem Turns White

Norman Lewis

1955

 Evening Rendezvous

Norman Lewis

1962

 Blue is the Smoke of War, White the Bones of Men

Romare Bearden

c. 1960

…I Have A Special Fear for My Loved Ones

Elizabeth Catlett

1946

Sharecropper

Elizabeth Catlett

1952

O, Mary, Don’t You Weep

Charles White

1964

Terms of the Day for November 4

• The Baby Boom –  in the United States, this term most often refers to the post-World War II baby boom (1946–1964). An estimated 78.3 million Americans were born during this demographic boom in births.
• Abstract Expressionism – the first specifically American art movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, it combined the emotional intensity of German Expressionism with the abstraction of Futurism and Synthetic Cubism.

Lecture Slides for November 2

Mutiny Aboard the Amistad, 1839

Hale A. Woodruff

1939

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

Jacob Lawrence

1940-41

Migration of the Negro, Panel 50: Race Riots were Numerous.  White Workers Were Hostile Toward the Migrants Who Had Been Hired to Break Strikes

Jacob Lawrence

1940-41

Migration of the Negro, Panel 57: The female worker was also one of the last groups to leave the South

Jacob Lawrence

1940-41

Café

William H. Johnson

c. 1939-40

Going to Church
William H. Johnson
c. 1940-41

Dinah

Louis Armstrong and his band

c. 1930s

Poster for ‘Cabin in the Sky’

Directed by Vincente Minnelli

1943

Clips from Cabin in the Sky

Directed by Vincente Minnelli

1943

Room No. VII

Eldzier Cortor

1948

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly

James Hampton

c. 1950-64