The Harlem Renaissance Art and Early Jazz

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The Harlem Renaissance Art and Early Jazz Take the A Train The Harlem Renaissance Art and Early Jazz

Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance occurred in Harlem, New York in the first part of the 20th century. Black people were migrating north in hope of finding work and leaving the overt racism of the south Black intellectuals wanted to control the new image of the Negro, to demonstrate culture and intelligence of black people, they chose the name Renaissance for their movement intentionally The artists and musicians and writers of the Harlem Renaissance would influence the next century of American Culture.

Art at the time in Europe: In Europe Pairs was the place to be for an artist Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism and Dada were developing American painters, including artists in Harlem, traveled to Paris Picasso, Salvador Dali, and Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were among some of the artists who frequented Paris during this time period. These artists were, in turn, being influenced by the art of Africa

Aaron Douglas: What symbols do you see in this painting? Moving to the city, buying homes, top of the mountain Music and culture jobs Hands reaching out to grab Getting ahead on the wheel of life or moving up to better jobs Aspects of Negro Life #62: Song of the Towers, 1934, oil on canvas

Crucifixion, 1927, oil on canvas

Jazz! What type of music are these people dancing to? William H. Johnson, Jitterbugs 2, 1941 Wood Cut Print

Why would most White people of the Time consider This portrait of a Black man Unusual? It shows a black man as cultured and wearing clothing associated with the affluent or wealthy. William H. Johnson Self Portrait, 1937

What symbols do you see in this painting? Louis Mailou Jones, Ascent of Ethiopia, 1932, Oil on Canvas

Louis Mailou Jones, Portrait of Hudson, 1932, Oil on Canvas

Palmer Hayden, Beale Street Blues, 1930

Romare Bearden, Jazz Village, 1967 This image is made using a technique called collage. What do you think collage means? Romare Bearden, Jazz Village, 1967

Collage: a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.

Romare Bearden Serenade, 1969