Short list of new contemporary artists
The gap: Blackness and Contemporary African-American Artists
I think I got it. The clues are in the art works. Flipping through page after page of Google images on various contemporary artists I’ve realized that this new school of black artists are approaching the issues of blackness by showing the integration of what it means to be an African in America 400 years later. Our new school of African American artists have taken it upon themselves to continue commenting on the nature of the Black experience. As I look at their works I find many of them have scored through history looking for the ways to re-assign power back to black folks. Some of them have painted their interpretation of African history, others have appropriated and manipulated entire art and history genres. As I begin to collect more information on black contemporary artists I find that I will be able to decode the mystery of black culture and aid my people into seeing the bigger picture of how powerful we are as a group; Africans, Black folks and African Diaspora cats.
List of artists [ORGANIZED CHRONOLOGICALLY]:
Martin Puryear
Barkley Hendricks
Jean Michel Basquiat
Gary Simmons
Lorna Simpson
Carrie Mae Weems
Laylah Ali
Rodney McMillan
Jeff Sonhouse
Kara Walker
Glenn Ligon
Kehinde Wiley
Rashid Johnson
Wangechi Mutu
William Pope.L
Shinique Smith
Henry Taylor
Mickalene Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas
Dawn Okoro
Michi
Amber Carroll
Fahamu Pecou
Blake Hicks
THE LIST IS GROWING.
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