African American and Harlem Artist Guild Essay

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Harlem Renaissance Research Paper
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Harlem Artist Guild: Negro Art Movement

The 1920’s and 1930’s brought a large amount of change for the colored people, and also the way they were seen. Things were about to drastically change, and the people of Harlem were about to get the chance to show they were capable of the same as everyone else. The “Great Migration” transformed Harlem, New York and was about to change the way the world say it. Black Art and Culture were about to be recognized and appreciated.

The Harlem Artist Guild was founded in 1928, by the artist Aaron Douglas. He was active throughout the Harlem Artist Guild. He was the first president, and also made the Harlem Artist Guild happen. He stood for the colored people, who dreamed of being artist’s but were not taken seriously because of there color and where they were from. Aaron Douglas began working with the WPA (Works Progress Administration), to ensure that African American artists stood the same chance as every other artist.

In his own works Aaron Douglas showed was actually happened around him. He used his own style of arts to express what went on, and how the colored people are Harlem, New York were treated and all that they went through. He displayed his art through the history, and also through the eyes of a black man. These arts also showed how they went through slavery, and over came it. They called these arts Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction.

The Harlem Artist Guild represented and created a new idea for art, and what art can represent. These artists showed the “Aspects of Negro Life” through paintings and paper cutouts. The use of silhouettes also became popular, and