- Draw your picture on the muslim and use oil pastels and watercolors to add color.
- Cut out squares & rectangles and use oil pastels & paint with patterns
- Glue the picture you painted on black felt and the squares and rectangles you painted around the painting.
- If you want you can sew the squares for extra credit.
4 artists: AFRICAN AMERICAN ART HISTORY
1. G.W. Hobbs, was among the earliest known portrait artists, from the period of 1773–1887. He was the first African American to paint a portrait of another African American. HARRIET POWERS, known as the "mother of African-American quilting," was born into slavery in Athens, Georgia on October 29, 1837 (died in 1911). She married Armstead Powers, and her first daughter Amanda was born in 1855 when Harriet was 18. Southern Negro women slaves were often trained as expert seamstresses and Harriet was probably instructed in the craft of appliqué quilt making by her mother.
1. G.W. Hobbs, was among the earliest known portrait artists, from the period of 1773–1887. He was the first African American to paint a portrait of another African American. HARRIET POWERS, known as the "mother of African-American quilting," was born into slavery in Athens, Georgia on October 29, 1837 (died in 1911). She married Armstead Powers, and her first daughter Amanda was born in 1855 when Harriet was 18. Southern Negro women slaves were often trained as expert seamstresses and Harriet was probably instructed in the craft of appliqué quilt making by her mother.
There are just two quilts by Harriet Powers that have come down to us (both created after she was freed from slavery following the Civil War), but they are among the most famous and revered works of art in the history of African American folk art. The magical story of how Harriet Powers' story Bible quilts came to be known and preserved has been told many times. Each panel in Harriet Powers' quilts tells a story of its own and can be viewed and studied like a painting. And so although we have only two quilts, they are comprised of 26 panels in all, eleven for the first and fifteen for the second. Mrs. Powers' art is truly powerful and yet playful, warmly innocent and yet full of spiritual wisdom -- her panel-stories are rightly credited as masterworks of American folk art.
2. The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most notable movements in African-American art. Between 1920-1930 and outburst of creativity among African American occurred in every aspect of art. This cultural movement became known as "The New Negro Movement" later the "Harlem Renaissance. African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become "The New Negro" a term coined in 1925. Aaron Douglas (1899-1979)" let's bare our arms and plunge them deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of our people and drag forth material crude, rough, neglected. Then let's sing it, dance it, write it, paint it. Let's do the impossible” Aaron Douglas completed sketches in preparation for a mural he painted under WPA sponsorship fir the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library in Harlem. The four-panel series Aspects of Negro Life tracks the journey of African Americans from freedom in Africa to enslavement in the United States and from liberation after the Civil War to life in the modern city.
3. Jacob Lawrence, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, was born in 1917 and is best known for his series of narrative paintings depicting important moments in African American history. Lawrence was introduced to art when in his early teens, Lawrence's mother enrolled him in Utopia Children's Center, which provided an after-school art program in Harlem. By the mid-1930s, he was regularly participating in art programs at the Harlem Art Workshop and the Harlem Community Art Center where he was exposed to leading African American artists of the time. At the community art centers, Lawrence studied African art, Aaron Douglas's paintings and African American history. With the help and encouragement of Augusta Savage, Lawrence secured a scholarship to the American Artists School and later gained employment with the WPA, working as a painter in the easel division. Lawrence began painting in series format in the late 1930s, completing 41 paintings on the life of a revolutionary who established the Haitian Republic. Other series followed on the lives of the abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown. The Migration of the Negro, one of his best-known series, was completed in 1941. The most widely acclaimed African American artist of this century, Lawrence continued to paint until his death in 2000.
4 Faith Ringgold If One Can Anyone Can. All you Gotta Do Is Try!!
Faith Ringgold, has used her art to voice her opinions on racism and gender inequality. Faith Ringgold, born in 1930 in Harlem, attended the City College of New York where she received her BS and her MA in Fine Arts. In 1967, Ringgold created a series, The American People, which focused on racial conflict and discrimination. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts, an art form that combines story telling and quilt making. During the 1960s, Ringgold painted flat, figures that focused on the racial conflicts; depicting everything from riots to parties, which resulted in her "American People" series, showing the female view of the Civil Rights Movement Ringgold began quilted artworks in 1980; her first quilt being "Echoes of Harlem." She quilted her stories in order to be heard, since at the time no one would publish her autobiography. "Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima?" (1983) is a quilt showing the story of Aunt Jemima as a matriarch restaurateur. Standards
- Content Standard #3
- 5-8 Students use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks
- Content Standard #4 Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
- 5-8 Students know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures
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