Celebrate black history month!Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : One way to celebrate Black History Month is to focus on the contributions and accomplishments of African-American artists while investigating basic human and cultural commonalities. This assumes, however, that February is not the only time of year we introduce the work of artists of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color . Jacob Lawrence's Journey Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Life Lawrence is probably among the best-known twentieth century African American painters, a distinction also shared by Romare Bearden. grew up during the Great Depression in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . As a teenager, he enrolled in after-school art classes. His teachers encouraged him to work hard as an artist. Lawrence loved to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see artworks This article is about the software drawing application. For art objects, see work of art. ArtWorks is an advanced vector drawing package for RISC OS created by Computer Concepts (now Xara) in 1991. It has been developed by MW Software since 1996. from all over the world. He particularly liked the artworks that told stories. The young artist spent many hours in the library. There, he read about the kingdoms of Africa and about heroic African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. . He was always interested in people--what they cared about and what they accomplished. The more he learned, the more he wanted to find a way to tell the rest of us about their lives. Retelling re·tell·ing n. A new account or an adaptation of a story: a retelling of a Roman myth. History in Art The challenge for any storyteller is to tell a story in such a way that an audience stays interested. Lawrence met this challenge by working with brightly colored paint to create pleasing shapes and patterns for the characters and settings in his paintings. If a story had too many parts to tell in one image, Lawrence created a series of several paintings. The artworks on these pages show you two examples from a series he created. Before he began a series, Lawrence first had to decide how to attract his audience's attention. Then he decided what to show as the story continued, and how to bring it to an interesting end. The artist's paintings seem like little stages where action takes place, just like in a theater. Sharing Stories People have been sharing stories with their friends and family for thousands of years. The very young, the very old, and all those between, love to hear stories. Stories allow us to visit faraway far·a·way adj. 1. Very distant; remote. 2. Abstracted; dreamy: a faraway look. faraway Adjective 1. very distant 2. lands, meet fascinating characters, and imagine the way people lived in the past. When a storyteller tells a tale, we follow the words and create pictures in our mind. Some storytellers create the actual pictures for us. Artist Jacob Lawrence, is known for telling stories based on the lives of people who lived and worked in the past. In this chapter, you will learn about Jacob Lawrence and other artists who have discovered the power of images to continue the ancient art of storytelling Storytelling Aesop semi-legendary fabulist of ancient Greece. [Gk. Lit.: Harvey, 10] Münchäusen Baron traveler grossly embellishes his experiences. [Ger. Lit. . "I wanted to tell a story ... so I did it in panels." Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) Plotting Pictures When Jacob Lawrence decided to paint a series, he created the story's plot in pictures, sketching each scene with a pencil on sketch paper. After copying the sketches onto paper or board, Lawrence chose all the colors. He used one color at a time to paint the images. He painted the first color on all the boards. Then he added the second color, then the third, and so on, until he finished the images. By using many of the same colors in all the boards, he created a series of images that look as though they belong together. Lawrence used this system of working whenever he made a series of pictures. The text and illustrations on this spread are excerpted from Theme One: Artists as Storytellers in the middle school textbook textbook Informatics A treatise on a particular subject. See Bible. , Art: A Personal Journey by Eldon Katter and Marilyn G. Stewart, Davis Publications, Inc. 2002. |
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