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The Judgment Day

  • Entstehungsdatum1939
  • Abmessungen138.0 x 107.0 cm

Aaron Douglas (1899 – 1979)

Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) war ein bedeutender Künstler der Harlem Renaissance, bekannt für seine kraftvollen Wandmalereien und Illustrationen, die Rasse, Segregation und afroamerikanische Identität in kubistischen und Art-Deco-Stilen thematisieren. Ein einflussreicher moderner Maler und Pädagoge.

A winged person blowing a horn stands silhouetted in lilac purple against a field of alternating celery and muted lime-green bands in this abstracted vertical painting. The person’s body is angled toward us but they look over their shoulder, to our left in profile, as they hold a horn to their lips. The horn reaches into the top left corner of the composition, and the wings extend off the top edge of the canvas. A shallowly curving slit indicates the eye. The person stands with each foot on two rounded forms like stylized hills. The mound on our right is higher so the knee is bent, and the person holds a skeleton key in the hand propped on that knee. The hill to our right has wavy bands of muted pine and sage green, and the hill to our left has a zigzag line of the sage across the darker green. Farther from us, four people, smaller in scale, are outlined as amethyst-purple silhouettes. One person to our right of the angel kneels and raises their hands high overhead, face turned to the sky. Two more people standing on or behind the left mound are framed between the trumpeter’s legs. The fourth person stands with hands clasped, also looking up. Concentric arcs of lemon yellow and pale green suggest a sun in the upper left corner. The artist signed and dated the work with dark green paint in the lower right corner: “A. Douglas ’39.”

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