Library Series: The Schomburg
Jacob Lawrence (1917 – 2000)
"meta_description": "Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was een baanbrekend Amerikaans kunstenaar, bekend om zijn 'dynamische kubisme' en krachtige beelden van zwarte levenservaringen, geschiedenis en sociale rechtvaardigheid. Bekend door de 'Migration Series'."
SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, Verenigde Staten van Amerika)
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American painter Jacob Lawrence is best known for depicting narratives of the daily lives and activities of Harlem in his imagery. Lawrence moved to Harlem at the age of 13; it was there that he witnessed the poverty and prejudice most African Americans faced in the early 20th century. However, it was also where he was exposed to the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Subsequently, the vibrant energy of this movement radiates from the canvases created by Lawrence. In Library Series: The Schomburg, Lawrence has captured the motion and liveliness of a library that he most likely spent numerous hours in during his childhood. Within the image, each figure in the canvas is immersed in their reading materials, engaged in an activity.
Over dit kunstwerk
- Titel: Library Series: The Schomburg
- Kunstenaar: Jacob Lawrence
- Jaar: 1986
- Formaat: Portrait
- Auteursrechtelijke status: Onder auteursrechtelijke bescherming
- Te zien in: SCAD Museum of Art
- Stroming: Cubism
- Medium: Oil On Canvas
- Hoofdkleur: Rosy Brown
- Doelstelling: Cultural
Snelle feiten
- Artistic style: Dynamic cubism
- Medium: Oil paint
- Notable elements or techniques: Cubist style, impasto brushstrokes
- Title: Library Series: The Schomburg