For Black History Month-Artists’
Corner-The Work Of Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence first came to widespread
public attention for his series of paintings chronicling the historically significant
migration of blacks out of the Mister James Crow South toward the north which
became a flood after World War I-mainly the industrial towns of the Midwest then.
Going up the Mississippi. Later Lawrence came to evoke the northern urban scene
of the black diaspora. Those later paintings evoke in a dramatic manner the visual
search via iconic Jazz among the folk for the high white note that every musician
worth his or her salt was looking for. Pictured are the workman, the hipster,
the street persona and the respectable too. Thanks Brother Lawrence-there is a
very strong reason that some of your work is enshrined in the Afro-American
History Museum down in Washington fast by the Washington Monument.
from the migration series
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