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“Artists today explore ideas, concepts, questions, and practices that examine the past, describe the present, or imagine the future.” Contemporary artists use a dynamic combination of media and technologies, methods, concepts, and subjects to create works that reflects The Human Condition in modern culture and society. Three contemporary artworks that utilise these artistic practices to express The Human Condition are Michael Parekowhai, Tracey Moffatt and Vernon Ah Kee. Each artist has used artistic devices to express the contemporary significance of The Human Condition by creating works that reflect back to their own experience and the history of their nationality.

The intersection of social movements and Art is one that can be observed throughout the civil right movements of America in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The sixties in America saw a substantial cultural and social change through activism against the Vietnam war, women’s right and against the segregation of the African - American communities. Art became a prominent method of activism to advocate the civil rights movement. It was a way to express self-identity as well as the struggle that people went through and by means of visual imagery a way to show political ideals and forms of resistance. To examine how a specific movement can have a profound effects on the visual art, this essay will focus on the black art movement of the 1960s and

Throughout history, societies have defined and transformed themselves through their art. When looking at works of art today, a person sees not only the work of art itself, but also the world from which it came from. The same is true for this transformation mask, which reflects the works of art and beliefs of the Northwest Coast Tribes.

Renee Cox, as an African American woman and artist, uses her body and identity to start a discussion on the Black experience in America. Besides representing a population of minority artists, the female and the non-white, her art has affected society with her brazen approach to her craft. Cox’s significance comes from her open display of race and sex. In many of her pieces, nudity and the celebration of the African American experience is the focus. In addition to this, her medium of choice, mixed media and photography, is opening an outlet of art that isn’t traditionally used. In essence, Renee Cox is an artist that can pave the way for future artists by diversifying through medium, race, and sex.

Society seems to change and advance so rapidly throughout the years but there has always seemed to be a history, present, and future when it comes to the struggles of the African Americans. The hatred of a skin tone has caused people to act in violent and horrifying ways including police brutality, riots, mass incarcerations, and many more. There are three movements the renaissance, civil rights, and the black lives matter movements that we have focused on. Our artist come from different eras but have at least one similarity which is the attention on black art.

Kehinde Wiley’s large-scale, brightly colored, highly patterned portraits of African American subjects are a salute to traditional portraiture as well as a critique of the art historical focus on the privileged male Caucasian. The artist scouts out ordinary black men of ages 18 to 25 from urban settings to copy poses from works by master Western painters like Titian and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The photographs of their poses become Wiley’s references for his enormous, dazzlingly vibrant portraits. The extreme realism of the figure combined with intense color use, decorative patterning, and larger-than-life scale all emphasize the extravagant grandeur of power and male dominance. Wiley has radically shifted the paradigm to make a contemporary statement about the long absence of the black male figure in historical portraiture.

Not long after arriving in New York, Douglas became acquainted with German artist Winold Reiss. He influenced Douglas heavily and encouraged him to look at African-American art for motivation and “develop his own racially representative work.” 1 Reiss believed that an artist should get inspiration from their own experiences and wanted Douglas to identify with his own race.

"...Our problem is to conceive, develop, establish an art era. Not white art painting black...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. Let 's create something transcendentally material, mystically objective. Earthy. Spiritually earthy. Dynamic." - Aaron Douglas.During the time of the harlem renaissance Aaron Douglas used his artwork to take pride in his african american culture. All of his artwork conveyed one common message and that was the role that African Americans played in society. All of this was seen in one of his major artworks which was the “Aspects of Negro Life,” mural on the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library.

Many scholars criticize Neiman’s work because of his splashy, kinetic, and jigsaw-like style however; these critics have failed to fully evaluate Neiman’s work. Neiman is known for capturing many split second moments such as many of Muhammad Ali’s boxing matches and other Olympic events. Receiving much scorn, Neiman’s works are often dismissed for superficiality and garish among the art world. The common misconceptions have failed to acknowledge the discrete hints that reflect the development of African Americans. Leroy Neiman's paintings capture juxtaposition between frustration and aspiration through dramatic brush strokes, contrasting portrayals of community development, and metaphorical placements symbolizing the possibility of opportunity

From a young age, a Black child’s life is characterized by violence and poverty. The books focus largely on violence, specifically police brutality, which is an issue that has persisted through the second half of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first. Shakur highlights the majority of the violence she encountered during the chapters about her time in prison. Being shot multiple times prior to being incarcerated, being manhandled while being escorted in and out of the courtroom are only a few of the abundant examples cited. She also faced other inhumanities, such as when she was pregnant and not receiving proper medical care, including when the prison doctor gave her false reports regarding her health status, malnutrition, and being kept in the filthy basement of an all-male prison. Despite these things, Shakur’s views on violence are somewhat mixed. Throughout her autobiography, a few passages describe how Shakur attacked guards, such as in the instance of them beating Kamau. Additionally, she briefly joined the Black Panther Party, a militant group known for using violence to advance their agenda. Otherwise, Shakur relied on uncooperative forms of resistance when serving her time such as refusing to stop running around in her cell or refusing to eat until she could see her doctor. Coates discusses violence in a much different way, constantly referring

The lives of Baldwin and Delaney illustrate how the focus on light in their art practices aided them in moving forward from an oppressive legacy of racial discrimination to a place of heightened consciousness. Both became less socially and politically vulnerable when they moved to Europe, an environment that accepted them as artists. Yet, Delaney suffered from a psychological condition linked in part to the detrimental

Artworks are all unique and hold very significant meanings to the artist. Each artist’s art is meant to symbolize or represent something whether personally, socially, or universally. Charles W. White’s art, for example, focused on his and other African-Americans’ struggle to live in America during the 20th century. His artworks subjects are mainly about racism and the dignity of African-American’s. For example, in White’s Sound of Silence II it gives strength and courage to African-Americans to take pride in their ethnicity.

The series presented lends form and contemplation to wanderings through this lost wilderness of the mind. Layer by layer, each shape is drawn, organized, and combined with forms culled from topography, sacred geometry, ink blots, Lichtenberg figures, and fractals to create a bizarre bricolage of the natural and the

Where as Kaphar’s deep rooted research and connections to the meaning and significance of the piece makes it more insightful and complex as a drawing. I have also concluded that Richard Deacon’s drawing has no significant meaning at all compared to Kaphar’s but it does give a sense of movement. Kaphar has created a history for all those men that he researched into who were incarcerated, and because of the recent killings of unarmed black men in the United States of America Kaphar has created some politically charged and based art.

My visual is more similar to Vonnegut’s shapes specifically to the “Man in Hole” shape because that shape portrays a plot in which the main character has ill fortune and in the end the character achieves a better fortune. This is what happened in the book written by Maya Angelou called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings because Maya went through very rough times (ill fortune) several times, and each time she managed to get out of her troubles and pains achieving a better fortune. However, Freytag’s pyramid doesn’t portray the shape of the story because Freytag’s pyramid focus in the common elements of dramatic story which basically consists in the exposition, the rising action, climax, falling action, and the denouement. However, I Know Why the