Aaron Douglas

Art of the Harlem Renaissance, the resulting dynamic twenties and thirties of the last century, during which the African American art exploded onto the streets of New York, is inspiring and a hundred years later as proof of nesalomivosti African-American spirit. Aron Douglas (Aaron Douglas), by an extremely active and illustrator of this period, provides a significantly higher than that. He was not only the first major African-American modernists, but modernists who became completely equal with their contemporaries all over America and Europe (which is pushing was black). Twenties of the last century, African-Americans are massively migrating from rural areas in the southern industrial cities of northern USA. In the new environment growing up the first generation of black artists, intellectuals and political activists, and New York’s Harlem was the center of this frenetic activity. Art of the Harlem Renaissance was marked by an unusual dualism: black creators also wanted to show that they can compete with their white peers and teachers, but also to create an independent art that would be authentically black. Creativity Aaron Douglas can be studied both chronologically and thematically, because his art was visibly inspired by life experiences and each new stage in the biography of the artist represented a new phase in his work. The earliest known work of Douglas illustration Sunflower in 1917. Although not particularly impressive, its dark and vibrant colors predict future works that will represent the characteristics of the spirit of African or African bar as it was imagined white artists – with vibrant, bright colors, strong contrasts, netaktnutu civilization. After studying Douglas gets a job at the high school for black children in Kansas, but this work leaves unsatisfied and he moved to Harlem, where independent African-American publishing more flourishing and where William Edward bergart “WEB” Du Bois is already working on the identification of the “New black person. ” In an essay under the name Du Bois describes the new spirit of the African American community formed the experience of the First World War. In the new century, having been as fully equal sharing trenches with white citizens, blacks should advocate for their rights with full confidence to assert their own personalities and they take pride in African heritage and aesthetics. In Harlem Douglas began working illustrations for newspaper Opportunity deliberately seeking to cooperate only with other African-American authors, and his prints from this period because of its style can be called Afro-Cubist. They were inspired by the romanticized vision of Africa and the new musical direction that could be heard from every corner of New York – blues. At the same time, the artist participated in the launch of the magazine called symptomatic FIRE !!, in which the illustrations apparently were based on Egyptian art. At this time Egypt had a great importance in the imagination of black intellectuals who believe that blacks are the heirs of great African civilizations. This is, of course, a response to the racist attitude that African-Americans will not be able to create a significant culture after being in the freedom given the opportunity to do so. A mixture of black and red colors used to look like inscriptions on the pyramids, and sometimes the vision of black Baptist pastor who preached in a trance. The magazine had only one edition and was met with criticism in harlemskoj community because the content is not considered to be sufficiently sophisticated, although dealing with a very tricky issues for the period, with an emphasis on the male form is condemned as decadent (read: homosexual). Bela criticism, however, does not notice !! FIRE.

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