#black contemporary art

[manufactoriel]

“It’s Better in The Bahamas” (1978), by Sandford Sawyer

#Sandford Sawyer #photographie #photography #black contemporary art #carribean art #art #bahamas

[toutpetitlaplanete]

Didier William - Plonje (Dive), 2023

#Didier William #James Fuentes Gallery #art #contemporary art #black american artists #black artists #black contemporary art

[ikilledskye]

🌼”Girl Backed Into A Corner”🌼 ~Oil and Swarovski crystals (in the center of the black eyed susans) on panel; 72 x 48”

Once again ~#Skye Volmar W: SkyeVolmar.com S:@SkyeVolmar

#i dont want anyone to find me on here #but i also want my art to exist on tumblr #so here goes #art #artist #contemporary art #contemporary artists #black contemporary art #black contemporary artists #black art #black artist #black artists #painting #oil painting #figurepainting #drawing

[textbasedart]

Glenn Ligon - Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against A Sharp White Background), 1992

#text art #contemporary art #text based art #glenn ligon #black contemporary art

[lovefya]

PORTRAIT OF A BLACK WOMAN : The Realist View of Art

PORTRAIT OF A BLACK WOMAN

“Portrait d’une femme noir,” Marie-Guillemine Benoist, 1800

An unknown black woman sits for artist Marie-Guillemine Benoist. (The painting’s name means “Portrait of a Black Woman,” or “Portrait of a Negress.”) The black woman wears a white headwrap and small gold earrings complimenting her beautiful onyx skin. She appears semi naked, bearing her breast.  Her eyes are looking into your soul. Poised for the painter, she appears to have a strong presence and yet a soft innocence in her effort to deliver art. This portrait was painted in 1800, a time when the art world was male dominated. There are few works by women painters at the Louvre Museum. The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the world's most-visited museum, and a historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the Mona Lisa.  Marie-Gillemine Benoist, the young artist, proved herself worthy of recognition in this work, with realism and detail. The plain background enhances the strong contrasting detail, and smooth brushstrokes.  Her style of portraiture is painted in the neoclassical style after her teacher, Jacques-Louis David. Some characteristics of neoclassical art are symmetry. unemotional telling of events. simplicity of line, form, and color. The proponents of realism in this portrait of a black woman are crisp, sharp, and very much as if looking at a photo, that could be categorized as photorealism. The human eye appeal is remarkable, especially looking into the human eye of the model. The model she chose is an unknown black woman, a former slave, at a time when the abolition of slavery was a major issue, the young artist was also taking a stand, and from the look in her eyes, the young model as well.  Everything about this artwork is epic.  Beyoncé featuring the artwork in her video “APES**T”, making it even more epic!  A woman artist, and black model- the subject of this painting- is very rare during the mid-20th century and western culture. Even more so, the message that this piece delivers is multi-dimensional. Everything about this painting is a movement of protest. Realist theories of art direct our attention back to how the picture was made and how and why we take it to be “real”.  In realism as a philosophy we look at Plato and Aristotle who remind us that of any work of art, we can and should ask if it is “true”.

IS IT TRUE? NO. Plato believed that all art is imitative of nature and that art could be so alluring or enjoyable that it could be potentially dangerous and must come under scrutiny.  To Plato, imitations are not necessarily the real thing and can appeal to emotions, while communicating a lie. To Plato, these emotions could affect our moral compass. Beauty for Plato is represented in fine moral character vs fine eye appeal.  Plato places a focus on the psychological aspects of art. His beauty of reason is that art is for the service of higher good in the physical world and the invisible world. Plato, however, was particularly worried about the pleasures of Realistic art. 

IS IT TRUE?  IT CAN BE. Aristotle on the other hand does not believe in that heaven. His reality is the natural world. Like Plato, Aristotle agrees that art is imitation, but that we find all we need that is already given to us in nature. We simply find universal or archetypal representation in art. Termed mimetic art, Aristotle simply believes that it can represent any of three things: actually reality, beliefs about reality, or perceptions about what reality should be. Mimetic art serves to beautify, improve, and generalize qualities of nature. These successful representations should engage our attention and emotions as if they were the real thing. For Aristotle the art should invite the viewer to think about it because of the way the artist presented it for perceptual experience. Aristotle embodied beauty as something functional and appealing. For Aristotle there is no one (Platonic) form of beauty. For him beauty is form and the form of beauty is integration of all parts. Beauty can not be achieved in independent values, all elements make the whole. The proportion and form can not be discovered without cognitive discernment and dependence of each element to the whole. Every element unifies to create the art. Realistic representation, however, for Aristotle was always from the artist’s point of view. 

REALISM. Like Aristotle believed, most people do find pleasure in realistic art. This art is to be admired, but like Plato, the pleasure principle could have caused an uproar at the time, and even now as the black woman is not often seen solely as a piece of art. She is often objectified and placed on a pedestal for display, but she gets little to no credit. Her name is forgotten, her talents are taken and she is taboo. A fetish of sorts for those that want to sleep with her, those that want her time and labor while they reap the benefits. Realism directs one’s attention to the subject matter of the artwork: the unknown black woman. Realism encourages you to look at realistic representations as transparent windows into the world, with no personal or cultural interventions. Plato thought that those realistic representations could be misunderstood and lead viewers astray in search of pleasures. Aristotle gathered other criteria when judging art, more importantly, its contribution to true knowledge. True knowledge. Like Aristotle, I think this art is true because of its contribution to true knowledge. The knowledge that this woman was a former slave and she is unknown. The reality of her presence makes you search for her truth. The realism of the portrait by Marie-Guillemine Benoist is direct, your focus and your eyes meet the unknown black woman. The portrait takes on a cognitive and aesthetic importance.  

Andria Jones-  Philosophy of the Arts

References

Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “Apeshit” Video Shows Black Bodies in Control - Racked

Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Louvre Highlights

Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art by Terry Barrett | Goodreads

#lovefya #youtube #quoteblogger #beyonce #jay z #philosophyofthearts #apeshit #wemadeit #blackwoman #portrait #realisminart #realism #Youtube #bey #black art #black tumblr #black culture #black contemporary art #slave woman #slavery #abolishedslavery

[v3nusl0c]

Zanele Muholi 2019

#contemporaryart #black artist #black contemporary art

[imthefailedartist]

Highlights from Game Changers: Sam Gillam and his Contemporaries

S, 1970

Paper Theater, 1991

Coal and Taper, 1977

Red Slatt, 2003

I don't have the label for this.

December, 1988

A few of the Contemporaries

Raymond Saunders; This and That of What Wants to be Beauty, 2005

Mildred Thompson: Untitled, no date

Betye Saar; Return to Dreamtime, 1990

#mott warsh Gallery #charles stewart mott #contemporary art #sam gillam #black artist #black contemporary art #abstract art

[hookupgallery]

Kissing Goddesses

#blackboymagic #black art #film photography #black artist #black contemporary art

[blackportraiturecollective]

#blackportraiture #black contemporary art #black figurative art

[manufactoriel]

Sin título [Untilted], from the serie Bastidores , 1997, by Rosana Paulino

#rosana paulino #art #black art #black contemporary art #contemporary art #brazil #brazilian art #afro latino art #sao paulo

[mcpirita]

Works by Ozy Worldy 

#ozy worldy #art #painter #contemporary artist #contemporary art #modern art #contemporary painting #paintings #italy #jean michel basquiat #artwork #oil painting #scary #thought provoking #black man #black magic

[dreams-in-blk]

Gail Shaw-Clemons

#dreams in blk #black tumblr #black beauty #black girl magic #black fashion model #poc aesthetic #moodboard #black people #black women #art post #black contemporary art #contemporary art #african art

[ikilledskye]

*I see how you look at me* 🙇‍♀️

60.25 x 44.75”

Charcoal

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W: SkyeVolmar.com

S: @SkyeVolmar

#skye volmar #contemporary art #contemporary artist #i keep waiting for one of you to post my work #sigh #seems like i gotta do the honor #black contemporary art #black art #Black artists #black contemporary artists #painting #realistic drawing #charcoal #drawing #idk #if you were meant to see it so be it

[alphacmt]

Ever wonder how your work would look like in a more upscale setting? Presented as premium works or accents that exude luxury? I did.

So I tried some art staging. And I learned some things along the way. I always thought I was a minimalist, but when scoping out upscale interior environments I found out quickly my work looks best in lived in, eclectic spaces that effectively used objects to sell a aspirational lifestyle. Which is ironic to say the least, considering my personal ideology and aesthetics.

So for the record, before doing it the hard way I peeped several apps that you could use to stage your work in various home decor spaces. I opted not do that do due to the bait and switch tactics of the apps. They bait you with great photos of spaces, but the switch comes when you find out the "free" side of the apps only have the most basic of set ups. That beautiful living room that they lured you with in the first place? There's a monthly subscription fee for that.

Look, everyone's' personal financial situation is different, but me personally? I'm not trying to hear that.

So we're doing it the hard way. I scour Instagram for modern living spaces that speak to me and I get to work. And with Clip Studio Paint I go all in, adding frames and mattes, shadows, and in some cases adding reflections and adjusting light sources. Admittedly, it can take a little bit of time, but I find the process weirdly cathartic and relaxing.

Doing it the hard way actually turned out to be a good thing. You see, I credit and tag the original interior designers and photographers. And whenever I can, I use Black and People of Color interior designers as inspiration. It's been a great way to break the ice, and every interior designer has loved what I've done with my art remixed in their spaces. Who knows? Future art staging collabs with designers I love and respect? Win win baby!

Anyhoo, here's a few of my favorite art staging works! Enjoy

#popart #artstaging #black contemporary art #contemporaryart #interiordesign #lifystyle

[reasoningdaily]

The Revolutionary Paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat

There is something particularly poignant to me, as well as being a perfect example of fame exploiting creatives, regarding the story of the groundbreaking, African-American neo-artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. 

The man who produced these mysterious paintings consisting of scratches and scribbles of colour, strange diagrams, various words, letters and numbers meticulously placed in a constellation of imagery would be unlike anything the art world had yet seen. And most importantly, they would unveil a huge social flaw that up until his time, was not yet discussed or resolved in the art world as well. 

In a community that seemingly still clung onto the influence of caucausian European history and lore, by the 1980s Jean-Michel would in the most creative ways possible, implement his both his Porteguese and Haitian roots into his work, in an admirable effort to at last allow black culture to become part of art history.

Although his legacy now has been globally influential more than possibly Jean-Michel would have imagined, his life before his eventual untimely death, aged just 27, would be nothing short of heartbreaking. 

Although he obtained all the fame and money he could have dreamed of, it would still not be enough to achieve the one thing he wanted above all else, which was for people to accept him. 

Although his fascinating career was sadly brief, his whole story shines an invaluable light on how sensationalism can truly exploit the vulnerable, and how irrefutably difficult it would be for a young talent in the 1980s to prove his significance and overturn misconceptions of him, simply based on his background and the colour of his skin. Today we explore, the now what could be called, Revolutionary Artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

#Jean Michel Basquiat #The Revolutionary Paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat #Black Contemporary Art #Black Artists #Basquiat #Revolution in Black Art

[freshthoughts2020]

FIRST FRIDAY: 🎨Join Us for an Artful Soirée on September 1st! 🎉

🎉 Exciting News! 🎨

Mark your calendars for an unforgettable evening of art and inspiration at the Murphy Arts Center, Future Friends HMC Art Gallery.

🗓 Date: Friday, September 1, 2023 🕕 Time: 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM 📍 Location: 1043 Virginia Ave, Suite 213

Join me, Jaevonn Harris, and an incredible lineup of fellow artists for a captivating showcase. From my latest creations to the stunning works of other talented artists, you're in for an artistic journey like no other.

Indulge in the world of creativity, shop unique art merchandise, and connect with like-minded art enthusiasts. It's an evening designed to celebrate passion and imagination.

Your presence would be the perfect brushstroke to this canvas of creativity. I can't wait to share this experience with you.

See you there! 🎨🖼🥂

#first friday #future friends hmc #future friends #jaevonn #jaevonn harris #murphy arts center #pop art #black contemporary art