Jacob Lawrence And The Migration of the Negro
What makes Jacob Lawrence’s artwork powerful is that it is a voice of Black people and offers a complete view of the African American experience. It goes without saying that Mr. Lawrence presents the lives of his people through highly skilled paintings and artistry, yet he is not only a painter. Because of the material and manner in which Jacob Lawrence paints, he is an activist, storyteller and philosopher. The images in just one of his paintings dare to say what most people are afraid to acknowledge, generate flashbacks and the emotions that accompany flashbacks, and make one dissect and investigate their convictions.Jacob Lawrence was the firs African American artist to receive sustained support from mainstream art museums. Even before he was 21, Mr. Lawrence had made a name for himself as an artist who would reveal and declare the importance of the African American Experience. In 1939 his series of panels of Haitian general, Toussaint L’Overture, was shown in an exhibit of African-American artists so-sponsored by the Harmon Foundation and he Baltimore Museum of Art. (Lewis, pg. 129) Lawrence’s narrative series about the dynamic abolitionist Frederick Douglass and angelic free
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