Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) Harlem Renaissance artist, one of the first African-American female painters to achieve fame internationally #womensart… Laila Shawa, Posters and Prints at Art.com. #WOMENSART sur Twitter : "Pauline Boty (1938-1966), Pop art artist, co-founder and one of few woman of the British Pop art movement. The artists died aged only 28 as she was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant and refused treatment to save her baby #wome. The Power of Multimodal Art and Film to Engage Students. African Influences in Modern Art. During the early 1900s, the aesthetics of traditional African sculpture became a powerful influence among European artists who formed an avant-garde in the development of modern art. In France, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and their School of Paris friends blended the highly stylized treatment of the human figure in African sculptures with painting styles derived from the post-Impressionist works of Cézanne and Gauguin.
The resulting pictorial flatness, vivid color palette, and fragmented Cubist shapes helped to define early modernism. While these artists knew nothing of the original meaning and function of the West and Central African sculptures they encountered, they instantly recognized the spiritual aspect of the composition and adapted these qualities to their own efforts to move beyond the naturalism that had defined Western art since the Renaissance. In The Autobiography of Alice B. Smithsonian NMAAHC sur Twitter : "Mickalene Thomas’s paintings and photographs evoke elements of 1970s black culture—from the backdrops, clothing, and hairstyles. Follow our Instagram Story @nmaahc for more #HiddenHerstory from the @WomenInTheArts collect. Adding a layer of charcoal stenciling over the top of our printed photographs today. Positive & negative space, tra-digital mixed media □ #iphoneography #edtech #artsed #makered…
22-year-old artist Aisha Mohamed reinvents Van Gogh’s paintings with Black women — and they’re stunning. The most important black woman sculptor of the 20th century deserves more recognition by @KeishaBlain.