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104_Harlem_in_the_1920s.mp4You will begin building understanding of the Harlem Renaissance by watching a segment of a film that your teacher will share with you. Your purpose for watchingthis film is to help you develop an answer to Essential Question 1: How do cultural movements such as the Harlem Renaissance reflect and create people's attitudes and beliefs? Take notes on this film and the rest of the research sources provided.
About the Artist: Augusta Savage
About the Artist: Augusta Savage
Augusta Savage (1892–1962)—artist, activist, and educator—was born in Green Cove Springs, Florida. An important African American artist, Savage began making art as a child using the natural clay found in her community. She liked to sculpt animals and other small figures. But her father, a Methodist minister, did not approve of this activity and did whatever he could to stop her. Savage once said that her father “almost whipped all the art out of me.”
Art: Lift Every Voice and Sing
About the Artist: Lois Mailou Jones
About the Artist: Lois Mailou Jones
In the 1930s, the art of Lois Mailou Jones (1905–1998) reflected the influences of African traditions. She designed African-style masks and in 1938 painted Les Fétiches1, which depicts masks in five distinct ethnic styles. During a year in Paris, she produced landscapes and figure studies, but African influences reemerged in her art in the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly after two tours of Africa.
Art: Les Fetiches
About the Artist: Aaron Douglas
About the Artist: Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas (1899–1979) was an African American painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. His first major commission, to illustrate Alain Locke's book The New Negro, prompted requests for graphics from other Harlem Renaissance writers. By 1939, Douglas started teaching at Fisk University, where he remained for the next 27 years.
Art: Shine for Thy Light Has Come!
About the Artist: Palmer C. Hayden
About the Artist: Palmer C. Hayden
Palmer C. Hayden (1890–1973) was born Peyton Hedgeman in Wide Water, Virginia. He took his artistic name from the corrupted pronunciation of Peyton Hedgeman by a commanding sergeant during World War I. Hayden was among the first African American artists to use African subjects and designs in his painting.
Art: Midsummer Night in Harlem
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