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- Afrocentric art is beautiful. We the children and Descendants of Africans have always told the story of our history and ideas of the future with our art . African art has been a favorite of collectors worldwide.To some price is no option for the ownership of rare artifacts.
The 60's produced an era of legendary artists who had a strong stance on which they stood. Art was not just for decoration or a token of wealth. It was a badge of mental awareness. A statement of freedom and justice in a time of corruption. Art with a purpose.
Today the African born American has to often times choose between both cultures. Many have emerged as a unique new breed holding true to there African Roots while participating in American sub culture. Jazz is one way the African used European instruments to connect with the African sound.
THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK AESTHETIC, 1920-1950
In the early 1920s the awakening spirit of Negritude which encouraged racial pride, a continuing interest in the civilizations of Black Africa, and a redefining of the meaning of the black experience in America stimulated black artists, musicians, writers, and academicians and laid the ground-work for that flourishing era in the arts now called the Negro Renaissance.
In Africa art had been central to man's existence, and one could not be born, come of age, marry, or die without a work of art being made to celebrate that event. Alain Locke urged black American artists to re-establish the position of art at the core of black life and to make art a liberating force for their people. It was also Locke, possibly more than any other black figure, who saw Negritude as a viable force in making the world aware of the cultural contributions that African artists had made to modern art. Of this idea he wrote:
Africa's art creed is beauty in use, vitally rooted in the crafts, and uncontaminated with the blight of the machine. Surely the liberating example of such art will be as marked an influence in the contemporary work of Negro artists as it has been in that of the leading modernists; Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, Epstein, Lipschitz, Brancusi, and others too numerous to mention.
Indeed we may expect even more of an influence because of the deeper and closer appeal of African art to the artist who feels an historical and racial bond between himself and it. For him, it should not function as a novel pattern of eccentricity or an exotic idiom for clever yet imitative adaptation. It should act with all the force of a sound folk art, as a challenging lesson of independent originality or as clues to the reexpression of a half-submerged race soul. African art, therefore, presents to the Negro artist in the New World a challenge to recapture this heritage of creative originality, and to carry it to distinctive new achievement in a vital, new and racially expressive art. - Alan Locke, "The African Legacy and the Negro Artist," in Exhibition of Productions by Negro Artists (New York: Harmon Foundation, 1931), p. 12.
Locke felt the need for other artists to help him visualize the ideas he so firmly believed. However, before realizing these dreams, black artists would need to understand more clearly their own position in American culture, particularly their role as entertainers of the majority culture, and to comprehend the forces affecting their society.
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i also think a trio of leaders would be nice. Three heads better than one.
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