Category: Black American artists

• Artist Betye Saar tells ghost stories

  

  Saar creates hauntingly beautiful works of art that seduce us into thinking deeply about racism. Notably, she is one of the first American artists to focus on the chasm between the colonizer and the colonized.

  Diane Tucker

  2023-09-01

  Art History, Black American artists, Social and Political Struggles, The Shy Museumgoer, Women artists

  African American Art, Art About Slavery, Artist Betye Saar, Arts writer Diane Tucker, Betye Saar, Lullaby assemblage, Betye Saar | I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break, Saar, Gliding Into Midnight, Spiritualism in Art

• Why isn’t Norman Lewis famous?

  

  Abstract Expressionism, the first American art style to achieve global recognition, celebrates the limitlessness of creativity. But limitless for whom? How many Black abstract expressionists can you name?

  Diane Tucker

  2023-01-16

  Art History, Black American artists, Modern Art, Social and Political Struggles, The Shy Museumgoer

  Arts writer Diane Tucker, Black Abstract Expressionists, First Black abstract expressionist, Norman Lewis, Norman Lewis vs Jackson Pollock, Norman Lewis, Evening Rendezvous, Norman Lewis, Untitled (Alabama) analysis