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  2. List of African-American visual artists - Wikipedia

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    Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...

  3. African-American art - Wikipedia

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    The WPA led to a new wave of important black art professors. Mixed media, abstract art, cubism, and social realism became not only acceptable, but desirable. Artists of the WPA united to form the 1935 Harlem Artists Guild, which developed community art facilities in major cities. Leading forms of art included drawing, sculpture, printmaking ...

  4. List of African-American arts firsts - Wikipedia

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    First African-American Grammy Award winners, in the award's inaugural year: Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie (two awards each) [34] First African-American group to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100: The Platters ("Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"), January 19 (See also: Tommy Edwards, 1958)

  5. List of Hot Crossover 30 number ones - Wikipedia

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    The chart was renamed Top 40/Dance on September 9, 1989, [5] and last published on December 1, 1990. [6] Unlike the guitar-oriented rock music heard on contemporary hit radio stations at the time, songs that appeared on the Hot Crossover 30 were often typified by their up-tempo nature, featured drum machines and electronic keyboards , and had ...

  6. Spiral (arts alliance) - Wikipedia

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    Spiral was a collective of African-American artists initially formed by Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, Norman Lewis, and Hale Woodruff on July 5, 1963. It has since become the name of an exhibition, Spiral: Perspectives on an African-American Art Collective. [1] A few of the paintings on display at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham ...

  7. Category:20th-century African-American painters - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 17 October 2024, at 03:49 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Black Abstractionism - Wikipedia

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    The glaring omission of Black artists is evident throughout American art history. [11] [12] What an artist creates has much to do with the artist's life experiences and history. [13] Many black artists felt marginalized in the white-dominated art world. [8] [9] Museum leaders and gallery owners were rarely interested in the work of Black artists.

  9. Scratchboard - Wikipedia

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    Scratchboard or scraperboard or scratch art [1] is a form of direct engraving where the artist scratches off dark ink to reveal a white or colored layer beneath. The technique uses sharp knives and tools for engraving into the scratchboard, which is usually cardboard covered in a thin layer of white China clay coated with black India ink .