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His art often depicts victims of police brutality, civil rights figures, athletes, and cultural icons. Smith began incorporating activism into his art following the killing of Trayvon Martin. In July 2013, his portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. wearing a hoodie went viral. [6] Black Lives Matter commissioned Smith to paint George Floyd in 2020.
Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. [1] The group formed in New York City in 1985, born out of a picket against the Museum of Modern Art the previous year.
John Thomas Biggers (April 13, 1924 – January 25, 2001) [1] was an African-American muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II.
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The Asian American community is mourning legendary photographer Corky Lee, an activist and artists who used his work to combat injustice and discrimination. Lee's death from Covid-19, in January ...
It is difficult to establish a history for protest art because many variations of it can be found throughout history. While many cases of protest art can be found during the early 1900s, like Picasso's Guernica in 1937, the last thirty years [when?] has experienced a large increase in the number of artists adopting protest art as a style to relay a message to the public.
In 1963, while jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, during anti-segregation protests, King penned the famous words, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Black Lives Matter Movement: A movement in photos ABC news published an issue featuring the Black Lives Matter movement in photos. The photos consist of BLM protests ranging from 2013 to 2021, showing protests that stemmed from the killings of Black and Brown people, at the hands of police.