“The thing about art is that you only hold it in trust. There’s a living spirit in a great work of art. If you see it only in terms of its monetary value, the circle of communication is incomplete.”
Corrine Jennings - Director Kenkeleba House, New York, NY. Corrine with her husband, artist Joe Overstreet, opened the Kenkeleba House at 214 E. 2nd Street to encourage and promote minority artists.
“The thing I was trying to do was trying to get their (African Americans) interest in culture, in art. I planned that by putting them in the paintings themselves, making them part of my own work so they could see themselves as they are. .I’ve always wanted to paint my people just the way they are.”
Archibald Motley, Jr. - African American Visual Artist. Archibald Motley, Jr.
was considered the Chicago counterpart in the visual arts to the Harlem Renaissance painers. Born 1891, in New Orleans, LA and died in Chicago, IL. 1981.
“Art buyers are considered “collectors” rather than “consumers” because original art is not “consumed” by the buyer.”
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“The Negro artist, doubly sensitive as an artist and as an oppressed personality, has often shied off from his richest pasture at the slightest suspicion of a Ghetto gate..Yet after pardonable and often profitable wanderings afield for experience and freedom’s sake, the Negro artist, like all good artists, must and will eventually come home to the materials he sees most and understands best.”
Alain Locke – African American Educator and Writer. Born Alain LeRoy Locke, in Philadelphia, PA is best known for his association with the Harlem Renaissance. Through The New Negro, published in 1925, Locke made popular and helped defined the Renaissance as a development and movement in black arts and letters.
Posted By: October Gallery
Sunday, April 11th 2010 at 7:20PM
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