Based on diligent research and inspired by Harlem Renaissance artists Augusta Savage and Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence illustrated African American history through
colorful narrative paintings.
Not exact matches
Her abstract
paintings steer her message away from literal
narrative toward a kind of
colorful atmospheric poetry.
Her ambivalent pictorial language can not be deciphered on a linear path, since in her
colorful shining
paintings, out of nonrepresentational elements,
narrative references suddenly emerge.
In his vividly
colorful and intricately detailed
narrative paintings, Velasquez creates imaginative fantasy scenes using a psychedelic aesthetic sensibility, an approach that links him to a tradition that I documented in the 2010 book and San Antonio Museum of Art exhibition «Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art» since the 1960s.