Kerry James Marshall discusses the lack of self - satisfied black figures throughout the history of art and the importance of filling this void with paintings of
confident black figures who are not defined by trauma.
Not exact matches
A small, darkly clad
figure in a frock coat and knee boots stumbled along, carrying a long
black leather case, timidly following a tall,
confident man with long flowing white hair.
The central
figure is a glorious male nude, his muscles articulated in
confident strokes of
black chalk.
In Thomas» own photograph, «Sidra Sitting,» the artist replaces the typically demure, white
figure of the reclining female nude with a fully dressed
black woman
confident in her posture and looking at the camera head - on.