African American Figurative Art

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Comment by rosetta nesbitt on May 17, 2012 at 2:48pm

I'm off to the printshop to make a monoprint of this beautiful "Queen Ann's Lace" I saw on the roadside..got my clippers in my toolbox!

Comment by rosetta nesbitt on May 17, 2012 at 2:46pm

IMG_0160.JPG Thats a good one! I'm a little old lady that likes to garden..I love this mono! It reminds me of myself, so it will hang over my bed forever!  

Comment by Carol A. Simmons on May 17, 2012 at 11:32am

I studied art in  Charleston SC.  In the drawing and painting classes that I took, there was one Black male model who posed for a drawing class and only one time.  Maybe it is different in the south.

Comment by Hasani Claxton on May 17, 2012 at 7:36am

Rosetta,

When I was in art school in NY and San Francisco there were several black models that regularly posed for our classes. Perhaps because you are in the south (bible belt) Black folk don't see nude modeling as compatible with their values.

Comment by Edwin Boone on May 16, 2012 at 7:05pm

Rosetta, your analysis is right on target, but keep on pushing and you will prevail. We need artists with your strength to make postive changes.

Comment by rosetta nesbitt on May 16, 2012 at 9:20am

Re: figure model. I am studying Studio Art and have taken part in several figurative drawing classes, my concern has been, not once has there been a "black model"..I have addressed my concerns and searched for my own model to work with in my personal studio..It is obvious that the institutions are not interested in black models, but I think there is another side to this problem. Many black women have a problem with "taking it off for professional purposes"..We get too mentally caught up in the sexual aspect of "being naked", that we can realize nor appreciate the artistic beauty in the female/male nude. Another problem, especially here in the south, is it has been driven into our minds that we are an "Ugly Race" of people, which maybe the reason so many African American women insist upon changing the texture of their hair and/or eye color to look like some other race of people..the sad part of it all is, as women, we will take off our clothes for all the wrong reasons.

Comment by Linda Singletary on May 15, 2012 at 6:01pm

I am not an artist but LOVE figurative art.  I am hoping that sculpture will be inclusive as I am trying to include more sculpture into my collection.

If any of you are doing figurative sculpture of african americans then please download your images. 

 We need more works  like  Elizabeth Catlett, William Artis, Richmond Barthe and Artis Lane.  On BAIA there is the great Vinnie Bagwell and Li Hardison !!!!  Our image is so beautifully conveyed by sculptors such as these.

Comment by Steven Yager on March 21, 2012 at 6:44am

Where should you be March 31? The New York Photo Show at the Lighthouse 111 East 59th Street. Vendors will have photographs from daguerreotypes to digital, B&W to alternative, 19th - 21st cent.

Comment by Tanya on March 1, 2012 at 8:07pm

Thanks Cleveland.  I think that I do use black too early sometimes. You don't think a good black would be raw sienna and Ultramarine blue? I always thought burnt sienna and ultramarine gave warmer "black" than I needed..... but I am open to trying some things.

 

I have never used magenta... but I do have rose red or rose madder. I will try it- I need to step it up if I want some more depth in my paintings. Thanks

Comment by Cleveland Palmer on February 26, 2012 at 3:53pm

@Tanya try rose red and magenta with your palette, it helps out your crimson. 

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