Jacob Lawrence - The Migration of the Negro (panel No.1), 1940-41, casein, tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 inches
Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism”, at first I thought his influence was of French art .e.g. Pablo Picasso but his primary influence was the shapes and colors of Harlem, which is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Lawrence was only in his twenties when his "Migration Series" made him famous, one of the paintings “The Migration of the Negro” shows the hardship of what Black African Americans went thought to get to where there are now, and this painting in my opinion somehow shows this and how Lawrence uses the colours also gives it a sad mood to it.
Jacob Lawrence - The Migration of the Negro (panel No.1), 1940-41, casein, tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 inches
Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism”, at first I thought his influence was of French art .e.g. Pablo Picasso but his primary influence was the shapes and colors of Harlem, which is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Lawrence was only in his twenties when his "Migration Series" made him famous, one of the paintings “The Migration of the Negro” shows the hardship of what Black African Americans went thought to get to where there are now, and this painting in my opinion somehow shows this and how Lawrence uses the colours also gives it a sad mood to it.
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