The article
published on the website news-gazette.com on February 3, 2013 3is headlined “Art
Beat: Check out Lawrence paintings at Krannert Art Museum”. The article
discusses one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century,
Jacob Lawrence, who was an extraordinary storyteller with his paintbrush. It
was revealed that Lawrence used a limited range of pure colors to define his
forms and to achieve a consistency and rhythm among the paintings. They tell
L'Ouverture's story with gravity, clarity, emotional force and beauty.
Speaking of the
situation it is necessary to note that Lawrence created the series when he was
20 to pay tribute to the hero of the Haitian revolution who in the late 18th
century defeated Napoleon and drove him from Haiti. Lawrence departed from that
in the size of his paintings — 111/2 by 19 inches — but not in their scope and
ambition. He reduced the project to one that could be arranged on the floor of
his artist's studio.
It’s an open
secret that Gaither places the L'Ouverture Series squarely in the genre of
history paintings, which typically are grand in concept, distinctive in points
of view and intended for public consumption. There is a general feeling to
believe that in his series, Lawrence, himself a product of the Harlem
Renaissance, depicted the Haitian leader from birth to death. In one painting,
L'Ouverture as a child sees an enraged planter striking a slave. Another shows
him as a boy, fleeing into the tropical forest.
The article
concludes by saying that the saddest depicts a despondent L'Ouverture lying on
a bench against a wall in a castle in France, where he was deported in 1802
after being forced to resign as governor of Haiti by forces sent by Napoleon to
restore French authority in the former colony. The hero of Haiti died in 1803
in France.
As for me, I
think that the brilliance of Lawrence's original concept remains
underappreciated. Moreover, Lawrence's narrative sense gave the world art from
which understanding of human possibility can grow.
the direct link would help me to examine your rendering more correctly. Please, give it next time.
ОтветитьУдалитьConclude your rendering with your own opinion but not with Gaither's statement, or quote it at least.