PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Aaron Douglas, (born May 26, 1899, Topeka, Kansas, U.S.—died February 2, 1979, Nashville, Tennessee)
Played a role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s
After receiving a bachelor's degree, he moved to Kanas to teach art than moved to New York in 1925.
By 1939, he left New York to teach at Fisk Univeristy we're he would spend the next 27 years
Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction
1934
Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers
1934
Aspects of Negro Life: The Negro in an African Setting
1934
Building More Stately Mansions
1944
The harlem renaissance and the Social realism, The Harlem Renaissance is the cultural, social, and artistic realization in harlem. This took place after WW1 and before the 1930s. During this time harlem was the place where all the black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars lived and worked.
Because the 1930s were hard times, artists started to draw and explain in their art what it was like in those times. They drew and wrote about everyone doing physical labor. People in this time argued by making their work. Many people at the time were recovering from the great depression, and they wanted to bring back the prosperity.
With his artwork, he wanted to show what black people or African Americans we're going through at the time. This is what his most famous pieces of artwork we're explaining.
He wanted to show the beauty of Harlem, but also the struggles of everyday life as an African American.
