Artist Jacob Lawrence's Journey Through Black American History in the USA
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- The Black American artist Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, USA on the 7th September 1917. He was one of the most important American black artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist depictions of everyday life as well as epic paintings of African American history and historical figures. Born into a poor family his rise to artistic prominence was rapid. He was part of the Harlem Renaissance which was an intellectual revival of African American art and literature centred in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City around the 1920’s and 30’s. He had his first art exhibition at 18 and by 1941 New York’s Downtown gallery was exhibiting his paintings. He was one of the first black artists to be represented by a major gallery.
He tended to work by creating a series of paintings on a theme; his most important series are the Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, the black revolutionary general and founder of the Republic of Haiti. The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series that explored the anti-slavery movement, and his most famous being, The Migration Series, inspired by the African-American Great Migration, the movement of 6 million black Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the industrial cities in the North and Midwest that occurred between 1916 and 1970’s. By 1949 Lawrence was the most prominent black artist in America.
Jacob Lawrence also taught with his wife Gwendolyn Knight at the Black Mountain College in 1946 and was offered a professorship teaching art at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1971.
In 1990 Jacob Lawrence received the National Medal of Arts from President George H.W. Bush.
Jacob Lawrence is celebrated not only for his artistic achievements and the dramatic impact he had on succeeding generations of artists. But also, for several firsts, being one of the first Black American artists to achieve widespread, mainstream acclaim, and the first to be represented by a commercial gallery, the Downtown Gallery in New York. Jacob Lawrence was one of the few painters of his generation who grew up in a black community, to be taught primarily by black artists, and to be influenced by black people.
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0:00 Introduction
1:08 Harlem. New York 1930's
1:31 Utopia Children's House, Harlem 1930's
1:43 Harlem Art Workshop. 1930's
3:29 Lafayette Theatre, Harlem late 1930's
6:16 A Former Site of the Downtown Gallery c.1940's
6:53 John Brown's Fort, Harpers Ferry
7:08 US Coastguard, Florida
7:49 Black Mountain College, North Carolina
9:03 New York, c.1950
9:14 Hillside Hospital, New York
9:20 The Hospital Series 1949-50
10:02 The Struggle Series - The History of American People 1954-55
10:29 United Nations Building, New York, c.1960
10:42 Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1960
11:18 New York, 1960's
11:39 Nigeria, 1960's
13:00 Whitney Museum of Art, 1974
13:48 Kingdome Stadium, Seattle, 1979
13:57 Howard University, Washington DC
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I was lucky enough to have had personal tutorials with Jacob Lawrence who was then a Professor of Art at the University of Washington when I was a student there. He was the sweetest, most open person, very encouraging and supportive. I was in the middle of a verbal complaint with the Dean of the Art Department about a teacher who pretended to be able to know what art was and wasn't, and who was dismissing my efforts. In the midst of this discussion, Jacob stuck his head in the door and said, "I'll take him on (as his student)". We had twice weekly sessions together. I feel so fortunate to have been able to work with him.
You are indeed very lucky to have worked with him. As you have recognised, it is very rare to find the two qualities of great artist and great teacher in one person. Jacob Lawrence had both qualities in abundance.
... sounds like YOU could not accept criticism
Have you actually read my comment above!?
@@ArtHistorySchool ...actually...???..
Wow you are definitely lucky, that's amazing you meet a wonderful historical person
What a remarkable man. I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate this art history class you have just given us. God bless you for your time.
Wow, thank you. He certainly was a remarkable man. Really pleased you liked the video. Cheers
I knew nothing about this artist until I saw this video. Thank you so much for making it.
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Paul, thank you for this wonderful documentary on Jacob Lawrence. As an African American, I am so proud of his contributions not just to African American art, but to to Art in general. I look forward to sharing this especially with young people.
I hope the young people appreciate what he had to contend with and the quality and meaning behind his art. Cheers
Greetings to Professor Kiceluk NYC and artist Regina Baumhauer
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I feel upset that despite a minor in Fine Arts, I do not recall ever having learned about Jacob Lawrence. Loved his 1977 work The Swearing In.
I would have thought he would be on all Fine Art programmes especially in the US
Thanks for introducing me to and educating me on Jacob Lawrence, who I hadn't heard of before, nor seen his work, all of which I found enjoyable and very moving.
I must admit not knowing a great deal about him before I started my research. He was a remarkable man and a great artist. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I was sadly unaware of this incredible artist. His paintings are unlike anything I've ever seen. I am always glad to know when an artist is recognized in their lifetime for their contributions to the world of art. I would be very honored to own one of his paintings...I'm sure they're worth a king's ransom. 💗🖼
I think his work would now be very expensive. He was a great artist. Cheers
Glad you did this video! I have to write an essay on him for my art appreciation class
Well, I hope you get top marks. Good Luck. Cheers
A superb overview of of this great artist. Your use of examples of Lawrence's work was an excellent complement to your examination of his life. Thank you.
Really glad you enjoyed it. He was a great artist. Cheers
Another fascinating video. Thanks for introducing this exceptional artist to your audience. Lawrence’s paintings are incredibly powerful, and even more so when viewed in person.
Really pleased you enjoyed the video, he was an exceptional artist.
Thank you for this insightful documentary. What surprises me most about Jacob Lawrence's art is the consistency throughout his long life. So many artists experiment with different styles through their career, Jacob's work was always dynamic, bold, graphic and thought provoking while while still capturing life around him and telling the story of the people he painted. Genius!
He was a really interesting artist who should be more well known. Cheers
Thank you so much! Your videos are magnificent! I’m so thankful to be able to learn about such wonderful artists.
Really pleased you like them! Cheers
While serving as an Institute of Museum and Library Services at Morgan State University, I was introduced to his work. The storytelling of his images is broken down to such a precise point of view is what struck me most. Thank you for sharing his work with the world. As a light sculptor from the Show Me state I find his use of solids and color combinations to be something I hope to achieve some day with my camera. Thanks again!!!
He was an artist who is not well known, particularly in the UK. He deserves a wider audience. Cheers
Thank you so much 🙏 for such quality content✨✨✨. I always look forward to your videos. 😍 ❤❤
Really pleased you enjoy my videos there should be another next week
Great and educational video, nothing less to be expected from this channel! 💖
Thank you very much! Cheers
That was a wonderful, very informative presentation. I had not previously heard of Jacob Lawrence. Thank you for your work on this video!
Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers
Another outstanding presentation! Thank you for making this available.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Sir! An incredible presentation! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
This was incredible. The effort and execution is very good. Please continue!!
Many Thanks, I shall certainly continue. Cheers
Great video, as always Pul . Thank you 👍
My pleasure!
so fortunate to know Jacob, thank you Paul
You are welcome.
Thanks to highlight this 👍👍👍👍. Many don't know about this guy.
My pleasure, yes, he is not as well known as he should be. Cheers
I love ALL your educational episodes. Many thanks!
Many thanks
Fascinating, I learned a lot about an artist I didn't know. His composition was so impressive. Your video was great and your jacket just excellent. I love the way you often have a sartorial reference to the artist under discussion. Real presentation pro. Thank you!
Thank you very much! Much appreciated. Cheers
Thank you so much, sir Paul for this interesting episode and excursion. You are like a Christmas miracle: just yesterday -I was thinking about you, hoping to see a new episode soon :) Merci beaucoup, monsieur!
Thank you for your kind comment. Cheers
Watched, and enjoyed greatly. Thanks Paul
Thank you , much appreciated.
This video was greatly informative. Thank you for sharing and shining a light on such an awesome artist.
You are so welcome!
Most interesting story about Jacob Lawrence. Thank you for posting. Have been impressed with Lawrence's art.
He's a very good artist. Cheers
I'm loving this history. I've always known of him, but never heard this history
He was a great painter.
Really powerful evocative work. Deceptively simple. Thanks!
Glad you liked it! Cheers
I love to see videos like this. Thank u.
You are welcome
This presentation is a great service to humanity.
Cheers
As a retired designer and now full time sculptor, just teaching myself to paint, I can't tell you how much I'm learning from you. Thank you!
Wow, that's great. Isn't wonderful to never stop learning, it keep the old brain cells functioning. Cheers
Thank you for this
My pleasure! Cheers
Thank you so much for your videos!
You are so welcome!
Very well put together, wonderful art!
Thank you! Cheers!
Brilliant, what an artist.
Thank you
Thank you so much for sharing all of those images. I've only seen his 1940's work before.
You're very welcome
oh this was really good ! Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Just, Wow!! I'm a 60 year old artist, and I've never seen this man's work. He was Brilliant!!! In the time that it took for me to watch this video, And to see 1 Modernist masterpiece after another, this man took the spot amongst the very top artists of the whole of the Modernist movement- imho. He stands shoulder- to- shoulder with Picasso, and rises above Many of his more famous contemporaries.
His work is just Beautiful, and truly represents the Apex of Art. I'm blown away. Thanks for sharing this! 👍
He was a great artist and I understand, from someone who was taught by him, a really nice person too.
Magnificent ARTIST
Wonderful display of his works!
Thx you
Thank you, he really was a great artist. Cheers
Thank you for that. Very informative.
Thanks for watching! Cheers
Excellent video
Glad you liked it. Cheers
Marvellous Thank you I enjoyed this artists work so much and will watch again. Thank you also for the presentation you pack somuch information in Best Wishes
Thank you! Cheers!
Superb presentation about a great American artist, who, up these past few moments, I had never heard of before.
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
Thank you for another amazing, informative video about an amazing person. I have learnt so much from your videos.
You are so welcome!
Best doc so far thank u
Really pleased you enjoyed it. Cheers
Wow’’ such electrifying introduction to Mr Jacob Lawrence never heard of him before until now.
Yes he was a great artist, someone who needs more recognition.
Thank you VERY much Art History School.🎨⏳🏫
You are welcome
Yes, I enjoyed learning about Jacob.
That's great. Cheers
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for another excellent video ❤️
You are so welcome!
Thanks, Paul! I so appreciate the artists you choose for excellence and inclusiveness. My favorite works among those you show are "Taboo" and the self-portrait. We saw the eye-opening 2015 MoMA exhibit "One Way Ticket", the 60 Jacob Lawrence panels on Black migration in America that you mention.
You are very welcome, I have not seen any of his work in the flesh, which is a shame.
Didn't know about this artist. Thanks for this!
You are welcome
Wonderful!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks for wonderful video.. Sir paul. 🤓👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it, Cheers
Thanks for that
You are welcome.
Very interesting topic.
Glad you think so!
Very inspiring!!❤️
Thank you so much!
Wow this is interesting history I'm so glad you did this video, in the history books in school they don't talk about him. He had a hard life but he rode above it. I wish I could have meet him
Yes, he was a great artist who needs a wider audience. I'm glad you liked the video. Cheers.
Love his manner of painting very much.
Yes, he was a great painter
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers
I enjoyed his art, thank you 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Brilliant art
He was great painter
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
Amazing.
Thank you! Cheers!
I Say hello from Cancún México. I m mexicana. Love yours videos. Thanks so much.
Glad you like my videos. Cheers from England
Wonderful artist painting wonderful art.
Very true and a very nice man by all accounts.
I saw his exhibit here in Washington DC. Good video. 👍🏼
You are lucky, his work is rarely shown in the UK
awesome and inspiring doc, thanx :)
You are very welcome. Cheers
Incredible
Thank you
how good to watch this one
Many thanks
Wonderful video…
Thank you! Cheers!
I’ve never heard of him. Excellent.
Cheers
I learned something totally new.
That's great. Cheers
Great video.. Happy he knew Walker Evans who was an amazing photographer..
Definitely!
Brilliant job, Paul! While I had seen his Olympia piece before, I was not previously aware of his name, like some music I'm fond of from the 60s & 70s, which were my childhood years. Passionate and meaningful musical works, much like Lawrence's creations. What a blessing that he found a pro arts & diversity commander during his military service, who re-assigned him to live that tragic time out in his truth. Nigeria seems to have been exactly what the doctor ordered, precisely at the moment Lawrence most needed it. I'm glad he found a way to go and stay as long as suited him. Honors can indeed be a two-edged sword. I'm grateful he was so prolific and skilled so we have plenty of his work to enjoy and learn from. Have you considered including a link to his foundation in the description for this video or an artist resources page on your site? I look forward to more diverse artist coverage like this.
Gald you enjoyed it Cheers
Vielen Dank, für die Präsentation dieses tollen Künstlers
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loved it
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FAIR & JUST SOCIETY ...yet another unfulfilled dream! Thank You for sharing. Love your clothes!
Shame we can't all work for it though. Glad you like the video. Cheers
@@ArtHistorySchool I take comfort in the story of David & Goliath...I believe just a few of us working for it = David. p.s. Your videos & personality always inspire to keep creating. Cheers to You & Your Subscribers!
BRAVO!👏👏👏
Cheers
Great, I did really enjoy this video. I don't know Jacob Lawrence's work though I must have seen some over the course of my lifetime. After this 'exposé' I hope I'll never NOT see it again if I'm in a gallery containing any. Where is there any in Britain? This merits another watch or two by me since I was constantly stopping to look at the photographs and paintings, occasionally, sadly,obscuring each other and both of equal interest.Well done for another great piece of informative video work in itself. I'd like to stand in front of some of these paintings.
Glad you liked the video. I must admit I haven't seen any of his work in the UK, not sure there is much, if any in national collections. Yes, you are not the first to mention the point about the photos and paintings, I think, in hindsight, I could have achieved a better balance in editing between those elements to allow each to breathe a little more.
Awesome
Cheers
Loving Lawrence's art
Yes, he was a great painter.
Nice story about artist Lawrence.
And he is living the time of slavery
period.I appreciate this story and art history school.
He was a very interesting artist.
Great review...would love to see larger art and smaller you. Thanks!
Glad you liked the video
I love that jacket!
Cheers
I love Jacob Lawrence art.
He was a great artist.
Thank you very much!
Very interesting performance.
Hello from Moscow.
Thank you very much! Cheers from England
@@ArtHistorySchool Love youe accent...You are Londonner aren't you?
Gracias, por acercarnos ese gran artista, que desconocía! Thank you to give us, to knowledge of a great artist, sorry if I wrote bad, !
You wrote well. Gald you liked the video. Cheers
damn, looking fresh in this video, man.
Cheers
Bonjour ,Merci beaucoup pour votre chaîne instructive et éducative ,Mille gratitude pour ce grand effort de création de vidéos , je suis artiste Peintre malien , je me régale en les visionnant , thanks you ,more life
Merci beaucoup, bonne chance avec votre peinture. Bravo d'Angleterre.
Jacob Lawrence was truly an Black artist 🎨 knowing your art history is always good!
True
I like the use of color and movement in Lawrence's paintings and the revolutionary aspects of them which likely helped the cause of his black generation.
I'm sure it did. Cheers
Love him
Yes, he was a great artist.
TYsM for this episode on Jacob Lawrence. really sad, let down, & upsetting that i never heard this amazing artist's name, nor saw any of his paintings in any of the 4 Western Art History classes i took back in the day. i have learned more about 20th century pioneer artists from youtube smh. well, thankfully back then (late 90s) classes only cost $13/unit. amazing. i paid cash for my classes back then! 20 yrs doesnt seem like THaT long ago, but if i say i paid $40 per 3 credit course, one would guess more than 2 decades had passed.
his work is beautiful. love the colors
He was a great painter, not well known this side of the pond.
I see much of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” coming from Jacob Lawrence’s work.
Picasso had been greatly influenced by Lawrence as well as other Black artists and African spiritual relics of sculptures and masks.
Something Picasso was strained to share and enlighten the public about.
Picasso was influenced by African art, particularly through his cubist period, but not by Lawrence I'm afraid, who wasn't born until long after the cubist period ended. Jacob Lawrence was only 19 when Guernica was painted and had not produced anything, by that age, of the significance of his later work, so I doubt Picasso was even aware of his existence. Cheers
The hands!
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I clicked so fast
Can we have a "Francis bacon" video
He's on my list.
Muito legal.
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