The Harlem Renaissance

(Cafe by William H Johnson 1939-40)

Time frame- 1920s-mid 1930s
5 main artists1.
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Langston Hughes
Aaron Douglas
Jacob Lawrence
Zora Neale Hurston
William H Johnson

5 artistic elements1. bright colors

2. includes politics
3. loose kind of painting style
4. some artists (like langston hughes) were literary artists

5. a lot of the paintings have people dancing or musical paintings

The Harlem Renaissance was a movement for african american cultural identity. It was a movement
that was mostly evident up in the northern cities like Chicago and New York City because of the
migration and white supremacy in the south, causing african american people to seek better lives up
north. The notherners werent so welcoming, so the Harlem Renaissance began to shed more light on the
african american lives.
citationshttp://www.ushistory.org/us/46e.asp
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harlem-renaissance
http://www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literature-and-art