The movement changed “the very fabric of early 20th-century modern art.”
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Curator Denise Murell, said the term “Harlem Renaissance” generally refers to a cohort of artists who were “committed to the idea of portraying the modern Black subject in a modern way,” reflecting the changing cultural reality and vibrancy of places like Harlem. She described the style as one that combines African aesthetics with more experimental and expressionistic forms of European modernism.
The Harlem Renaissance wasn’t confined to Harlem, however. While a core group of artists and literary figures did emerge from New York City, Murell said it was “always a nationwide movement.” More than a specific geographic location, it was an idea or philosophy that gathered together artists in places like Philadelphia, Chicago and Oakland.In addition, many artists of the Harlem Renaissance spent time abroad, “primarily in France, the U.K., northern Europe and elsewhere,” Murell said.
Many of the works on view come from the collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities such as Howard and Fisk.
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