Black Painters, Designers, and Architects?
Burns
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Being Black History Month, please school me on any painters, designers, and architects that I should be aware of please, I want to know.
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He did a series of prints taking the text from books such as Invisible Man and gradually becoming blacker, and messing with the white/black of ink/text/paper.
This is my favorite- he did a series of runaway slave posters using descriptions by his friends to describe him as the runaway slave.
In this series, he gave school kids a coloring book of black leaders, and had them color them in; he then painted the images he got.
richard hunt
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/nationalities/African-American.html
I could think of no famous Black architects, and I am a fan of architectur. googled and found this:
http://architecture.about.com/cs/architectsmasters/tp/blackarchitects.htm
I can say for sure there wasnt ever an emphasis on what race a person was when we were studying a design or methodology. Only half the time names were even mentioned. The form and function of a product and the dynamic of those two things was more important then any other detail.
I know that the current global head of design for GM is African American and I believe this is a first for the industry.
Same here, never did I put a name to a face, but it was usually europeans that I heard of in school on the urban design side.
All the architects, look as though they got no recognition or horrible projects to work with.
Richard Hunt (sculptor/artist)
Professorships & Artists Residences
1960-61 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1960-62 University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
1964 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1964 Cal Arts (formerly Chouinard Art School) Los Angeles, CA
1965 Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
1968 Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
1968-69 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1969 Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1969 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
1970 Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois
1975 University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana
1977 University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
1977-78 Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1980 The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
1982 Utah State University, Logan Utah
1985 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1988 Eastern Michigan University, Yipsilanti, Michigan
1989-90 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1990 Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1990 State University of New York, Binghamton, New York
1997 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
he also did the interior of saks fifth avenue...
a remodel of the beverly hills hotel...
he also designed baller residences like these...
he could have made a career out of designing substantial residential projects for big time clients but his social conscience was stonger than that. he designed the la's first ymca for "colored" boys" he also devoted a lot of his time to the problem of public housing which was a huge issue during the depression and post-world war 2 years. he was a member of los angeles's first housing commission. in 1936 he co-designed the nation's first federally funded public housing project, langston terrace in washing d.c.
david adjaye although not american (english) has been doing some brilliant work.
including the nobel peace center in oslo...
the british bienale pavilion..
and he won competitions for two idea stores in london..
and some fantasic houses but images are hard to find...
i don't know much about shawn rickenbacker. but he has been winning a few design awards lately.
one smile a day
Here is his wiki entry:
I think he is really underappreciated as a painter, and I hate when he and other black painters like him are classified as naive or primitive. He was a great painter and his paintings like the jungle and the ones above express a lot of emotion.
Philadelphia wouldn't be the same without the great contributions of this man:
http://libwww.library.phila.gov/75th/abele.htm
Chris Ofili
Andres Serrano (photgrapher)
This cat was born around the same area as I was raised so my high school photography teacher gave a copy of his biography to his students every year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks
Beauford Delaney is one of my favorites
cant forget the legend dondi
george herriman
cool design, but the russian dudes who built it kept running over to watch world cup matches and get fucked up over at the alibi, so there's these huge gaps in the panels -- which i don't think are supposed to be there.
he could have made a career out of designing substantial residential projects for big time clients but his social conscience was stonger than that. he designed the la's first ymca for "colored" boys" he also devoted a lot of his time to the problem of public housing which was a huge issue during the depression and post-world war 2 years. he was a member of los angeles's first housing commission. in 1936 he co-designed the nation's first federally funded public housing project, langston terrace in washing d.c.
david adjaye although not american (english) has been doing some brilliant work.
i don't know much about shawn rickenbacker. but he has been winning a few design awards lately.
Thank you, and Phill, for the
I have to say I am not feeling the photos of Paul Williams work. I have marveled at that UFO restaurant thing at the LA airport.
I find this residence an egregious mish mash of bad styles and materials
Naive and primitive are legit art terms. A) any artist who does not have formal training. B) A style that lacks perspective.
Grandma Moses and many other White artist are called naive or primitive.
Does not mean the artists paintings are not great or lack emotion.
If you knew that and still hate the classification, that's cool.
Cant forget Basquiat...
since i can remember sitting on the hot vinyl seats in the back of my parents station wagon while we drove around the lax loop my eyes have never stopped studying the restaurant building. it is a very graceful building which resonates very well with its context. two spaces which i forgot to mention the first time are the fountain coffee shop and polo lounge in the beverly hills hotel, both of which capture a classic la style.
as for the residences, there are some that i think are quite good, some that i don't care for and many that i don't know. i have been to neither of the houses pictured above. in paul william's defense, residential architecture is much different than public architecture. even clients who are used to working with an architect in the public realm are much more hands-on with their houses. as an architect you can give your clients recommendations but you can not give them a sense of style or taste. when designing a house a lot of decision come down to the client wanting a reflection of themselves. extravagance and luxury sometime come at the cost of taste. it is the architect's job to make the best of what he/she is given, but architecture is also a business, and time is money. each iteration of a design takes a lot of time to design and document. as you go through projects you learn with which clients you might be able to do something extraordinary, and those that you are better off giving what they want and moving on to the next. very few architects make it to a place where they only take extraordinary clients.
True that. Thats why I limited my critisim to the work as shown in the photos.
No. What's the story?
Jerry Pinkney - Caldecott award winning illustrator of childrens books
Me - an emerging African American illustrator, I'm tryin ta reach their^^ level of achievements.
if you'd like a giclee print of this painting signed by me, go to http://jrprints.tripod.com.
If there are any more lp covers please let me know.
Images are not showing in preview. I think I did everything right. If not cut and paste.
No, I get it and I just don't like it.