ENGL 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bare Trees, Cubism, The Phillips Collection
23 Oct 2017
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Jacob lawrence, the migration of the negro response paper. The migration of the negro is a series of 60 small panel paintings by jacob lawrence that describes the passage of the population of african-americans from the rural south side of. The phillips collection in washington d. c. contains the odd- numbered half of the portraits of the series. Americans from a deprived and oppressive rural south to a flourishing but hostile urban north during the peacetime between the two great world wars. Jacob lawrence and his family were part of that monumental movement in history. Living breathing history, an organic phenomenon, that he lived through and that his paintings depict of. The use of art style was another motif of his illustrations. Linear verticals of bare trees or raised arms combined with the abstract construction of flat planes with open skies or high walls creates a pulse of outflows and enclosures punctuated by ruptures.
