In the decades following World War II, modernist practices in art emerged around the world and took dominance. But they were not always pursuing the same goals. Pick one example of an art work from each chapter and explain what sort of modernism it expresses? Is it universalist, regionalist, focused on national or ethnic identity, or something else? Try to find difference and/or similarities between you two chosen pieces. One from each section
No more than 250 words, no need other sources
Section 1
Aaron Douglas, Aspects of Negro Life:an Idyll of the deep south
Augusta Savage, life every voice and sing (the Harp)
Jacob Lawrence, the migration series, Panel no 49: They found discrimination in the north. It was a different kind
Georgia O’Keeffe, From the White Place
Lawren Harris, Lake and Mountains
Emilt Carr, Big raven
Wifredo Lam, The jungle
Grant wood, American Gothic
Edward Hopper, nighthawks
Jackson Pollock, Number 27
Willem de Kooning, Woman and bicycle
Mark Rothko, Orange and Yellow
Helen Frankenthaler, small’s paradise
David Smith, Cubi XVIII
Section 2
Gregory Maloba, Independence Monument, 1962
Ben Enwonwu, Ogolugu, 1972
Uche Okeke, head of a girl, 1962
Ibrahim El-Salahi, reborn sounds of childhood dreams I
Nnaji and Ezem, Amadioha and his wife in an mbari dedicated to Ala
Kweku Atta, posuban of Kyirem No.2 Asafo Company
Gneli Traore, bogolanfini
Vani Sona, Sowei or Ndoli Jowei mask, 20th century
Dumile Feni (Zwelidumile Mslaba Feni), children under apartheid
Magdalene Anyango Odundo, Untitled, 1991
Bodys Isek Kingelez, Ville Fantome (Phantom city)
