Minority Artists

Introduction: Search and evaluate selections of minority art using the terms to familarize yourself with objective evaluations. List at least three (3) terms for three (3) artworks (one from each heading) you have selected and describe your emotional (affective) reactions to those three works.

Black

Lorna Simpson - Female African American Artist
 

more sites on Lorna Simpson:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/simpson_lorna.html
http://www.artincontext.org/LISTINGS/IMAGES/FULL/Q/TDISTO6Q.htm


Jacob Lawrence - African American artist, born in Atlantic City, his art deals with Social Realism
 

other sites on Jacob Lawrence:
A Jacob Lawrence Exhibition - Some Of Jacob Lawrence's works

 

Romare Bearden - painter -  http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Bearden_R/SSII.html

http://www.upenn.edu/ARG/archive/bearden/bearden.html - Includes works by Bearden

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/GIF_Images.html - Image Archive of Black Art

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bearden_romare.html - Black male painter.

http://www.arts-net.com - Black painters and sculptors.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html- shows masks, sculptures, headresses and their descriptions
 

Hispanic
 

http://www.joserios.net/- Site for Jose Rios

http://www.aaquino.com/fineart.htm - Andrés Aquino, Hispanic male photographer

http://www.soraida.com/- This is not only a Hispanic, but also a female artist on this page

Frida Kahlo - female artist - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo - seven works (main page has a lot of information -- including a biography)

Diego Rivera - http://www.diegorivera.com/index.php  - Diego Rivera Virtual Museum (includes a gallery, murals, and biography)
 

Women
 

http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/artpainting/ - African American female artist, includes history. 

http://www.tfaoi.com/newsm1/n1m459.htm - Mary Cassatt's paintings and drawings.

Frida Kahlo - Hispanic artist - http://www.nmwa.org/legacy/bios/bkahlo.htm - seven works (main page has a lot of information -- including a biography)

Louise Nevelson - American sculptor -  http://sheldon.unl.edu/HTML/ARTIST/Nevelson_L/SSII.html

Lorna Simpson - Female African American Artist
 

sites on Lorna Simpson:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/simpson_lorna.html