what did being a "negro artist" seem to mean for one of the painters you looked at this week?
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PROMPT RESPONSE DISCUSSION: Please make one post responding to ONE of the following prompts:
1. We have looked at a lot of cultural productions from the Harlem Renaissance -- literature, poetry, essays, music, and now art. We have seen "authentic" and even iconic music and poetry written by both black and (occasionally) white Americans, and seen attempts by both blacks and whites to conform to some kind of middle class ideal. Going back to Langston Hughes' essay, in which he wrote about the young man who did not want to be known as a "negro artist," what did being a "negro artist" seem to mean for one of the painters you looked at this week?
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2. We have looked at a lot of cultural productions from the Harlem renaissance -- literature, poetry, essays, music, and now art. Which of these artistic pieces, in your judgment, best sums up the Harlem renaissance, and WHY?
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