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Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1898 – February 3, 1979) was an American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Throughout his early career, Douglas looked for opportunities to increase his knowledge about art. In 1928-29, Douglas studied African and Modern European art at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania on a grant from the foundation. In 1931 he traveled to Paris, where he spent a year studying more traditional French painting and drawing techniques at the Academie Scandinave.
In 1937, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he founded the Art Department at Fisk University and taught for 29 years. Coinciding with this move was a shift to a more traditional painting style, including portraits and landscapes like the one at right.
Douglas was known for his semi-abstract, hard-edged style which synthesized aspects of modern European, ancient Egyptian, and West African art. Douglas was first recognized as an illustrator, and many of his early works are black and white drawings that show some affinities with Art Deco illustrations from the same period. His paintings consisted of flat forms, hard edges, and repetitive geometric shapes. His painting style is distinguished in part by a very unusual use of color. Large bands of color radiate out from important objects in each painting, and where these bands intersect with other bands or other objects, the color changes. He wanted people to understand African-American spiritual identity, and, in some ways, he may have succeeded: Douglas was often called the 'Father of African American art' . |
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