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An artist is a person skilled in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others (“artist” Webster’s New World Dictionary). People associate artist with painters, sculptures, and drawers. Many artists recognize their gift at early ages. Although, many artist use their skill to show their cultures and feelings, the word artist, when heard people think Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, or Cassett. When people hear Black American Artist, they think of people who do African Art. However, many Black American Artists specialize in many other things other than African Art. Faith Ringgold, Jean Michel Basquait, William Tolliver, Jeremy, Maurice, and Robert Love, Kathleen Wilson, Charles Bibbs, Renee Cox and Paul Goodnight are famous Black Artists who have shaped the world of art for many up comings.
An overnight success, born in Brooklyn, New York, Jean Michel Basquait lit the torch for many black artists. Like other artists before him, Basquait started his work as a teenager. Basquait was skilled in the art of graffiti, the use of spray paint cans to depict pictures and words. At the age of nineteen, Jean Michel Basquait became famous
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Kathleen Wilson, Faith Ringgold, and Renee Cox, the three among the few black women to put their foot in the art world, door. Baquait started his painting on subway cars and the walls of buildings in Brooklyn. Bibbs range of versatility extends from mixed media drawing and painting to clay vessels and masks. The Love brothers started a company called GETTOSAKE ENTERTAINMENT, a pop culture company and production studio that uses animation and illustration as its primary medium (www. He was the first black artist to really succeed in the powerful white art - world, his early death shows that he was casualty as well as phenomenal success (New York Times 16 March 1991:24“The Basquait File” by Robert Knafo). However, unlike other artists discovering their ability at early ages, Charles’s father discovered his talent when he was in elementary. Unlike, many artist painting, drawing and sculpting, Faith Ringgold made beautiful quilts. The style of the avid appreciator Picasso called Cubism. In 1991, Tolliver opened a gallery in the district of Buckhead in Atlanta, Georgia. Paul Goodnight often incorporates African themes and symbols to provide depths of history and culture.
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