CAU Art Gallery Analysis
The CAU Art Gallery has a collection of comprised of 1,200 works of art in three major categories which are Contemporary American, African American, and African art. In these collections are paintings, murals, sculptures, works on paper and ethnographical artifacts acquired through purchases and donations. The growth and continuation of the Clark Atlanta University Collection of American art report the role of black artists in the history of American art, between the years of 1942 and 1970. CAU's tradition in promoting the arts began in 1942 when exhibition opportunities for artists of color were limited due to segregation. Then Clark Atlanta University, introduced the yearly "Exhibition of Paintings, Prints and Sculpture by Negro Artists of
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It represented different traditions of Africans in America, and predicts the impact of African culture on Western civilization. In the picture, Shango, the African Storm god, is surrounded by figures costumed in traditional regalia that allude to hunting, harvest, or war. At the bottom of the painting, is men carving and painting . The second panel is Interchange. It indicates cultural exchange among the people of Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, and Europe in ancient times. Surrounding the top of the painting, presents historic architectural forms from Greece, Egypt, and the Songhai Empire. On the left of the painting, is a Greek musician who is analyzing an African musician playing a thumb piano called kalimba. This panel showed me the exchange between each culture and how they impacted on one another.
The third panel was Dissipation. This panel was very interesting to me. This panel had this shade of darkness at the top. It dramatized the immigration of Africa by European cultures and the following destruction and geographic spreading of its formal artifacts. During the portrayal includes a 400 year span, the fire and representation of a royal artifact of Benin which is this greenish figure with a helmet holding a weapon, specifically pointing out the historic event when a British armed force conducted a vindictive raid, burning the city to the ground and looting all the artifacts in
It represented different traditions of Africans in America, and predicts the impact of African culture on Western civilization. In the picture, Shango, the African Storm god, is surrounded by figures costumed in traditional regalia that allude to hunting, harvest, or war. At the bottom of the painting, is men carving and painting . The second panel is Interchange. It indicates cultural exchange among the people of Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean, and Europe in ancient times. Surrounding the top of the painting, presents historic architectural forms from Greece, Egypt, and the Songhai Empire. On the left of the painting, is a Greek musician who is analyzing an African musician playing a thumb piano called kalimba. This panel showed me the exchange between each culture and how they impacted on one another.
The third panel was Dissipation. This panel was very interesting to me. This panel had this shade of darkness at the top. It dramatized the immigration of Africa by European cultures and the following destruction and geographic spreading of its formal artifacts. During the portrayal includes a 400 year span, the fire and representation of a royal artifact of Benin which is this greenish figure with a helmet holding a weapon, specifically pointing out the historic event when a British armed force conducted a vindictive raid, burning the city to the ground and looting all the artifacts in