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Amandla is a piece by Hank Willis Thomas that was created in 2014 out of silicone, fiberglass and metal finish. This artwork was originally located in the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York but is currently placed in the Savannah College of Art and Design Museum in Savannah, Georgia. The three-dimensional piece consists of a yellow wooden window and part of an arm going through it with the hand shaped as a fist. Amandla is in addition a part of an entire collection of artworks called ‘’FREEDOM isn’t always beautiful’. If the viewer relies on the piece and on the collection as a whole, it is a richer experience towards understanding the narrative and makes it much more relevant for what the artist is trying to emanate.

This composition narrates the story related to Amandla, commonly known as a word that means power and represents the African American community and organizations calling for resistance during the Apartheid, which was a discriminatory system towards a race approximately from the 1950’s to the 1990’s. Within the piece we are able to notice several principles of design that are used in order to enhance the artist’s intended narrative. The position in which the arm is placed within the …show more content…
Altogether, the colors in the piece are vital for their warmth and liveliness, which contributes to a successful composition that shows detail and enables us to not only appreciate the interaction between the three dimensional figures but also the story intended to be
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