Brainstorm: Using family hood as a way to connect with other people struggling
Hi reader,
This is a brainstorm for my overarching art's project.
Overarching theme/idea: Struggles of being black and being
united with other people with hardships. This creates the idea of family hood between
them.
Parts from the mission statement:
The issue of people still not
being treated equally currently, because of other’s races, or gender. Many of
these people promoted these issues to be solved in the past but found little to
no progress in their goal. Today, many black people all over the world,
including Americans, are being treated unequally and many of them have died
from this power difference. Many people are looking in the past and noticing all
these artists pushing for change and nothing happened. So now people are making
sure this current string of “incidents” will not go unnoticed and making a change
will happen. A good portion of art created by these artists happened from an
incident happening, and their art is an effect of inequality incidents
happening.
Another goal for this blog is to focus
on why the artist releases their art on certain dates, and why some of their
art ends up being talked about for many years after their release.
Evidence/types of arts:
1.
Visual arts:
a. Lemonade,
b. Black is King
2.
Filmmaking: fast and
furious
3.
literature in the form of fiction:
a.
The Color Purple
b.
Excerpts
i.
from
Black looks (Bell Hooks)
ii.
Blue legacies (Angela Y Davis)
4.
Poetry:
a.
from Beyoncé’s lemonade,
b.
Poem about my rights (June Jordan),
c.
Who said it was simple (Audre Lorde)
5.
Performing arts like dance:
a.
Kendrick Lamar Alright in BET awards (look back
at the articles from Black Lives Matter Movement: Focusing On Kendrick Lamar's
impact blog post)
6.
Music: J. Cole,
Kendrick Lamar, and Beyonce.
a.
art to spread a message or ask a question to the
public. I rarely see these artists publishing a “random” album, but albums that
cement themselves into society and pop culture.
7.
BLM movement (protest and riots)
8. Painting, photography (nothing here but maybe something in the future)
Sincerely Raj
Si
I'm already really excited about your project!! I do think you'll need to narrow down these works of art into a smaller group, but there's so much good stuff here. Ultimately the goal is for depth versus breadth so that you can really dig in and explore the powerful statement these pieces are making. I think your focus on the experience of black people in society and how that is expressed through art is such an important, timely choice. I think that many of these works will indeed come to define current society.
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