Terms of the Day and Images for Lecture November12

• Spiral – a collective of AfricanAmerican artists initially formed by Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, Norman Lewis, and Hale Woodruff on July 5, 1963. The artists in the group were moved to come together and discuss their own engagement in the struggle for civil rights, even though each found engagement in a different way. 
• Minimalism – a movement in various forms of art and design where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features, such as material and the basic elements and principles of art.
• Washington Color School – a Washington, DC-based visual art movement of the late 1950s through the mid-1970s which was related  to abstract expressionism but made attempts to be much more minimal and structured than abstract expressionism.  Members of the movement referred to themselves as “Colorists”.

 The Problem We All Live With

Norman Rockwell

1964

 The “Little Rock Nine” students integrated into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, escorted by soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division

1959

 Cover of Time Magazine

September 27, 1963

 Marting Luther King, Jr.

1929-1968 (assassinated)

Malcom X

1925-1965 (assassinated)

 Prevalence of Ritual: Mysteries

Romare Bearden

1964

 Three Folk Musicians

Romare Bearden

1967

 Rockket to the Moon

Romare Bearden

1971

 Jack Johnson

Raymond Saunders

1972

 The Dance

Emilio Cruz

1962

 Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music

Alma Thomas

1976

 Swing

Sam Gilliam

1969

Arch

Sam Gilliam

1971