Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
The Met Breurer 2016-2017
Notes:
Vignette series; depicting moments of black romance. Fairytale whimsy and imagery Ć” la references to the rococo styleĀ
āMarshall holds this idea that abstraction could provide creative freedom for black artists in tension with his belief in the importance of black figurative painting... insertion of black figures into the cannon.ā
āemancipation from racial interpretationsā
Black Painting depicts the moments before Black Panther, Fred Hamiltonās murder.Ā āIf they come in the morningā by Angela Davis is on the night stand














