Kerry James Marshall works hard to change the face of the western cannon by painting black figures from everyday life “The idea of those paintings,” Marshall told me, “is that blackness is non-negotiable in those pictures. It’s also unequivocal — they are black — that’s the thing that I mean for people to identify immediately. They are black to demonstrate that blackness can have complexity. Depth. Richness.” "The blacks[referring to colors of paint in article] in Marshall’s paintings have an absolute value, if you see what I mean, and what he means: blacks into which not a drop of white is added — a working method that’s also, clearly, an essential conceptual feature."

Don't u hate it when people judge a book by its cover like how a person judges u by ur looks, even if u do the same