The Whole Art Nebula

Mixed media is the use of multiplematerials to make a statement. It’s all about layering. Sign up for my art history course: " Color, Memory andRevolution: 5 Black women who transformed visual art " - ⁠https://payhip.com/b/QndZY⁠ The course includes the course;workbook; curated image guide; glossary; the “How to Look at Art” guide andaudio notes. A Fat Slice of Cake on YouTube : ⁠https:/...

Composition is how artists arrange things with intention. The goal is make the viewer feel something, so that nothing seems accidental. Mini art history course: " Color, Memory andRevolution: 5 Black women who transformed visual art " - ⁠https://payhip.com/b/QndZY⁠ The mini course includes the course; workbook; curated image guide; glossary; the “How to Look at Art” guide and audio notes...

Abstract Expressionism, at its heart, is about freedom - freedom from rules, from representation, from the idea that art has to look like something to mean something. Sign up for my mini art history course: "Color, Memory and Revolution: 5 Black women who transformed visual art" - https://payhip.com/b/QndZY A Fat Slice of Cake on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@afatsliceofcake4030?si=05eAI...

What if a painting didn't need a subject? In the late 1940s a group of artists stripped everything back. No brushstrokes. No drama. Just expansive areas - or fields - of color. This is color field explained. Learn more about art history: Color, Memory and Revolution: 5 Black women who transformed visual art : https://payhip.com/b/QndZY

Big things are coming down the pipe. "Adventures with Bumthang," a children's educational show and a fantastic art history course that I'm very excited about. I'll also be releasing short videos explaining some important art movements. Adventures with Bumthang: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYJp2sMR4vOQ67_k_z5Cynw Color, Memory and Revolution: 5 Black women who transformed...

WARNING: Language in this episode may not be suitable for sensitive listeners. In this episode, I read from William Wells Brown's book from 1865 titled, The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements , focusing on the first part of the author's memoirs as he recounts his early life as a slave. TheWholeArtNebula.com Please consider supporting us with your generous donation....

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John Nelson Arnold believed that Edward Bannister’s artistic legacy would endure. He observed that Bannister approached nature with a poet’s sensibility, capturing skies, rocks, trees, and distances on canvas with both vigor and poetic beauty. Arnold predicted that over time, Bannister would be recognized as one of the leading American painters. In a time when American painting lagged behind Europ...

Despite the brevity of his career, Matt Baker left an indelible mark on the comic book industry. He challenged norms, shattered stereotypes, and paved the way for future generations of diverse artists. His artwork continues to inspire and influence contemporary creators, and he is recognized as a pioneer. Baker's contributions to the medium, particularly in depicting strong and empowered women...

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Henry Jones III, is back to help me talk about a specific work by Elizabeth Catlett. The sculpture it titled, "Homage to Black Women Poets." To view the work, please go to the website, TheWholeArtNebula.com. If you haven't listened to the episode on Elizabeth Catlett, please go back and listen to that episode when you get a chance. Support The Whole Art Nebula: https://kobina-wright.pixpa.com/prod...

Elizabeth Catlett lived a life creating work that addressed gender, racial and class inequities. In 1971 she wrote, “Art for me now must develop from a necessity within my people. It must answer a question, or wake somebody up, or give a shove in the right direction—our liberation.” Source Material: · Elizabeth Catlett @ MIA: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/7890/sharecropper-elizabeth-catlett...

Today we're joined by Henry Jones III and we're taking a deeper look and sharing our perspectives on a painting by John T. Biggers titled, "Shotguns." TheWholeArtNebula.com A Fat Slice of Cake: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCubSSuvmvefVB4FPBJi7uIQ/videos Two Three: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14965900/?ref_=nm_knf_i1

The motifs that John Thomas Biggers loved to explore centered around harvesting, planting, baptism and other rituals of rural Black communities. Also, he loved telling the story of the root system, the connectors of Black American life to the Motherland – whose children are the Earth’s caretakers. His murals evoke beauty and allowed us to see ourselves and our ancestors in them. They allow us to b...

Sculptor and ceramicist, Carroll Harris Simms, was born on April 29, 1924 in Bald Knob, Arkansas. A city that was named after a treeless rocky ridge that served as a landmark to pioneers.  Simms identified three major turning points in his development as a sculptor, “First the realization of certain permanent values which relate to the integrity of my grandparents inclusive of church folk and...

Alma Thomas was a curious and ever-expanding woman who painted in her kitchen. She was both a cheerleader and mentor for many young artists and instrumental in getting them recognition. She encouraged them to “get in the mainstream.” Slowed slightly by arthritis and a failing heart, she focused on what she could do with one solitary intense color and rolled around and blew through new ideas. She l...

Alma Woodsy Thomas was born on September 22, 1891, in Columbus, Georgia. This was 26 years after the Civil War. She would go on to help children explore the world of art and imagination and continue to educate herself in multiple disciplines.  It wasn't until after she retired that she began to consider herself an artist, although, in my opinion, she has been one all along. This is the first...

Duncanson accomplished a great deal having succeeded living as an artist as a Black man in a time of slavery. We have to look at his life as a whole to really be able to understand what a powerhouse he was and how phenomenal his achievements were not just as a pre-war Black Cincinnatian, but in the whole art nebula. Among the many sources used was the book, A History of African-American Artists Fr...

The second part of a three part series on the artist Robert S. Duncanson. Half of this episode covers the Cincinnati riots of 1841, but because this is the year that Duncanson arrived in Cincinnati, it's good to have context of the social climate that he was stepping into at the start of his artistic career.  TheWholeArtNebula.com Sources: · Bearden, Romare and Henderson, Harry, A History of...

I decided to really dig in and give you as much as I could, without going down a rabbit hole. So, unlike the other artists on this podcast, I’ve broken Robert S. Duncanson’s story into three parts. In this one, of course, I'll cover his earliest years – Please note, though, that I won’t go too early because there’s not a lot of information on his childhood. TheWholeArtNebula.com Sources : · A Hist...

Usually, we only talk about visual artists on this podcast however, I wanted to cover Hughes because of his prominence in the Harlem Renaissance and his inspiration to writers, poets, actors and artists in our community.  And today is his birthday! February 01, 1902. Here's the link to our film's crowdfunding campaign for "Two Three" by clicking here . Sources: Langston Hughes (1940). The Big...

"I try to work toward peace, to say that art is the meaning of love, that living on earth is a spiritual quest." -Louis Delsarte (Painter, draftsman, muralist, printmaker and poet)

This is Part II of the two part series on David C. Driskell. I’ve listed my sources for the last two episodes below. Also, when you get a chance, watch the HBO documentary titled, “Black Art: In the Absence of Light.” It’s based upon one of Driskell’s major exhibitions he organized and curated. Sources: Genzlinger, Neil  (April 7, 2020). “ David Driskell, 88, Pivotal Champion of African-Ameri...

We're breaking from our usual format this time. This is the first part of a two part series on the life and work of David C. Driskell. Driskell has done so much that there was no way I could feel comfortable cramming it into a single episode.  Excerpt: His student, Mary O’Neal, who later became a distinguished fine artist, but was only then a student and the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael,...

This episode is a little different. I consider it a "pre-episode" episode. It's more like an introduction into the work of David Driskell, the artist I'll be covering next on The Whole Art Nebula. In this, I discuss his work titled, "Jazz Singer (Lady of Leisure, Fox)" with my good friend ElleBeah. This is just a portion of a longer conversation. I've given access of the entire conversation to Pat...