The Art of the Harlem Renaissance was the product of the African-American art and literary movement in the neighborhood of Harlem in the uptown Manhattan. Alain Locke’s book “The New Negro” encouraged the black artists to retrieve their ancestral birthright as their means of strengthening their expression. African-American embraced all forms of art including painting, [...]

Harlem Renaissance prospered from early 1920 to 1940. It was an African-American’s expression of social thought and culture which occurred in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City, a newly-formed Black community. Named after The New Negro anthology, it was better known as the “New Negro Movement”. It was expressed through every cultural dance, [...]

One of the most distinctive aspects of Renaissance art was its advancement of greatly realistic linear perspective. The advancement of perspective was a part of the growing shift towards realism in artworks like paintings and sculptures. Different factors like light and shadow were studied by artists during the Renaissance period. Through applying the principles of [...]

Early Renaissance covered the period from 1400 to 1500. This period depicted artists as craftsman and arts were created by commission and imitation. This period was characterized by workshop system where there were collaborations between masters and apprentices, artworks were run like businesses and were commonly family-based. Artists who were product of this workshop system [...]

Italian Renaissance is a period of great Cultural Revolution in Europe. It marks the transition from Medieval and Early Modern Europe. It was one of the most rewarding periods in art’s history in major fields like sculpture, painting and architecture. It had been known for its cultural achievements. It helped starts the Renaissance Period through [...]