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Kerry James Marshall
b. 1955
Kerry James Marshall’s objective through his art making is to insert or assert the black figurative painting into the traditional canon of art history. And by doing this, he alerts us to the absence of blackness in traditional Western art history although African people have been an integral part of Western culture for centuries. Through his artwork he attempts to capture the stylistic flair of black people’s natural actions like walking and talking with specific flair.
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