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Industrial Revolution

1800Romanticism Hudson River School Early Photography Barbizon School Pre Raphaelites Realism Impressionism Meiji Art Early Modernism Post-Impressionism1900

Harlem Renaissance

1918 — 1936

An explosion of black culture in America

Defiance, from The Emperor Jones series

Aaron Douglas, 1926

Flight, from The Emperor Jones series

Aaron Douglas, 1926

The Creation

Aaron Douglas, 1927

The Judgment Day

Aaron Douglas, 1927

Into Bondage

Aaron Douglas, 1936

Girl with Yellow Hat

Norman Lewis, 1936

Aspiration

Aaron Douglas, 1936

The Judgment Day

Aaron Douglas, 1939

Meeting Place

Norman Lewis, 1941

Title unknown (Subway)

Norman Lewis, 1945

Song of the Towers

Aaron Douglas, 1966

Projections of determination

Aaron Douglas

Constructivism
Art should only serve society.