Fourteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society

Abstract

During the 20th Century African American Art murals reflected the conscious of social and political revolution that the United States and civilization were going through. The African-American artists, Aaron Douglas and Hale Woodruff used the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera’s strategy, but tailored it towards the context of African-American life to concerns to the general public, especially the African-American communities. An important chapter in the 20th century art known as the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to Aaron Douglas as a muralist. During this time Aaron Douglas adopted his signature abstract style of traditional African imagery, which resembled the murals of Ancient Egypt. Aaron Douglas composed expansive murals that the daily struggles of African-American society in the 20th century. In pictorial form Aaron Douglas murals takes the viewer on an historical journey of the black experience.