Art Movement : Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance : The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African-American social thought and culture based in the African-American community forming in Harlem in New York City (USA). This period, extending from roughly 1920 to 1940, was expressed through every cultural medium—visual art, dance, music, theatre, literature, poetry, history and politics.

Major Artists : * Romare Bearden * John T. Biggers * Edward Burra * Aaron Douglas * Palmer Hayden * Sargent Claude Johnson * William H. Johnson * Loïs Mailou Jones * Jacob Lawrence * Archibald Motley * Hale Woodruff

Art Movements List

Abstract Expressionism | Ancient & Classical Art | Art Deco | Art Nouveau | Arts & Crafts Movement | Ashcan School | Baroque | Bauhaus | Black Mountain College | Bloomsbury Group | Constructivism | Cubism | Dada | De Stijl | Der Blaue Reiter | Expressionism | Fauvism | Fluxus | Futurism | Group of Seven | Harlem Renaissance | Hudson River School | Impressionism | Indian River School | Mannerism | Medieval & Gothic Art | Minimalism | Modernism | Nabis | Neo-Classical | Neo-Expressionism | Op-Art | Pop Art | Post-Impressionism | Post-Modernism | Pre-Raphaelites | Realism | Renaissance | Rococo | Romanticism | Situationism | Surrealism | Symbolism

Artist Profiles

Brueghel, Pieter | Caravaggio | Chihuly, Dale | David, Jacques-Louis | Dufy, Raoul | Escher, M.C. | Gauguin, Paul | Klee, Paul | Wyeth, Andrew