Short Story Illustration - One Friday Morning
Format
Senior Art and Design Exhibition
Faculty Mentor Name
Jeniffer Little
Faculty Mentor Department
Art & Graphic Design
Additional Faculty Mentor Name
Lucinda Kasser
Additional Faculty Mentor Department
Art & Graphic Design
Abstract/Artist Statement
This narrative series of oil paintings depicts the pivotal moments of a short story written by Langston Hughes entitled “One Friday Morning.” This series of six paintings tells the story of an African American high school student in the 1940’s named Nancy Lee. She is an artist who wins a scholarship award for a painting she created, but her award taken away from her when the institution that awarded it to her it learns her race is African American.
Each of these paintings was carefully composed to depict the details delineated within the short story. Thea artworks of great African American artists such as Jacob Lawrence and William H. Johnson inspired me to bring out the colorful expressions within my scenes and taught me how to paint a narrative scene with a focus on movement, emotion and color using abstraction in place of representation.
Location
Reynolds Gallery
Start Date
23-4-2017 6:00 PM
End Date
12-5-2017 6:00 PM
Short Story Illustration - One Friday Morning
Reynolds Gallery
This narrative series of oil paintings depicts the pivotal moments of a short story written by Langston Hughes entitled “One Friday Morning.” This series of six paintings tells the story of an African American high school student in the 1940’s named Nancy Lee. She is an artist who wins a scholarship award for a painting she created, but her award taken away from her when the institution that awarded it to her it learns her race is African American.
Each of these paintings was carefully composed to depict the details delineated within the short story. Thea artworks of great African American artists such as Jacob Lawrence and William H. Johnson inspired me to bring out the colorful expressions within my scenes and taught me how to paint a narrative scene with a focus on movement, emotion and color using abstraction in place of representation.