The New Birmingham and the Old Birmingham
1993
208.0 x 337.0 cm
Souls Grown Deep
Dial started The New Birmingham in 1993 after attending an outdoor concert by rock-’n’-roll pioneer Little Richard in a park in downtown Birmingham. Dial recalled an event from four decades earlier, when another black singer, Nat King Cole, was forced from his concert stage by local authorities and run out of town. In the map-like New Birmingham, the city resembles a side of beef, with skyscrapers for a rib cage. Side streets, darker than the pink center, contain gray, brown, and black neighborhoods arrayed like less desirable and tougher cuts of meat. The piece perfectly evokes Dial’s transition from his early narrative stance to the middle-period counter-narratives: on the one hand, there is an acknowledgment of some racial progress, but Dial implies that white business interests, not brotherhood, propel the integration.
Thornton Dial, Jr. (1952 –)
Thornton Dial Jr.: Odvážny assemblage umelec riešiaci sociálne a politické témy prostredníctvom monumentálnych diel. Preskúmajte témy rasy, histórie a prírody – pozrite si jeho silné umenie.
Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, Spojené štáty americké)
Objavte Souls Grown Deep: oslavu černošského umenia z amerického Juhu! Spoznajte prešívadlá Gee's Bend, assemblage umenie a inšpiratívne príbehy umelcov ako Thornton Dial a Lonnie Holley.
O tomto diele
- Názov: The New Birmingham and the Old Birmingham
- Umenec: Thornton Dial, Jr.
- Rok: 1993
- Pôvodné rozmery: 208.0 x 337.0 cm
- Formát: Landscape
- Stav autorských práv: Pod ochranou autorského práva
- Kde si ho pozrieť: Souls Grown Deep
- Odtieň farby: Green to Violet Spectrum
- Vnímaná jasnosť: balanced
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