Our Town
1995
256.0 x 363.0 cm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Kerry James Marshall’s work often explores themes of racial identity, community, and belonging. Our Town is part of his Garden Project series, in which low-income housing projects are ironically rendered as idyllic places. The carefully painted houses, manicured lawn, and bright sky coexist uneasily with graffiti scribbles and trees tied with yellow ribbons, suggesting war or tragedy.Marshall contrasts the tidy scene, dominated by red, white, and blue, with deep black paint and minimal shading on the figures. Here, he emphasizes the blackness of his subjects in an art world that notably lacks images of African Americans. Our Town further evokes Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play of the same title, posing the question: for whom does this American ideal really exist?
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, 美国)
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关于此作品
- 标题: Our Town
- 艺术家: Kerry James Marshall
- 年份: 1995
- 原尺寸: 256.0 x 363.0 cm
- 格式: Landscape
- 版权状态: 版权保护中
- 所在地: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
- 色彩色调: Blue-Violet to Rose
- 感知亮度: bright
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