“Lawdy Mama” by Barkley Hendricks: Art about Being your True Self as a Natural Beauty
While touring European museums and churches in the ’60s, a 21-year-old Barkley Hendricks was struck by the lack of black presence in Western art. This inspired his now best known works: life-sized paintings of black people in empowered, classical depictions. These were friends, relatives and strangers, originally from his hometown of Philadelphia, that communicated a new assertiveness and pride among black Americans.
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