![]() ![]() Marshall was born 10 years before the Civil Rights Act was passed in Birmingham, Alabama. In so doing, he has established himself not only among the giants of the black art milieu, but as one of the most influential American artists anywhere,” Grant Hill, the former NBA player, told TIME. The 61-year old luminary has made it his mission to tackle the marginalization of black people in American society, relentlessly challenging viewers to “assess the American experience through the black experience. Kerry James Marshall is renown for his paintings that exclusively depict African-Americans. Marshall professed that the painting was inspired by Ralph Ellison’s novel “The Invisible Man.”įrank ocean’s “Lens” cover / kerry james marshall’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former /8iMBnWNpRZ Ocean’s cover draws many similarities to KJM’s aforesaid painting with the key parallel being a gap-toothed figure as the subject of both pieces.
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