Harlem Painting

This piece is an example of a abstract harlem renaissance painting, it's symbolic of the hardships for African americans that got them to the point of which the where respected as musicians and able to find jobs which weren't hard labor. Some of the generation that later joined the Harlem Renaissance had actually experienced slavery, and some of the generation before that had actually experienced Africa. Paintings like this are just trying to keep records of their history with a creative, artistic perception of it.

The Upbeat colors, the desert looking background, and the plates of food suggest a small village in Africa thriving on resources. Assuming this is a abstract portrait of africa it would be logical to think that this piece was done by someone who was of African Decent and had an emotional attachment to their homeland.

Harlem Renaissance paintings usually have a degree of abstraction to them, but if not the have at least a little bit of exaggeration within them. In this particular piece the skin tone of the people exaggeratedly dark.