8th Grade: Jazz Instraments

Jazz Paintings

Essential Question: How does music influence Visual Arts?

 

            The Jazz Age (also known as the Golden age or the Roaring Twenties) was a feature of the 1920’s when Jazz music and dance became popular. In the 1920’s- everyone seemed to have money to spend.

The young set themselves free especially, the young women. They shocked the older generation with their new hair style (a short bob) and the clothes that they wore were often much shorter than had been seen and tended to expose their legs and knees. The wearing of what were considered skimpy beach wear in public could get the Flappers, as they were known, arrested for indecent exposure. They wore silk stockings rolled just above the knee and they got their hair cut at male barbers. The President of Florida University said the low cut gowns and short skirts "are born of the devil they are carrying the present generation to destruction".

Aaron Douglas was an African American painter from Topeka, Kansas. Douglas was heavily influenced by the African culture he painted for. His natural talent plus his newly acquired inspiration allowed Douglas to be considered the "Father of African American arts." That title led him to say," Do not call me the Father of African American Arts, for I am just a son of Africa, and paint for what inspires me."

Douglas was an important part of the circle of artists and writers we now call the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance helped lay the foundation for the post-World War II phase of the Civil Rights Movement. Moreover, many black artists who rose to creative maturity afterward were inspired by this literary movement.

VOCAB:

Analagous colors: next to each other on the color wheel. These colors will have a common base color. For instance: blue, blue-violet, and violet. Another example is yellow-green, green, and blue-green.