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Blog 12

Chicago Cultural Center

Norman Lewis

    Lewis was not only an important member of the Harlem art community, but an active contributor to abstract expressionist innovation that generated immense excitement among avant-garde artists downtown.

     Here is my favorite photo that Lewis has done. Plus, it has been said that this photo has do to with the hardships that black people had been through from the society where they live in. I can see how desperate and lost this guy is felling here. It was not hard for Lewis to forget what his people experienced and felt left out for years and years

Lewis was indeed an inspirational and ambitious artist who gained the love of the black people after he down one of the most controversial photo that was shocked millions of people around the world. Again the guy saw his people being killed and discriminated against and he had no other chose to defiant his people accept by his skills. However, he had apologized later for this photo and said artists shouldn’t mix politics with art.