Our Town
1995
256.0 x 363.0 cm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Kerry James Marshall’s work often explores themes of racial identity, community, and belonging. Our Town is part of his Garden Project series, in which low-income housing projects are ironically rendered as idyllic places. The carefully painted houses, manicured lawn, and bright sky coexist uneasily with graffiti scribbles and trees tied with yellow ribbons, suggesting war or tragedy.Marshall contrasts the tidy scene, dominated by red, white, and blue, with deep black paint and minimal shading on the figures. Here, he emphasizes the blackness of his subjects in an art world that notably lacks images of African Americans. Our Town further evokes Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play of the same title, posing the question: for whom does this American ideal really exist?
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية)
استكشف الفن الأمريكي المذهل في متحف كريستال بريدجز للفنون في بينتونفيل، أركنساس! دخول مجاني، وجولات في منزل فرانك لويد رايت ومناظر طبيعية خلابة لجبال الأوزارك تنتظرك.
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- العنوان: Our Town
- الفنان: Kerry James Marshall
- السنة: 1995
- الأبعاد الأصلية: 256.0 x 363.0 cm
- النمط: Landscape
- حالة حقوق النشر: محمي بموجب حقوق الطبع والنشر
- أين يمكن مشاهدتها: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
- درجة اللون: Green to Violet Spectrum
- السطوع المدرك: bright