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Comparison of Van Gogh and Zora Neale Hurston In the early 1900's, African American literature, art, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem and
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In the early 1900's, African American literature, art, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem and this cultural movement became known as the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem Renaissance was more than just a movement but exalted the unique African-American culture and redefined African-American expression. During Post-Impressionism, the artists used vivid colors, thick applications of paint, distinctive brushstrokes, and real subject matter. This movement also leaned towards a more spiritual and expressive approach and wanted to add emotion and symbolic meaning to the art. These two radically different movements had a different way of looking at art and literature, but if were to compare the aesthetic concept from the Harlem Renaissance and Post-Impressionism, we might think of Vincent Van Gogh and Zora Neale Hurston. Writers and artists had their own forms of expressing thought and concerns but these two "artists" share a common interest for the common people and/or poor peasant people. Van Gogh was famous for his "Starry Night" and "La chambre de Van Gogh a Arles," but we might not be familiar with his first works he painted as a new developing artist. "Potato Eaters", which was heavily painted with mud-colored tones, attempted to represent the life of the poor eating potatoes in a poorly dim lit room wearing rag-like clothes. Hurston portrays the life of a poor black woman living with an adulterous and abusive husband in her short story, "Sweat." The heavy southern dialect that is present in the story made the story more credible for the readers to understand the life of the poor black woman. Though these are one of the similarities between these two "artists," they are other factors that make them similar in their aesthetic concepts.
Van Gogh was a man who was not known for his proportional figures or his realistic drawings. Instead he was known for his unique brush strokes and use of colors and his expressive style of painting. Van Gogh...
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