![]() ![]() I think her work has resonated to other artists and nonartists alike for decades and I don’t think it can be measured or quantified, actually. Oprah Winfrey: I have Toni on the heart right now, and I can’t think of anybody else who actually has had the cultural impact that she has in the past 20 years, because I believe that she’s the root spring from which all other influences that I might name flow, like Colson Whitehead, Ta-Nehisi, Jacqueline Woodson. But, as these artists are about to explain, they amount to what someone like Beyoncé knows well: homecoming. Maybe these two decades of fertility and surprise constitute new territory. So while the power these artists have attained might be a breakthrough, the primacy energizing their art is centuries old. ![]() Ever since, the struggle for black artists has been to wrest control of their own culture, to present themselves, in all of their complexity, diversity, innovation and idiosyncrasy, and represent one another, as rebuke, as celebration, as advancement. These are edited excerpts from the conversations.įrom the start, black people have been at the center of American popular culture - essentially because white people placed them there, through imitation and mockery and fascination. So we asked 35 major African-American creators from different worlds (film, art, TV, music, books and more) to talk about the work that has inspired them the most over the past two decades: “Atlanta,” “Moonlight,” “Get Out,” “A Seat at the Table,” “Double America 2,” and on and on. They adjusted the way the entire country can look at itself. You can sense that convergence haunting the fiction of Jesmyn Ward.įor eight years, all sorts of black artists sailed through the White House, and shaped the depiction of black America, by thinking transcendently, trenchantly, truthfully. You can see the imprint of the Barack Obama presidency on “Black Panther” Black Lives Matter on Beyoncé the country’s prison crisis on Kendrick Lamar. That convergence was evident in the farce of “Chappelle’s Show” on the pair of albums D’Angelo released 14 years apart. It’s the first time since the 1970s that black art, history and political life have come together in such a broad, profound and diverse way. ![]() In other words, the architectural transposition of its creator's soul.Over the past 20 years, a new vanguard of African-American creators has helped define the 21st century. Marco’s aesthetic is the direct result of his diverse background, formed between etching and dry-tip techniques, with a strong crepuscular and poetic allure.More than a simple tattoo studio, PVRO is a Wunderkammer whose treasures are antiques, ex-votos, anatomical art, decorations and symbols, all tokens of Marco’s journeys, kept in a welcoming and evocative chest of strong syncretism. ![]() Marco creates unique tattoo designs: clean and slim, exclusively in black, his strong, personal drawing style is matched by Marco’s extreme attention to details, through which he delivers sophisticated works of powerful and elegant imagination. As a natural evolution of such path, Marco approached the world of tattooing in 2014 and soon decided to dedicate his career to this art. He then went on working as a decorator and interior designer for Segno studio based in Novara, as well as starting to deal in antiques (as a trader and collector). After graduating at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, began his artistic career as a restorer of castles, churches and prestigious houses with his company “Il senso del decoro”. ![]()
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