Kara Walker, an African American contemporary artist, uses historic
events and racial stigmas/ stereotypes as inspiration for her artwork. Rather
than create artwork to achieve beauty like most artist, she creates art because
she has a story to tell. She is known for creating black and white silhouette
paintings the size of walls that invoke numerous themes regarding African
American such as race, wars, love, etc.
Kara
Walkers work relates to current racial tensions and ideas in our society. Walker
uses her workspace and incorporates her audience, her chosen medium in a way
that ties the past with the present together. In her piece “insurrection! Our
Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On!” the use of an overhead projector
brings Walker’s audience into a violent slave revolt, making them not just
witnesses but unwilling spectators to a brutal murder. "Walker's images
are really about racism in the present, and the vast social and economic
inequalities that persist in dividing America. More like riddles than
one-liners, these are complex, multi-layered works that reveal their meaning
slowly and over time."
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