George Washington Carver: From Slave To Scientist - opinion
Coco Chanel? Mae West? Ingrid Bergman? Albert Camus? Abraham Lincoln? Edwin M. Lucius E. George Washington Carver: From Slave To ScientistA Black man born in the s into slavery, Carver went on to become a pioneering agricultural scientist at the Tuskagee Institute, and his innovations would go on to help struggling sharecroppers in the South, many of them former slaves.
Traditional history paintings such as George Washington Crossing the Delaware were click by the wealthy and powerful elite in order to commemorate a historical event. Standing before George Washington Carver, Colescott calls to question the beliefs and mythology that grounds every aspect of our national identity, and, more poignantly, what voices and which demographics were left out of those narratives. In the early s, Colescott travelled to Cairo, Egypt, where he spent several years studying and teaching.
The artist returned to the United States in the mids to a county embroiled in the social and political tensions of the Civil Rights Movement. Excited by the different approaches to art he encountered in Egypt and dissatisfied with the narrow narrative scope offered by abstraction — especially as an African American within the heightened sociopolitical landscape — Colescott radically embraced a new figurative style and subject matter in his work. George Washington Carver emerges from the groundbreaking moment in which Colescott radically embraced this new mode, and masterfully captures the artist at the inception of his creative artistic brilliance. Three years after Sotheby's record-shattering offering of Kerry James Marshall's iconic Past Times in MayGeorge Washington Carver represents another crucial market-defining moment for one of the twentieth century's most celebrated African American painters.]
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