Douglas created art during the 1960s that combined pop art influences from Warhol with imagery from comics and media culture to promote empowerment and revolution, merging art and political messages through a black aesthetic perspective both within and outside of contemporary art at the time.
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Exhibition catalogue
Original Title
Black Panther _ the Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
Douglas created art during the 1960s that combined pop art influences from Warhol with imagery from comics and media culture to promote empowerment and revolution, merging art and political messages through a black aesthetic perspective both within and outside of contemporary art at the time.
Douglas created art during the 1960s that combined pop art influences from Warhol with imagery from comics and media culture to promote empowerment and revolution, merging art and political messages through a black aesthetic perspective both within and outside of contemporary art at the time.
if we put that at the context of his time, it was at around the same time Warhol, with a similar
background, used big letters, colors and media culture to create his art, also familiar with comics as Douglas. Douglas took the same media culture and education to empower a revolution
within the sixties
vocabulary and contemporary art combining art and combat that merge