Since the early 1990s, curators of art institutions have been increasingly trying to establish the principle of racial inclusiveness, which means putting works by one or two of the colorful artists in group shows, or holding galleries focusing on race and color.

But these symbols were not enough, as color artists wanted more positions of influence and ways of empowering them to talk about their personal experiences, and influence more in the art world in depth and not their presence as boxes or just a number of propaganda against racism.

Despite the influence of African-American artists on shaping the visual culture of the United States, due to their family and social backgrounds, and their personal experiences that inspired American art, they have not been adequately identified with their talents, contributions, and accomplishments.

Fortunately, the contemporary audience has become very interested in the diversity of the arts, which has prompted museums, libraries and other cultural institutions to shed light on the work of African American artists. Below is a list that includes a group of the most important of these artists:

Joshua Johnson

Artist Joshua Johnson (1736-1832) lived in Baltimore, was a portrait painter, and he knew little about his social background. He has more than 100 portraits attributed to him in his style characterized by simple background and faces drawn by placing three quarters of "trokar" with the presence of fruits, flowers and fields Crops.

Johnson is the first African-American artist known as a professional artist to have excavated an important path, and opened the door to many creators later. Land records indicate that Johnson was a landlord in Montgomery, Frederick, and Ann Arundel counties in Maryland after 1824, and those records demonstrate the fact that Johnson was financially successful in his career.

Augusta Savage

In 1918 a pioneering art movement appeared in New York City known as the "Renaissance of Harlem". In this golden age, Harlem became a center of art, literature and music for African Americans, and artist Augusta Savage made significant contributions to that art movement.

Savage (1892-1962) was born in Florida, moved to New York City in 1921, and received a scholarship to learn arts. After receiving a certificate of completion, the Harlem Library asked her to create a bust of civil activist and author "WEB DU BOIS" ), And put Savage statue on the map of professional American artists.

The name Savage is associated with its important role in the Renaissance Art movement in Harlem. She co-founded the Harlem Artists Syndicate, an organization that advised African-American artists in the city. In 1937 she established the Harlem Center for Community Arts, provided sculpting lessons, and helped open the way for many Among the African American artists, the most important of them is Jacob Lawrence.

Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence was born in New Jersey (1917-2000), and at the age of 23 he finished his own set of paintings entitled Grand Immigration. This colorful set of paintings tells the story of the mass exodus of six million African Americans, fleeing from the secluded, enclosed south to urban areas in all Over the country.

This Laurence collection is a milestone in the history of modern art, and an important example of the way in which history was radically redrawn. After the success of this sixty-series series, Lawrence continued to document the African-American experience artfully in a number of projects.

Lawrence also taught at many universities, received various accolades and awards, and was the first African American artist whose paintings appear in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and in 1990 he received the American National Medal of Art.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat is among the most famous American artists and contemporary art figures in the world. Basquiat was born in 1960 in Brooklyn to a mother from Puerto Rico and a father from Haiti, and in his teenage he helped spread and generalize the idea of ​​street art, as he carried out artworks from graffiti in Group and individual art shows.

Despite his tragic death at the age of only 28 years, he left a stunning artistic legacy to this day on the subjects of slavery and oppression, and his art focused on divisions such as wealth versus poverty, and integration versus apartheid.

Basquiat used social commentary by poetic and rhetorical means in his paintings as a tool for meditation and knowledge of the experiences of the black community in his era, as well as attacks on power structures and racist regimes. His works can be found in the most important museums and galleries around the world, and they are sold for tens of millions of dollars, in a precedent that has not happened much to artists of colored origins.