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Controversial Art in History
People view art differently, and they have different opinions of what the artist is trying to convey when they view the art. When the general public and art experts analyse art, their differences of opinion can cause great controversy. What makes one piece of art controversial, and another one not
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The New Deal
Ernest Hamlin Baker’s The Activities of the Narragansett Planters is one of hundreds of post office murals created in the New Deal Era. [1] In order to help Americans recover from the Great Depression in the 1930s President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated a series of economic and cultural reforms across
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Murals from the 1930s
In the late1930s when Baker painted the figures of black slaves in his mural, The Activities of the Narragansett Planters, three contemporary trends for depicting race in bodies in public murals were thriving in the U.S.A. As a popular, ambitious New York illustrator, Baker was certainly aware of these stylistic