“Five Artists,” highlights five African American artists Charles White, a painter, Romare Bearden, a collage artist, Barbara Chase-Riboud, a sculptor living in France, Richard Hunt, a sculptor from Chicago, and Betty Blayton director of the Moma Art School in Harlem. All have found their own unique ways to express their creativity and have hurtled barriers to follow their passions. How they go about creating their work, what inspires them, their viewpoints on life and race, and serves, ultimately, as a beautiful portrait on expressive contemporary art and sculpture.
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Five Artists
Five Artists
Produced: 1971
Length: 30 Minutes
“Five Artists,” highlights five African American artists Charles White, a painter, Romare Bearden, a collage artist, Barbara Chase-Riboud, a sculptor living in France, Richard Hunt, a sculptor from Chicago, and Betty Blayton director of the Moma Art School in Harlem. All have found their own unique ways to express their creativity and have hurtled barriers to follow their passions. How they go about creating their work, what inspires them, their viewpoints on life and race, and serves, ultimately, as a beautiful portrait on expressive contemporary art and sculpture.
