Question

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement during the 1920s. Explain the different forms of art impacted during this movement. Who was involved and what were some of the most lasting works to come out of it? What was the biggest and most lasting impact of this movement?

Answer 1

'The New Negro Movement' as it was called during its time,the Harlem Renaissance was essentially the flowering of a unique African-American culture.different forms of art imapcted were art, poems, music dance plays etc

art and artists:

• often featured bold colors arranged in an expressionist fashion
• many of these pieces potray educated well to do African Americans dancing ,making music dining etc
• Palmer c Hayden is a prime example of this type of potrayal
• other egs are Archibald j Motley whose painting blues shows African Americans enjoying dance and music
• William Henry was one of the most important artists

poets and authors

• Sterling A Brown published 'southern rail road' a book of origial poetry centering on rural,folk themes.

most influential figures of the Harlem Renaisssance was Langston Hughes. he was a profilic writer whose poems,articles and books had a tremendous impact on the movement.he also helped pioneer jazz poetry ,a genre of poetry that emphasised syncopated rhythms that were in many ways reminiscent of jazz music

biggest and lasting impact was to make clear that issues of race and racial identity are never entirely clear. the conflicting view of race that is brought out through the movement helped to humanize African Americans to a society that saw them in reductive and terms that made them caricatures of human beings. it displayed that issue of race was conflicting ,empowering,painful,agonizing and beautiful.it presented racial identity as reflective of the complexity of human beings

lasting works of power of Hurtson,the sorrow of cullen,the intricacies of Hughes and the metropolitan nature of McKay were all egs of vision of race that emerged from the Harlem Renaissance