Whitey Ford
12-13-2020, 02:14 PM
Cliff Joseph, Chicago artist, art therapist who corresponded with MLK, dead at 98
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote to him: ‘I have always felt, since I first saw it, your art expressed the meaning and sacrifice of our struggle.’
I haven't seen art of that magnitude since my 4th grade teacher taught us to fingerpaint.
https://i.imgur.com/OVAkpLc.jpg
Cliff Joseph already was an artist in 1963, but his work was transformed that year when he participated in the March on Washington and heard the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his ringing “I Have a Dream” speech.
“I was so moved . . . I decided I would get out of commercial art,” the Chicago artist told an interviewer. “If I hadn’t had the inspiration that I got through the civil rights movement, I might have remained there, but this really awakened me.”
I think you can all guess what kind of nigger art this 'genius' produced. LOL
An anti-Vietnam War work Mr. Joseph called “My Country Right or Wrong” features figures standing on skulls while wearing American flags as blindfolds.
In a haunting piece Mr. Joseph titled “Southern Comfort,” the heads of white-robed Ku Klux Klan figures make up the white stars on a Confederate flag superimposed over a lynching victim.
“Blackboard” depicts a Black teacher and student in front of a chalkboard with ABCs that begin by spelling the words “Ashanti,” “Black Power” and “Community Control.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/12/11/22168899/cliff-joseph-artist-mlk-martin-luther-king-nelson-mandela-obituary
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote to him: ‘I have always felt, since I first saw it, your art expressed the meaning and sacrifice of our struggle.’
I haven't seen art of that magnitude since my 4th grade teacher taught us to fingerpaint.
https://i.imgur.com/OVAkpLc.jpg
Cliff Joseph already was an artist in 1963, but his work was transformed that year when he participated in the March on Washington and heard the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his ringing “I Have a Dream” speech.
“I was so moved . . . I decided I would get out of commercial art,” the Chicago artist told an interviewer. “If I hadn’t had the inspiration that I got through the civil rights movement, I might have remained there, but this really awakened me.”
I think you can all guess what kind of nigger art this 'genius' produced. LOL
An anti-Vietnam War work Mr. Joseph called “My Country Right or Wrong” features figures standing on skulls while wearing American flags as blindfolds.
In a haunting piece Mr. Joseph titled “Southern Comfort,” the heads of white-robed Ku Klux Klan figures make up the white stars on a Confederate flag superimposed over a lynching victim.
“Blackboard” depicts a Black teacher and student in front of a chalkboard with ABCs that begin by spelling the words “Ashanti,” “Black Power” and “Community Control.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/12/11/22168899/cliff-joseph-artist-mlk-martin-luther-king-nelson-mandela-obituary