HARLEM RENAISSANCE
By
Ayanna Brandon
Fleans Dervishi
The New Negro Movement
• Unique culture
• Expression
• Funding
When
• Early 1900's
• Depression
• Harlem, New York
Literature & Theater Influences
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Broadway Plays
Music & Dance Influence
• Jazz
• Lindy Hop
Aaron Douglas
• Song of Towers
Jacob Lawrence
• My work is abstract in the sense of having been
designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the
sense of having no human content…I want to
communicate…I want the idea to strike right away."
Lasting Impact
• Culture
• Later Artist