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...... In another of his series paintings, called Rhythm Mastr, done in the style of a comic strip, a stereotypical young black hero is shown battling the nameless bureaucracies that are conspiring to tear down housing in the boys neighborhood, according to an article in Art Monthly. The work Rhythm Mastr was painted on newspaper and was originally displayed in random order on gallery windows in the U.S., in order to echo the use of a newspaper as a means of blocking the view into empty buildings, the Art Monthly article explains. The idea of an empty department store building with the windows blocked out by newspaper is a metaphor for the blight that is often found in the inner city
What is the social approach Kerry James Marshall takes when hes creating his art? In an interview with a reporter from the journal Callaloo (Rowell, 1998) artist Marshall was asked if in fact he is reinventing an artistic style in order to present black people in a positive light (offsetting the maliciously distorted image of black folks that some American artists present). Marshall replied that yes, there has been a tradition of negative representation of black people,

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