brotherkahlil:Fahamu Pecou | The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USAAmerican, born 1975Native Tongu
brotherkahlil:Fahamu Pecou | The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USAAmerican, born 1975Native Tongue / Ogbe Oyeku, 2015Acrylic and gold leaf on canvasCourtesy of the artist For this painting, Fahamu Pecou took as his inspiration Negro Digest, the first publication of Johnson Publishing Company. Negro Digest was initially conceived in 1942 as an alternative to Reader’s Digest, and in a second incarnation served as an important voice in the Black Arts movement. At the center of the painting, Pecou placed a self portrait, which operates as a commentary on contemporary and historical black masculinity. -- source link