Langston Hughes And August Savage Comparison
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The artists that I have chosen are Langston Hughes and Augusta Savage. Their works of art that I am going to discuss are Langston Hughes’ short story entitled ONE FRIDAY MORNING, and Savage’s sculpture of THE HARP.
As indicated in the handouts, Hughes was born on February 1, 1902. While Augusta Savage who was 10 years older was born on February 29, 1892.
The 3 criteria I have integrated in my paper are the biographical information, medium, and theme.
First, for the biography; among the similarities are both had to do low-paying job prior to their popularity as an artist. Another similarity is both received scholarships. Hughes received from Lincoln University, and Savage from Julius Rosenwald Fellowship. Another similarity was …show more content…
In the short story, the young colored girl was denied of scholarship because of her race, but the young girl did not give up despite of the rejection she experienced. Similarly, the harp was inspired from the song Lift Every Voice and Sing written by James Weldon Johnson. The song referred discrimination as “dark past”. In addition, the harp symbolizes of unity and singing in one voice to achieve equality and liberty.
These two artists did not have direct collaboration, but they are associated because they evolved in the same environment, the Harlem art. Savage position as assistant director of Works Progress Administration, and Director of Harlem Community Art Center made it possible for her to associate with all the Harlem artists including Langston Hughes.
Finally, in response to Dr. Davis’ call for a unique information about the artists, I came across with an information that I did not include in my paper for a reason that I could not corroborate it with our official source which is the San Jac Library. This is about Langston Hughes, Historians argued that Langston Hughes is asexual (unattracted to either sex) or he was attracted to men based on his unpublished
The artists that I have chosen are Langston Hughes and Augusta Savage. Their works of art that I am going to discuss are Langston Hughes’ short story entitled ONE FRIDAY MORNING, and Savage’s sculpture of THE HARP.
As indicated in the handouts, Hughes was born on February 1, 1902. While Augusta Savage who was 10 years older was born on February 29, 1892.
The 3 criteria I have integrated in my paper are the biographical information, medium, and theme.
First, for the biography; among the similarities are both had to do low-paying job prior to their popularity as an artist. Another similarity is both received scholarships. Hughes received from Lincoln University, and Savage from Julius Rosenwald Fellowship. Another similarity was …show more content…
In the short story, the young colored girl was denied of scholarship because of her race, but the young girl did not give up despite of the rejection she experienced. Similarly, the harp was inspired from the song Lift Every Voice and Sing written by James Weldon Johnson. The song referred discrimination as “dark past”. In addition, the harp symbolizes of unity and singing in one voice to achieve equality and liberty.
These two artists did not have direct collaboration, but they are associated because they evolved in the same environment, the Harlem art. Savage position as assistant director of Works Progress Administration, and Director of Harlem Community Art Center made it possible for her to associate with all the Harlem artists including Langston Hughes.
Finally, in response to Dr. Davis’ call for a unique information about the artists, I came across with an information that I did not include in my paper for a reason that I could not corroborate it with our official source which is the San Jac Library. This is about Langston Hughes, Historians argued that Langston Hughes is asexual (unattracted to either sex) or he was attracted to men based on his unpublished