Modern Heroics Analysis

The exhibition Modern Heroics: 75 Years of African-American Expressionism at the Newark Museum compiles works from the Newark Museum’s permanent collection of African-American art and works on loan to the museum. On the Newark Museum’s website they make note that “Modern Heroics brings together rarely exhibited works by leading historical and contemporary African-American artists, placing in dialogue several generations and a range of self-taught and formally trained approaches.” The Abstract expressionist style has associated itself with a sense of rebellion, spontaneity and automation creation. In a postwar American society, that had a high standard of racism, the people who had the ability to abstain from societal norms and associate