Sugar Shack Analysis

The reason I picked this work of art is because a lot of African Americans has some type of form or pictures of it. African Americans who was born through the 1950’s knew exactly what the artwork is and could relate to it. As a kid growing up, my father and grandmother had a duplicate of the Art. Also another reason I picked, the sugar shack it’s so much history in the painting. At first glance you can see a Marvin Gaye banner is hanging up in the painting. As one of the icons, especially having one of his hits on the banner “I want you” with being be connected to the picture shows how well how many people enjoyed Marvin gaye. From my point of view everybody must be over the age of 21 in the picture. Most of the men that's in the picture
As you could see in the paint, it’s like a freeze frame of the exact movement of each person enjoying the night. They would have a live band, people drinking, talking, altogether just having an amazing night with one and another. From My point of view you could tell that night like this wouldn’t come by everyday like how it is today, so everybody that is in the shack living it like it’s the last time having fun. The Sugar Shack is such a great artwork because of how Iconic it is to world. From the Artwork I could relate it to so many different eras by the way it looks. Each generation has its own spin on it from how technology has impress over the years by showing proof of this. Looking at this painting, everybody is moving in rhythm together like the New Jack swing Era. During the New Jack Swing Era, people was dancing together all once and having a great time while music playing and the party or event was going
was born on July 15, 1938 in Durham, North Carolina. He was the son of Ernest Barnes Sr. and Fannie Mae Geer. His father worked for a tobacco company while his mother worked for Frank L. Fuller jr. who was a local Board of education member and Durham attorney(Black Biography). Ernest Barnes also went by the name June which was given by his father. He got two younger brothers, who are James and Benjamin. Ernest “ June” Barnes Jr went to many racially divide schools. In 1956, he graduated high school with over 20 scholarship offers for football ,but Segregation obstructed him from going to predominantly white institutions which was the University of North Carolina or Duke University. So he went to an all black school to continue his education(Black