Library Art

The piece I enjoyed most at the library is a painting by Dewey Crumpler called, African Human Soup.


In this painting it shows a man eating soup made of African people. The painting shows a white male pouring "human soup" made of black men into a bowl. The thermos the soup is being poured from has red on the bottom of it and the of the thermos which is also red lays under the thermos in the left has corner. A man in the bowl on the right said of the painting is wearing a red shirt.

The blue in the painting brings a sense depression and sorrow while the red frames the black men, bringing the saucer full of human soup to the eye's attention.

I admire this piece because of it brings a sense of awareness and sadness about discrimination and oppression towards Africans. The nonchalant look on the white man’s face as he pours out the desperate and crippled men speaks volumes about the power white males had over blacks.