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Norman W. Lewis (July 23, 1909 – August 27, 1979) was an African-American painter, scholar, and teacher. He is associated with Abstract Expressionism. Lewis was African-American, of Bermudian descent. ==Early life and career== Norman Wilfred Lewis was born in Harlem, New York to Bermudan parents. Always interested in art, he had amassed a large art history library by the time he was a young man. A lifelong resident of Harlem, he also travelled extensively during the two years that he worked on ocean freighters. An important early influence was the sculptor and teacher Augusta Savage, who provided him with open studio space at her Harlem Art Center. He also participated in WPA art projects, alongside Jackson Pollock, among others. Lewis began his career in 1933, with earlier mostly figurative work. He at first painted what he saw, which ranged from ''Meeting Place (1930)'', a swap meet scene, and ''The Yellow Hat (1936)'', a formal Cubist painting, to ''Dispossessed (1940)'', an eviction scene, and ''Jazz Musicians (1948)'', a visual depiction of the bebop that was being played in Harlem. He also painted social realism, painting with "an overtly figural style, depicting bread lines, evictions, and police brutality." Lewis said he struggled to express social conflict in his art, but in his later years, focused on the inherently aesthetic. "The goal of the artist must be aesthetic development," he told art historian Kellie Jones in 1949, "and in a universal sense, to make in his own way some contribution to culture." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norman Lewis (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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