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6. European artists discovered African art in the late 19th century, and its influence and impact was sometimes more than tremendous.  Such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Vlaminck, Dorian and other made conscious use of its idiom.

7. The 1920s produced the New Negro Movement, sometimes referred to as the Negro Renaissance or the Harlem Renaissance since Harlem was its mecca.  Afro-American artists, writers, poets, and scholars joined the musicians in documenting the creative potential of Black America.

8. That early intellectual leadership came from such great Afro-Americans as Howard university's Alain Locke, W.E.B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, Franklin Frazier, James Porter who was a fine painter as well and many others.  The spirit of this first wave of cultural racialism was concisely stated by the poet Langston Hughes: "We younger Negro artists intend to express our individual dark skinned selves without fear or shame."

9. Aaron Douglas was considered the official mural painter of the "Harlem Renaissance."  Archibald Motley helped to raise the level of Negro portraiture to a respectable standard.  Richmond Barthe' was sculptor of the day.