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Web of Life, 1958 (tempera on wood)

Web of Life, 1958 (tempera on wood)
20th-century
agriculture
1950s
tree
art
waterfall
field
seashell
colour
USA
North-America
America-(continent)
nature
african-american
painting
fish
animal
mzpainting
blossom
organism
mural
sewing
nature
male
earth
sun
united-states-of-america
20th-century
agriculture
1950s
tree
art
waterfall
field
seashell
colour
USA
North-America
America-(continent)
nature
african-american
painting
fish
animal
mzpainting
blossom
organism
mural
sewing
nature
male
earth
sun
united-states-of-america
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Web of Life, 1958 (tempera on wood)

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Artist

Biggers, John (1924-2001) / American
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Location

Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

Medium

tempera on wood

Date

1958 AD (C20th AD)

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55.9x233.7 cms

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This work is the final design for a twenty-six-foot mural, Web of Life (Texas Southern University Art Gallery, Houston), for the Nabrit Science Hall at Texas Southern University. John Biggers described its subject as “the interdependence of living organisms in the balance of nature, and the relationship of all organisms to one another through the long line of evolutionary descent.” Biggers centered the image on an essential earth mother, from whom creation expands in a delicately described network of lifeforms and sequential seasonal settings. Throughout, he paired oppositional references to life and death (winter and summer), male and female (the two nudes), and Africa and America (in vignettes of harvest and sowing). A leading twentieth-century African American painter and muralist, Biggers drew inspiration from the Mexican Mural Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, while also infusing the composition with the kind of organic, cellular design that was so current in midcentury American art.

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Photo © Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Museum Fund for African American Art and Florence B. and Carl L. Selden Fund / Bridgeman Images

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