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Art greatly influenced the Harlem Renaissance and because art could be used as a way to express what people were feeling and for what they did not necessarily have words for. Instead of using direct political means, African-American artists, writers, and musicians employed culture to work for the goal of equality. Its legacy is that for the first time across racial lines, African-American paintings, writings, and jazz became absorbed into mainstream culture. ======

James van Der Vee He arrived in Harlem as a violinist. He formed and played in the Harlem Orchestra.was equally as skilled on the piano. On the trips back to his home in Massachusetts he often found himselves shooting pictures of the road side seanery. In 1915 he got a jobas a dark room technician and within a few years had his oun studio on 135 th  street. From there he started to document all the faces and sides of the loving local community.

Aaron Douglas. Was the artist that best exemplified the concept of harlem being a thriving new black community. He painted murals on the sides of public buildings and produced cover designs for many black publications. Later in 1940 he moved to Tennessee and founded the Art Department at Fisk University and he taught for 29 years there. "...Our problem is to conceive, develop, establish an art era. Not white art painting black...let's bare our arms and plunge them deep through laughter, through pain, through sorrow, through hope, through disappointment, into the very depths of the souls of our people and drag forth material crude, rough, neglected. Then let's sing it, dance it, write it, paint it. Let's do the impossible. Let's create something transcendentally material, mystically objective. Earthy. Spiritually earthy. Dynamic." Aaron Douglas

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