Right - detail from "New Generation at the Scene of the Crime"...
...this detail shows 0ne of my Fabric Painting Styles "(C) Afroneo / NeoAfro" on Paper. I chose Neo Expressionism as my Studo Genre in College where I started this piece. It is 6 x 5 feet and features the combination of African Textile Design, Expressive Painting and Pointillism. In my early days at the High School of Art and Design, NYC when I worked exclusively in Pen and Ink. I employed Cross Hatching and Dot Matrix ( Pointillism ) A drawing would take 3 months of time but the effect was well worth it. Pointillism is a Super Technique that takes a lot of skill and knowledge of color, form and media. ...I attribute the French Artist Seurat with that influence.
...I have studied and seen his actual works at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in NYC when the Guggenheim hosted the first and only showing of most of the Great Modern Masters. Pointillism as I use it is an accent to my expressive forms and color field as depth and dimension.
... I am not an Impressionist like Seurat. I use hard lines and the color Black which the Impressionists don't do. My Forms and content are African and therefore on the edge of Traditional Modernism. I identify with the Modernist Movement through street Arts, Canvas Panting, and drawing technique. I wasn't a Street Artist when Graffiti Rose as a Genre from the streets to the Galleries. I came in on the tail end around the end of the Basquiat Era and my Street Art sensibility extended to my mural Painting in Upstate NY.
...As an African American Artist of the 60's, Content is always an up front aesthetic...which is what makes the idea of BLACK ART so distinctive. The Black Image, Cultural Experience and Protest Art / Social /commentary is the core. But BLACK ART IS NOT A GENRE...IT'S A CREATIVE MINDSET AND SOCIAL EXPRESSION, TAILORED AND HIGHLY PERSONALIZED TO THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA..