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How did your artist contribute to African-American culture during the Harlem Renaissance?

A: The Harlem Renaissance was a time period when black culture began to flourish in the 1920's in New York City. This new flowering on culture included art, music, and literature.
My artist, Aaron Douglas, contributed to African-American culture during the Harlem Renaissance by developing a unique artistic style of painting, not only were his painting a new style but they also showed the African-American struggle. His style of painting included combining aesthetic with ancient African traditional art (Cubism). Most importantly, he pioneered the African-American modernist movement.

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1. American painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance- known as "father of African-American art"
2. Aaron Douglas was born into a relatively large, proud, politically active African American community in Topeka, Kansas. He later moved to New York to be part of Alaine Lockes' New Negro Movement
3. One of his most notable work was "Aspects of Negro Life"
4. Received a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska in 1922
5. Through techniques such as synthetic cubic forms, he depicted the realities of the black struggle for political and creative freedom( "synthesizing formal and symbolic elements of African art with a modern European aesthetic").

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aaron-Douglas

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Aaron Douglas | African-American, Harlem Renaissance, Painter

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Aaron Douglas was an American painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska in 1922, Douglas returned briefly to his native Kansas to teach art. By 1925 he had moved to New York City,