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(Max C)
A) Bill Traylor was born into slavery in the black belt of Dallas County, Alabama. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued when Bill was 10 years old, but he remained enslaved until he was about 12 due to Lincoln not having control of the confederate states.

B) After living as paid laborers for 55 years in rural Dallas and Lowndes, Traylor and his family moved to work in rural Montgomery. At the time, Dallas and Lowndes were 2 the top 5 most active lynching counties in Alabama.

C) By the late 1920s, Bills wife had died and his children had grown into adults. Homeless and alone, Traylor moved into more urban Montogmery and became dependent on systems of black owned business.

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(Max C)
a) Traylor's entire childhood was completely surrounded around laboring on a farm. Growing up a slave in the confederacy of the U.S. would form who Bill Traylor was and would go on to affect every bit of his existence, including his art. Nearly all of his works illustrate the life of a slave on a farm and of a homeless black man in Alabama.

b) Traylor would live his entire life around the most dangerous cities to live in as a black in america. This likely molded parts of Traylor's personality and would be reflected in his art.

c) Comparing this new life to his childhood to reveals how his life, almost ironically, changed dramatically in some ways but remained the same in others. As a child, Traylor was enslaved but he had a family to support him. As a freeman, he continued to suffer, now homeless on the city streets. Traylor would lose his family but he still had a support system. His life changed dramatically, but in a way it remained the same.

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B/ As a slave the meaning behind his drawings and paintings were powerful as he could no just say what he wanted but he could make it to the point where it was understandable he used size and color to demonstrate the power system faces to represent feelings and animals to represent deep meanings

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B/ When he was freed from his slave life he always came back to Montgomery as that was where his family moved at the end nearing the end of his life he painted but those arts did not stay present he traveled a lot nearing the end of his life seeing new things and painting the things he saw

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B/ Traylor grew up as a slave 55 years exactly he traveled from Dallas to Lowndes time nd time again the only way of life he knew was as a slave this impacted how he saw life that white people were superior they had more power and he couldn't freely express himself as he wanted he preferred painting on cardboard and started drawing later on adopted painting

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Traylor used guns to convey nighttime hunts for possums and other animals that were common on the plantations in the south. They also represented survival and power because during this time it was a source of food. Also during this time hunting was full of emotions and behaviours like laughter, drunkeness, agressiveness and through his paintings these gun shows these emotions and how long ago poeple very hard working and god fearing.

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Around the time World war ll Began Bill Traylor had started to draw and paint More regularly. He mostly worked with pencil and colored pencils and primarily used cardboard he found as a canvas. Bill Taylor's work was also displayed, the "new south" organizing Taylors' first exhibition in 1940; while Traylor was experiencing this one of the biggest aviation groups was making big news.The Tukgagee air men

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Lines: The span of distance between two points. Lines are not just for outlines, they can be implied or abstract. Lines drastically changes the psychology of an artwork, impacting the viewer greatly.

Color: Color had an huge impact in the way it portrays emotions and the authors mood. It has an emotional impact on the viewer. Especially if you have a deep background of the color theory, it helps deepen your understanding.

Shape: Shapes can be used to control how we perceive a composition. For instance, triangles can help draw the eye to a particular point, while circles represent continuity.

Form: Form is the way an artist presents his art piece through demensions. It can require the viewer to think around they different structures around the art piece. it it also very popular within architecture.

Value: Related to color, value is the lightness and darkness of a color. It helps the viewer see the contrast between two or more objects. This can affect the mood of the art piece.

Space: Space can be manipulated based on how an artist places lines, shapes, forms, and color. Dependent of these factors can determined how much space is within the piece.

Texture: Texture can be seen or felt within a piece. It adds elevation to the viewers thought of the painting and by seeing the difference shows difference between elements

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Different types of birds have different meanings and numerous types of symbolism. Birds like owls and crows are often seen as bad omens.

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Reconstruction was a era of introduce new amendments which in majority affected black americans the most. Thirteenth Amendment, formally abolishing slavery in all states and territories in the United States.the Fourteenth Amendment, guaranteeing citizenship to “all persons born in the U.S including those who had been enslaved. The Fifteenth Amendment, guaranteeing African American men the right to vote. These  amendments caused a major shift in the black communities and uprising with Whites vs Black rather whites having full control on blacks. Bill traylor art has a subliminal message about a black man's power and how it is faced with white oppression throughout a lot of his art with his sizing techniqie of figure and his contrast with the color blue, black and red.

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Many people believe that the color blue can be associated with protection, Traylor often used blue in order to illustrate how he’s being spiritually protected.

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Traylor reused cardboard for his paintings because he learned during the Great

Depression how to reuse things he already had.

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Traylor uses trees a lot to describe Traylor adheard overtly to a hunting narrative, but Billie Holiday's song “Strange fruit has a different take on the meaning of the trees.

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Traylor purposefully blurs the lines between the hunters and the hunted using chaotic methods. Enslaved black laborers were usually hunted by the hounds of their white masters.

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Traylor used hats to symbolize power, protection, and vulnerability as the hats were used for protection from the Alabama sun and those without the hats were left susceptible to the sun’s heat.

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Will Traylor is shot 1929- After an alleged home break in one of Traylor's sons is shot. this can influence his art by bringing in elements of grief.

The Scottsboro Boys 1931- 15 African American teenagers get falsely accused of 🤬. This event help to create the civil rights movement. This can influence his art by encouraging him to show the injustices and oppression African Americans faced. There can also be elements of hope included because of the civil rights movement.

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The dogs he drew show an extensive range of animals that Traylor had experience with. For example during Traylors time dogs were used a lot to hunt slaves and Traylor conveys the power the dogs had over people in is painting by painting the dogs to look overly aggressive.

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1. Traylor used allegories to protect himself by making his true meaning of his art covert
2. He also used allegories to record African American slave culture and religion
3. Traylor also layered his work to use simple drawing to represent his complex protest against racism and discrimination

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Van Gogh ́s painting Starry Night was created entirely from his memory and imagination.

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Traylor would rely on allegory for his safety. His drawing/painting would be on very heavy, serious subjects that would depict what he and other former slaves went through. To cover it, in order to not get "in trouble" with the public, he would rely on his symbols, colors, and characters to add layers behind the true meaning. To the eyes of the public, his art may seem simple and unmeaningful, but the meaning behind it refers to all his experiences when living as an African American during this era.

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This Supreme Court decision asserted that African Americans, free or slaves, were not considered citizens of the United States. This decision would outline future treatment of Bill Traylor because it aligned with and encouraged beliefs that would alienate, mistreat, and dehumanize African Americans.

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Important points:
-Jim Crow was a system of customs (racial order/culture)
-Fewer formal Jim Crow laws in Mississippi and Alabama (where Traylor lived)
-Lynching: extrajudicial killings for perceived infringements (Ex: African Americans speaking to white people)
-Competition for jobs/status/power lead white communities to violently enforce racial boundaries (caused portions of the black population to move away from the South)

Relation to Traylor’s analysis:
The way African Americans were continuously treated poorly even after being given more liberty influenced the meaningful elements of his pieces. The determination of the black population to grow and be heard through higher positions is illustrated in his work.

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Aesop's Fables are a famous example of an allegory

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An allegory is, very simply, a work that uses symbols/symbolism to disclose another meaning. Typically these meanings will convey a moral message. A very common form of allegory is a parable or fable, such as how the Chronicles of Narnia are considered an allegory of Christianity.

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O - there is a man walking a dog significantly larger than him with a leash.
P - It seems very important that the dog is much larger than the man. The small man is holding this huge dog with a leash. He has brows which suggest he is angrily walking him. There is something very human like about the dog's eyes as well.

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- the ratification of the 13th amendment (abolished slavery) he was 12 years old
- White southerners were angry that there former salves now have equal rights
- The white southerns took away there right to particitpe in local government
- they also created codes

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Nicole(changing laws pt2), Paddy(changing population centers), Cora(changing laws pt1), Reese(new identities)

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Nicole(changing laws pt2), Paddy(changing population centers), Cora(changing laws pt1), Reese(new identities)

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Read the article about the Symbolism Lens and gather important points from it. Make several additional posts to explain key points. Relate the Symbolism lens to Traylor analysis.

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Read the article about the Allegorical Lens and gather important points from it. Make several additional posts to explain key points. Relate the Allegorical lens to Traylor analysis.

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Read the article about the Transitional Lens and gather important points from it. Make several additional posts to explain key points. Relate the Transitional lens to Traylor analysis.

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Read the article about the Personal Lens and gather important points from it. Make several additional posts to explain key points. Relate the personal lens to Traylor analysis.

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Review the timeline and discuss how each historical event might influence the artwork of Traylor.

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Using the  7 visual elements, find a painting online and analyze for the class. During your analysis, be sure to teach the elements.

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Using what you know about OPTIC, pull a painting off the Internet and analyze for the class. During this lesson, be sure to define the parts of OPTIC for the class.

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Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night in 1889 during his stay at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.