Does High Art or Folk Art Best Express Racial Pride? How does Folk Art contrast with High Art when displaying racial pride and African-American culture? First, we need to understand what Folk Art and High Art actually are. Folk Art is, by definition, “art produced by an indigenous culture or by peasants.” Whereas High Art is art that is sophisticated and represents the wealthy urban-based societies. We now know what these mean, but which does a more successful job of accurately capturing the fundamentals of racial pride? We’re going to take a look at an argument on why Folk Art rules over High Art and we will throw down the gauntlet as to how High Art fails to capture the impact of racial pride. We will go in detail on how High Art utilizes intricate vocabulary and word choice, how it can be constrictive and unnatural, as well as how it might show the positive complexities of a culture and we’ll review a rebuttal for that claim. One obvious trait of specific …show more content…
These words are excellent for detailed descriptions, but the average reader, especially during 1927 would have had difficulty understanding what the words actually mean, or the sonnet could be misinterpreted entirely. In contrast to our High Art sonnet, let’s take a look at the Folk Art sermon, “The Creation” by James Johnson. There are sections like “And God said: That’s good!” and “With all its living things, God said: I’m lonely still.”. These sentences may seem a little rudimentary, but you could argue that they are easily readable, understandable and it goes to show that you can still display complex and deep meanings and themes whilst maintaining very human writing. With this evidence, you could concur that if you want to display deep meanings and soul to a majority audience, human, down-to-earth writing is a must for communicating as it is much more readable and understandable than the complex language of High