Barkley L. Hendricks Analysis

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A Personal Reflection on The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience - As I See It Thomas, Floyd R. “A Personal Reflection on The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience - As I See It.” Lyman Allyn Art Museum (2001): 1. Resource Library Magazine. Web . Barkley Hendricks art contains elements of realism and postmodernism which represents life in his era. Hendrick’s simplicitistic style invigorates viewers and helps them be engaged into his artwork. Floyd R. Thomas, Jr., accounts the feelings he got when viewing Hendrick’s work, naming it the “Barkley L. Hendricks Experience”. Thomas said that Hendricks’s art gives a “feeling of intimacy, [due] in part, through [his] portraiture in life-size proportions. His subjects are neither diminutive nor larger-than life. This scale has a profound effect that cannot be replicated on the printed page, for it establishes a spatial relationship of parity with no physical …show more content…

Hendricks: Birth of the Cool Schoonmaker, Trevor, Thelma Golden, and Barkley L Hendricks. “Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool.” Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (2001): 140. Web. 11 Nov. 2015. . Barkley Hendricks life give insight into what he reflected in his artwork. Barkley Hendricks was born in 1945 in Philadelphia. Hendricks’s work mainly contains glimpses of inner-city life and people of color in the northeast region of the United States. His bold portrayal of his subject’s attitude and style elevates the common person to celebrity status. Hendricks’ unique artistic style and his symbolism of the culturally complex black body has paved the way for today’s younger generation of artists. This is why some name him the of the “Birth of the Cool” a name which was given to Miles Davis, as a breakthrough artist who was instrumental in bringing forth a new type of music called jazz. This book offers a comprehensive look at 100 color images of paintings created from 1964 to the present from Hendricks and includes a biography of Hendrick’s