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Nyals O Montgomery February 5, 2009 Contemporary Art Prof Beasley

In 1940's America Artist starts to constructed their own style of creating art. The artist became know as the America Avanti or Vanguard. The only issue was that when they add America to the title black artist wasn't included to the movement. Killik Artist could possibly be the first black abstract expression artist. Killik Artist was born on February 15, 1912 in New York City. He studies art at The Extra-Curricular Activities Of Black College Student (ECABC). Killik finished studying at ECABC in 1933. He moved back to New York to tend to his dying mother. His mother died in 1935: overwhelm by the death of his mother, he cling to his paints and paint bushes for peace of mind. Doing 1935-1938 Killik would only paint portrait of his mother and landscape of his neighborhood. By 1939 killik became bored with his paintings. He felt as though the paintings he painted only expressed what he saw and not what feels: so he then decided that he would search for a new way to paint. January 7, 1939 killik painted his first Abstract expression painting; he called it "building hidden in color". The painting "building hidden in color" was his most colorful piece. The painting was extremely busy and it was easy to lose in the painting. It was well balanced. He used pink and white to force the viewer eye to move around the painting. It is oil on canvas, 16"x21". Right after that paint Killik move on to his next painting: short on marital; killik careful plan out his next painting. He took the canvas and nailed it to the wall. He didn't have enough primer to prime the whole canvas: so, he decided that he was only going to prime the areas where he wanted to be white. He tore a piece of cardboard box and uses it to spread the primer. Next he took tubes of paints and uses them as if they were pencils. Then he used a knife and moved the colored paint around the canvas. Finally he took chalk coal and starts to draw human figure into the wet paint and primer. When he finished his painting he titled it "Mixmaster" it was 20"x30".