Word: chandlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work of members of the four-year-old Boston Negro Artists' Association has lately been exhibited in Roxbury, the Old South Church, and elsewhere. Currently on view is a large one-man show entitled "Black Power Revolution in Art," which consists of nearly a hundred works by Dana C. Chandler, Jr., one of our area's most forceful artistic spirits--and, at twenty-six, one of its youngest...
...Chandler, an ardent Black Power advocate, is a man with fire in his belly; but he chooses to channel it into art rather than arson. He says art can be as effective as destruction in bringing about social change, thereby allying himself with such potent practitioners as Orozco, Kollwitz, Grosz, and Shahn...
...Chandler is aware of history too. A Crucifixion scene is titled "For What!?" "Forced Integration," showing a white man raping a Negro woman, is meant to recall the origin of our lighter skinned colored Americans, and an eerie picture of a spiky branch-qua-hand is called "Hanging Tree." An eight-foot-high painting of a bearded Negro holding up a Black Power sign bears the title "Moses Brings the Word to His People...
...painter looks to the future, also. The most striking thing about "Black Prediction" is the burning fury emanating from the eyes of its subjects. Says Chandler, "The Black Revolution is going to get worse before it gets better. Many blacks will die--perhaps myself among them." He believes blacks must be left to settle most of their own problems and that it's the whites who need help. Painting is his way of helping, for his art is "based on facts, on truth...
...Harvard freshman has been named Chairman of the Suffolk County Drive for a Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. The drive is part of a statewide effort called Citizens for Massachusetts which was organized by Rep. Chandler H. Stevens Jr. (I-Bedford...