Black Belt

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"Black Belt" is a celebrated 1934 painting by African-American artist Archibald Motley that vividly portrays nightlife and social life in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood during the Harlem Renaissance era.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
work of art
artHistoricalSignificance important depiction of Chicago’s Black cultural life
key work in Archibald Motley’s oeuvre
colorUsage vivid colors
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Archibald Motley
creatorEthnicity African-American
creatorName Archibald Motley
surface form: Archibald John Motley Jr.
culturalContext African-American Great Migration communities
depicts African-American urban life
South Side, Chicago
surface form: Bronzeville neighborhood

commercial signage
crowd of people
music and entertainment venues
nightlife
social life
street scene
depictsPeriod 1930s
interwar period
genre genre painting
hasLanguage none (visual artwork)
hasTitle Black Belt
inception 1934
locationOfDepictedScene South Side, Chicago
surface form: Bronzeville, Chicago

Chicago
surface form: Chicago, Illinois
mainSubject Black Americans
surface form: African Americans

urban entertainment district
materialUsed oil paint
movement Harlem Renaissance
partOf African-American art history
Chicago Black Renaissance
surface canvas
titleLanguage English

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Archibald Motley notableWork Black Belt