Horace pippin biography african-american inventors

Horace Pippin

Horace Pippin was an African American folk painter known for his depictions of African American life and of the horrors of war. Horace Pippin was called a folk artist because he had no formal art training.

He used bright colors, flat shapes, and straight lines. He did not use shading or complicated perspective.

Horace pippin biography african-american inventors

His art is also called primitive, naive, or innocent. The injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently in many of his works.

Horace Pippin was born February 22, 1888, just twenty-three years after the Civil War and the end of slavery.

His grandparents were slaves, and his parents were domestic workers. Pippin's childhood was spent in Goshen, New York, a town that sometimes appears in his paintings. Pippin liked to draw and would illustrate his spelling words in school.

Jacob lawrence biography

But his family could not afford art materials. At age ten, he won a box of crayons in a magazine drawing contest and started coloring. He left school at age fou