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Game Of Checkers
Checkers Artist Shirley Hunter
Shirley Hunter, from 1945 to present day, African American.
Checkers Game, by Shirley
Hunter.
- Checkers artist Shirley Hunter's art
depicts motifs of African American daily
activities in genre oil paintings.
- The style is a very simplistic and free
form of representational Realism, though
the shapes within the composition are not
defined in concrete detailing but more
by the use of various brushstrokes and
tones of color.
- In ‘Checkers’,
artist Shirley Hunter represents domestic
scene between a man and a woman playing
a game of checkers on a picnic as denoted
by the basket next to the female figure
or possibly in the backyard.
- The figures at the checkerboard appear
to be relaxed and simply enjoying the game
of checkers on a lazy afternoon outdoors,
and this motif is depicted in a naive,
almost child like manner and bright colors.
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