Where Fort Worth artist Sedrick Huckaby is an heir to painter Romare Bearden, Bearden owes his work to jazz. Huckaby joins Think host Krys Boyd at 1 p.m. to talk about this chain and . The exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth marks the first time these works have been viewed outside New York City.
四虎影院's Jerome Weeks explored Bearden's translation of Homer's The Odyssey, which features all-black characters and a tie to the artist's fondness for the canvas as map to music:
In the opening of The Odyssey, Homer, the poet, prays to his muse to help him sing the song of Odysseus, the story of the wily Greek warrior鈥檚 struggles to return home after the Trojan War. Thinking of The Odyssey as a blues song or a jazz standard, therefore, is not such a radical move. Bearden is simply improvising on a classic tune.
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Huckaby鈥檚 oil painting Hidden in Plain Site is also on view in the Amon Carter's atrium.
