Souvenir I

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"Souvenir I" is a large-scale, mixed-media painting by Kerry James Marshall that commemorates Black civil rights leaders and martyrs through a domestic interior scene infused with glittering, memorial-like symbolism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
artForm large-scale painting
artHistoricalContext late 20th-century American art
artist Kerry James Marshall NERFINISHED
colorPalette predominantly dark tones with metallic and glitter highlights
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Kerry James Marshall NERFINISHED
culturalContext African-American civil rights history
depicts Black civil rights leaders
Black civil rights martyrs
domestic interior
living room scene
genre contemporary art
history painting
political art
hasSetting middle-class Black home interior
hasTheme African-American history
civil rights movement
collective memory
commemoration
domestic life
martyrdom
memory
mourning
hasVisualFeature angelic or wing-like imagery
central Black female figure
glittering memorial-like symbolism
names of civil rights leaders written in the composition
textual commemoration of civil rights figures
languageOfText English
movement African-American art
contemporary art
notableFor commemoration of Black civil rights leaders in a domestic setting
focus on Black interior domestic space
integration of text and image
use of glitter as memorial device
partOfSeries Souvenir series NERFINISHED
portrays Black woman as guardian of memory
subjectMatter Black American experience
civil rights struggle
remembrance of the dead
symbolizes honor for civil rights martyrs
sacralization of everyday Black domestic space
usesMaterial glitter
mixed media
paint

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Kerry James Marshall notableWork Souvenir I