Evening star., 1933-10-27

At that time an exhibit OF paintings
by Negro artists, which mas aIouseu
great interest in connection with tne
convention, will be placed on display
Starting Point in Africa.
The starting point in the exhibit is
in Africa. Certain works OF African
sculpture and engravings Will serve aS
the starting point to trace the oeVeiop-
IAent OF the modernlzed Negro IN tile
fine arts. There will be displayed WORKS
OF Aaron Douglass, Laura Wheeler war
.Jones, Archibald ]. Motley, James Allen,
Hale woodruff, E. A. Harleston, William
Scott. Palmer c. Hayden and Albert
A. Smith. AS far as available, there
will be illustrations of African art 10
show its influences on these artists IN
America and on others abroad, such as
Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Mpscnlt2
and Soutine.
While only a few pieces Of African
sculpture will be displayed, that avail
able, together with engravings, Will pre-
sent an idea of the culture reacned py
the African in this field.
Findings by European explorers OF
Africa have been photographed and re-
productions of number OF these pic
lures will be on hand. While some OF
Africa, two groups deal specifically with
the antique works of the art Of Benin,
discovered more than a generation ago
at the mouth of the Niger River. The
Bakuba art Of an advanced tribe In the
Belgian Congo attracts equally as much
attention.
Song Festival Monday.
A song festival will be held at the
Garnet Patterson Junior High School
Auditorium Monday evening, portraying
the Negro at his musical best Along
with the art exhibit in the National
Museum, there will be display of Negro
and African music. The African music,
like its art, will be used as a basis for
the study of compositions by Negroes
in America.
Looking to Africa" DR.. Woodson de-
clared, I'VE can find an explanation OF
the musical bent of the American Negro.
We can understand why one Negro COM
York City, will have IT pieces of music
1t will be shown that the Nergo spirit
appears also in the music of Satie, Au-
ric. Honneger, Milhand, Poulenc. Talia-
ferro, Strawinsky and Daighlieff."
The chief purpose Of these exhibits,
IL WoOOoOl odlu, Will Ue W ulTeCG du-
tention to the undeveloped capacities of
the Negro.
Continuing he said:
We have too long tried to force him
Into a traditional groove rather than
direct him toward the great achieve
ments of which he is capable The
Negro is singer to the manner
born. BY nature he is a most interest
ing actor. Every race should be
trained to function along the lines
which others have developed. but his
tory shows each can do some particu-
race justif1es it's existence. Speak
erS at this conference will emphasize,
therefore, that Africa has made her
contrlnution to culture, and if given
the opportunity will do even more than
she accomplished in the past.
Introduced Trial by Jury.
1.-THE public might be interested In
some conclusions recently reached by
eminent scientific investigators of At
some of the first stable governments
in the ancient times They first had
trial by Jury, stringed instruments, do
mesticated the sheep, goat and cow
and discovered iron. the most useful
thing in the world. Yet above all,
Africa reached its high level in the
fine arts. This is evidenced by the
figures of Sherbro, the megaliths Of
Gambia, the artistic masks, terra-cotta
productions and works of art like those
discovered at Benin You can find
even today in the heart OF that conti-
nent rock paintings that would do
credit to any art gallery.
Thus connecting the art of the
Negro of today with that of the race
in Africa, this annual meeting could
not close more appropriately on We'd
nesday evening than with DR.. Emory
Ross address on THE Social and Eco
nomic Aspects of the Revolution That
Is Now Upon Africa" What he will
discuss Is not an actual resort to arms,
but a revolution in the thought of
tho natives and in the attitude of the
Europeans toward the African, in the
natives increasing appreciation OF
their background, in their belief ir
their own possibilities as shown by
the demand for more of that consid-
Grafton usually accorded human be-
ings DR.. Ross, who has spent num-
ber of years In the Belgian Kongo. is
in a position to give this panorama Of
change of the European from the pol
icv of exploitation to that of cO-Opera-