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Relations to the Harlem Renaissance There are numerous amounts of themes and issues alluding to the Harlem Renaissance in Aaron Douglas’s paintings. The Harlem Renaissance is era in which the society perceived black people as having finally liberated themselves from a past fraught with self-doubt and surrendered instead to an unprecedented optimism (CITE_). Growing up during this time, Aaron Douglas reflects how he feels about this era in two main paintings; “Into Bondage” and “The Crucifixion”. Douglas uses color scheme, formal properties such as repetition and contrast, and the mood of the painting as a way to allude towards Harlem Renaissance, in his painting.

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