black art
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of black art
First recorded in 1580–90
Example Sentences
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Strictly speaking, these galleries—limited by gaps in the DIA’s holdings and by space—provide only an abbreviated history of black art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
"All dental students are trained to make dentures but the black art of making them is being lost as they are not getting the practice," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022
It is home to one of the city’s most enviable collections of 19th and 20th-century black art, at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2020
The second narrative, which elevates Homecoming above self-hagiography, is the pride and struggle of black women: lines from Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde and Nina Simone place the shows in the tradition of unapologetically black art.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2020
And you recall how you plunged with the Founder, the Leader, deep into the black art of escape, guided at first, indeed, initiated, by the seemingly demented one who had learned his craft in slavery.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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