American illustrator
Arturo Torres is a Dallas-based artist.He has notably collaborated with Shea Serrano on three New York Times best-selling books in which Torres illustrated Serrano's essays.The first was The Rap Year Book:
The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979
And Deconstructed in 2015
Then Basketball :A Collection of Questions Asked
A Collection of Questions Asked
American comic book by Marvel Comics
A Real American Hero is a comic book that was published by Marvel Comics from 1982 to 1994.Based on Hasbro's G.I.Joe:
A Real American Hero line of military-themed toys
The series has been credited for making G.I.Joe into a pop-culture phenomenon. G.I.Joe was also the first comic book to be advertised on television
In what has been called a historically crucial moment in media convergence.
2018 film by Peter Farrelly
Green Book is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly.Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali
The film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer and later actor Frank Tony Lip Vallelonga
Who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard.Written by Farrelly alongside Lip's son Nick Vallelonga and Brian Hayes Currie
The film is based on interviews with Lip and Shirley
As well as letters Lip wrote to his wife.It is named after The Negro Motorist Green Book
A guide book for African American travelers founded by Victor Hugo Green in 1936 and published until 1966.
American artist (1938–2014)
Robert James Reed Jr. born in Charlottesville
VirginiaWas an American artist and professor of painting and printmaking at Yale School of Art for 45 years.In 1987
Reed was appointed to Yale School of Art's tenured permanent faculty making him
At the time of his deathThe School's first and only African-American to be so appointed in the School's then 145 year history.In his artwork
Reed is known for his geometric abstraction and personalized symbols to create a language of abstraction.He employs abstract symbols
Color and deeply textured brushwork to create his iconic imagery.As Reed would explain
Cultural and universal signs and symbols
Remembered childhood images and places are organized into his imagery.His abstractions are referential and have their basis in real form that exists solidly in the real world in real space.His work includes
