The first picture I want to introduce is the Freeing of the Slaves by John Steuart Curry. Curry completed Freeing of the Slaves in 1942 during his ten-year residency (1936-1946) at the UW-Madison. Freeing of the Slaves by John Steuart Curry is dramatically triumphant. Similar to other artworks by Curry, the composition is thick with figures. In this picture, Beginning at the left a group of slaves to leave their quarters to walk behind Union soldier troops underneath the shadows of a storm. As the painting continues right, a new day breaks, symbolizing the end of the war and the emancipation of all slaves. The main central figure ecstatically outstretches his arms and looks to the heavens as the Union flag proudly waves in the background. At his feet lay two dead soldiers, one Union and one Confederate, and at his right the victorious Union army marches on. Look at the background, I can see that, these people had just walked out of the stormy billowing, dark, symbolizing the dark slavery. And left behind the storm, they are driven to a region of the sky brilliant with sunlight irradiation are where. This image as their life to a new horizon, a land, a prosperous life, happier. With the engraved illustrations of the faces of the people in this picture is associated with joy, glee, happy to show up on the face of the black man. As a result, with the use of "a usable past" in his writings, Curry has showed us what this people have the desire of this liberation.
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