The Crisis Magazine Cover

The Crisis Magazine Cover

This is a cover of the Crisis magazine designed by Aaron Douglas, a famous artist during the Harlem Renaissance. The cover is very similar to his other work that is featured in Fire!!. Many geometric shapes are used to vaguely represent human arms. He also uses a minimal palette, just three shades of blue. What this magazine cover represents is the modernist approach that many artist took during the Harlem Renaissance and the 1920s. Like the rest of the artist in the modernist movement, African Americans strived to remove themselves from the traditional frame of thought of what it meant to be African American and create a new identity.

Aaron Douglas

Douglas, Aaron. The Crisis Magazine Cover. 1927. The Professional Association of Design. Web. 14
Dec. 2015. <http://www.aiga.org/design-journeys-aaron-douglas/>.

http://www.aiga.org/design-journeys-aaron-douglas/

1927

Gabriella Green