フィラデルフィア美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (フィラデルフィア美術館Instagram)「Over the course of a career that spanned much of the twentieth century, the self-taught artist Elijah Pierce created a vast body of work that spoke to the cultural and religious beliefs of his immediate community. His path led him from humble beginnings in rural Baldwyn, Mississippi, to the midwestern city of Columbus, Ohio, where he worked as a barber and a Baptist preacher and, in his spare time, began to make art. Like many other visionary artists of his generation, Pierce focused on biblical imagery, creating scenes of Christ performing miracles and angels giving blessings. Starting in the 1930s Pierce developed a visual language of figures and forms in carved wooden reliefs that he then decorated with paint, glitter, and varnish. "Prayer," 1966, by Elijah Pierce」7月2日 0時45分