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And Phillip Hampton, another significant painter, puts the majority view among Negro artists in a few sentences:
A work of art is a visual philosophy, a non-verbal communication; for art is a combining process of the biological environment and spiritual constituents in the totality of man. Therefore, if an artist is to produce a work of art, he must be acutely sensitive to the totality....
Implicit in sensitiveness to the totality is his conviction that ? It is only through recognition as a group that we will eventually become known as artists who are incidentally Negroes. ?
The same conviction, and the beliefs that stem from it, involved me, as a student of social problems rather than of art, in the production of American Negro Art. In it, for the first time, a minority presents itself visually.
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