The Market Woman And Sonny's Blue

Artists and writers, with their brushes and pens, use their creativity to take an abstract topic and represent it in a tangible product. The details in an art piece can express comparable notions to the articulation of a written piece. Both African American painters and writers share common themes about their people, for example wisdom we can take from African American women. Claude Clarke’s artwork, “The Market Woman” is a all-embracing piece that emulates the knowledge and wisdom that African American women hold. Claude Clarke dedicated himself to present the world “the dignity of Black Americans instead of attempting to solve the concerns of all humanity”(Clarke). The style of painting is using the European methods. The lines are simple

She exemplifies motherly wisdom when she finally confesses the pain and suffering she witnessed in her husband. She understand the strong gravitation of the life of darkness and sadness because she knows that “ain’t only the bad ones, nor yet the dumb ones that gets sucked under” (421). She has enough experience to know that anyone can be drawn to the life of addiction. More so, with her age and time being there for her husband she knows that the narrator must take care of his brother, Sonny. She knows, however, that he “may not be able to stop nothing from happening“ (422). This is an example of wisdom because she is not foolishly advising the narrator that he needs to save his brother from all evils of the world; he needs to make sure that he is there for him regardless of what the evil is that Sonny has fallen prey to. While this mother might have been close to the age of the woman in the painting, her darker experiences contorted her wisdom about the world to be more of a defensive and solemn. While she might have been happy sometimes during the end of her life, it was not the same as the the market woman’s bright