Mr. Dial Has Something to Say

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Thornton Dial is a self-taught artist who only began making art after his retirement. With time to make things simply for his own pleasure, Dial started constructing figurative sculptures, paintings and mixed-media assemblages. It wasn't long before he was discovered by the outside art world and his work is now exhibited in galleries and museums, including The New Museum in New York and the Whitney Biennial. His art functions like folk tales, combining African and American traditions to tell stories that are at once personal, political, and spiritual. This documentary explores the visual arts sibling of jazz, the blues and gospel. As the visual interpretation of life from America's former slave culture, this improvisational style is a unique artistic view in American history, and one of America's few very home-grown artistic styles. This film seeks to address the meaning and history of this movement and if the Afro-American improvisational visual art has been perceived by the mainstream art world as less important.

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