 Some of you jumped right into this, but what's going on in this picture right here? Segregation what do you see that makes you say that? Big wall in the middle of the room. What more can you find? Okay, not equal how? Okay, so the bartender is on the white side of the bar the fan is on that side of the bar What is the bar? Yeah, I was trying to figure it out. What about his face? No, this looks like a fake thing. I feel like it's one of those cartoon for like the nose. Yes, it almost looks like there's a profile in the possibly the newspaper he's holding the shadow creates the image of the face If that was intentional, what do you think the artist was trying to do there? What could it mean have the white man looking at himself and what he's that like we actually reflecting upon like what he's created Looking himself in the mirror looking himself in the mirror reflecting on what he's what he's created and what has he created? Okay, so divisiveness unhappiness inequality Are these kind of separate but equal? Okay, we talked with the fan and about the fact that he's sitting on the side of the bars or anything else You notice it's different about the two sides. There are physically more people on that side versus this side Okay, and then am I mistaken is this a woman on this side in red? I believe I would read that as So that means something I'm not sure what And I don't know whether the character is either I think he's dancing The man is this hand up this way. Okay, that's one way to sort of read that pose And right over his shoulder. There's another face. Mm-hmm. So there's maybe someone facing him and dancing with him What does that tell you about this letter there's a woman here and maybe a second woman dancing with the man do you get a sense of The mood or the personality of the side as opposed to the side this one looks much more happy this one like everyone looks angry or shady or Something's going down shady. What do you think that makes you say shady? I mean this guy's like looking over a shoulder like I had his hat pulled down and This side just as much as it's not equal and I'm a fan of things I feel like they're having a better time like it's almost like They have their own it's a different type of freedom So some of the expressions and poses on this side are very You know head pulled down or over the shoulder kind of angry looking or shady as you said Well, tell me about the lopsided idea well, it's not equal. It's not it's not straight I mean you can tell that he's He's over here So A lot of bars have mirrors in the back so you could actually 41 The doorways maybe it's just the angle but the doorways are shorter one's tall larger than the other appears But we notice there's a two doorways. It's two doors. Exactly. Okay. So what what else does that tell us? Okay, so separate engine always trying almost trying to create two entirely separate spaces So what's interesting about the date this work was created is that Lawrence as a northern artist He's born in New Jersey he moves to Harlem with most of his life in Harlem. This is the first trip to the south So it's his first experience of segregation And he chooses to paint this this is the year after His famous migration series and if you know that series, you know, he's painted the south a great deal It's kind of told those stories, but he's I've never actually been there himself So this is representing his first experience of being in a segregated place