Art historian and “American Sublime” curator describes the “majesty” of Sherald’s paintings #shorts

Cheryl's style of painting is called American realism. >> It's a way of depicting the ordinary and American life. It has meant slightly different things to the different painters it's been applied to.And she is creating images that say something about America right now. Ideas of freedom, ideas of individualism, freedom of expression, and a lot of kind of Americana ideas. You know, there's the cowboy and the beauty queen and the white picket fence.She's reimagining them and redeploying them to make sure that ...