TMC
10-14-2020, 03:49 AM
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-10-13/blackish-abc-season-7-cast-key-art-kadir-nelson
Acclaimed artist Kadir Nelson, known for his portraits of cultural heroes, was enlisted to design the billboard for Season 7. The “Black-ish Tea" portrait (https://twitter.com/APEntertainment/status/1316109262494588932) "depicts the stylishly dressed Johnson family on the street sipping tea out of china cups and eating macarons against a bright blue sky," according to Los Angeles Times' Robert Rorke. "Their bemused expressions invite you to wonder what they’re all thinking and talking about. For Nelson, a graduate of New York’s Pratt Institute, they’re having the national conversation — as in, 'What is happening to the world?'" “I looked at … what people were doing during COVID and I found a list that had the theme of a tea party," says Nelson. "And I thought that’s pretty much what the Johnson family would be doing. They would have something to say about this crazy, roller-coaster year we’ve been experiencing and pretty much have this knowing look. Like, ‘We know better about what’s going on, but we’re just going to sip our tea.’”
Acclaimed artist Kadir Nelson, known for his portraits of cultural heroes, was enlisted to design the billboard for Season 7. The “Black-ish Tea" portrait (https://twitter.com/APEntertainment/status/1316109262494588932) "depicts the stylishly dressed Johnson family on the street sipping tea out of china cups and eating macarons against a bright blue sky," according to Los Angeles Times' Robert Rorke. "Their bemused expressions invite you to wonder what they’re all thinking and talking about. For Nelson, a graduate of New York’s Pratt Institute, they’re having the national conversation — as in, 'What is happening to the world?'" “I looked at … what people were doing during COVID and I found a list that had the theme of a tea party," says Nelson. "And I thought that’s pretty much what the Johnson family would be doing. They would have something to say about this crazy, roller-coaster year we’ve been experiencing and pretty much have this knowing look. Like, ‘We know better about what’s going on, but we’re just going to sip our tea.’”