Betye Saar (1926)

Betye Saar

Betye Irene Saar is an American artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She is known for her participation in the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s and for her works critical of American racism toward black people.

Betye Saar is considered a classicist of assemblage, a decorative-applied art in which the artist creates a relief image by gluing three-dimensional parts or objects on a flat surface. The artist has been engaged in this art since the 1960s.