Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Art Two - Romare Bearden and collage

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer. He worked in several media including cartoons, oils and collage. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden moved to New York City at a very young age and went on to graduate from NYU in 1935. He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South. Later, he endeavored to express the humanity he felt was lacking in the world after his experience in the US Army during World War II on the European front. He later returned to Paris in 1950 and studied Art History and Philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1950.

Bearden's early work focused on unity and cooperation within the African-American community. After a period during the 1950s when he painted more abstractly, this theme reemerged in his collage works of the 1960s, when Bearden became a founding member of the Harlem-based art group known as The Spiral, formed to discuss the responsibility of the African-American artist in the struggle for civil rights.
 


8 comments:

  1. I love how he used his collages to get a message across, like unity. Collages aren't typically what people think of when they think about meaningful artwork, but he was able to use them to mean something.

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  2. I really like how his collages meant something and were also just really good artwork
    - ashton

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  3. I like how he put his emotions into these pieces, took a lot of time though
    - wesley

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  4. i really love how he was able to just take different pieces of paper and make it into something so great. it was really cool that he made it so meaningful

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  5. I like how all his artwork meant something to him and he was very creative.
    Emily Edwards

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  6. I love how abstract and fun these paintings are and the fact that they have meaning makes them even better.

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  7. I like the details he used in these paintings.

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  8. this is cool Emily Sandoval

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