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.
It looks like a magazine clip collage. And reminds me of Katherine Bolles queen project from last year.
ReplyDeleteThese are really cool. I'd like to do something like this sometime.
ReplyDeleteThis looks cool but I bet it would be really hard to do. I like the one with the black jazz band.
ReplyDelete-Landon Newberry
I really like these. I think it's neat how scattered the collages are, yet they all seem to come together and make a picture.
ReplyDeletethese look like there is a lot more meaning behind the abstract painting than the average person may be because it does seem like they are made out of magazine clippings
ReplyDelete- Nathan Daniell
these are kinda weird but there cool and look like they are fun to make
ReplyDeletei really like how abstract the paintings are and how they have a deeper meaning than what we can see
ReplyDelete-justin hobbs