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1911 Charlotte, North Carolina - 1988 New York City. Known for: Modernist African-American figure and landscape painting, collage.
Working in a modernist style, Romare Bearden, as a Black American, tried to express on canvas and collage the complexities and uniqueness of being a minority in American society. Many of his themes... Read full biography
Working in a modernist style, Romare Bearden, as a Black American, tried to express on canvas and collage the complexities and uniqueness of being a minority in American society. Many of his themes dealt with music. Another strong presence in many of Bearden's works is trains. Bearden felt that... Read full biography
Working in a modernist style, Romare Bearden, as a Black American, tried to express on canvas and collage the complexities and uniqueness of being a minority in American society. Many of his themes dealt with music. Another strong presence in many of Bearden's works is trains. Bearden felt that there was a commonality, or link between trains and their symbolic tie to life; he saw trains as communicating life's fluctuations and constant change. He also saw this in jazz, so in many of his works... Read full biography
Working in a modernist style, Romare Bearden, as a Black American, tried to express on canvas and collage the complexities and uniqueness of being a minority in American society. Many of his themes dealt with music. Another strong presence in many of Bearden's works is trains. Bearden felt that there was a commonality, or link between trains and their symbolic tie to life; he saw trains as communicating life's fluctuations and constant change. He also saw this in jazz, so in many of his works the viewer will see images of both trains and jazz. Bearden's use of color was also unique. He was strongly affected by a trip he made to the Caribbean. Because he lived in such urban, "dirty" cities as New York, Bearden was overwhelmed by the rich,... Read full biography
Working in a modernist style, Romare Bearden, as a Black American, tried to express on canvas and collage the complexities and uniqueness of being a minority in American society. Many of his themes dealt with music. Another strong presence in many of Bearden's works is trains. Bearden felt that there was a commonality, or link between trains and their symbolic tie to life; he saw trains as communicating life's fluctuations and constant change. He also saw this in jazz, so in many of his works the viewer will see images of both trains and jazz. Bearden's use of color was also unique. He was strongly affected by a trip he made to the Caribbean. Because he lived in such urban, "dirty" cities as New York, Bearden was overwhelmed by the rich, vivid, "clean" colors of the tropics. He soaked in these colors, and used them in his works to try and... Read full biography
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Keywords (60)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Magic Marker, Sharpie, Felt-Tip Pen
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstract Figurative, Human Figure
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Humor, Whimsy
- •Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •New York City
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Social Realism
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •Columbia University Art Department, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •National Medal of Arts
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Axelrod Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- •Evans-Tibbs Collections
- •First National Bank of Chicago Collection
- •Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Harlem Renaissance Artist
- •LIFE Magazine Featured Artist
- •Mural Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Art Movement
- •Spiral Group, African-American Collective
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Provincetown Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts