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The Art and Life of Romare Bearden. Social Activism through Art. Who was Romare Bearden?. African-American artist born in 1911 and died in 1988 Grew up in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance Painter, musician, performer, activist, scholar, and humanist
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The Art and Life of Romare Bearden Social Activism through Art
Who was Romare Bearden? • African-American artist born in 1911 and died in 1988 • Grew up in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance • Painter, musician, performer, activist, scholar, and humanist • Some of his artists influences include • Paul Cezanne • Pablo Picasso • Henri Matisse
Who is Romare Bearden? • Degree in Education from NYU • Art Students League of New York and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. • Lifelong love of learning • Surrounded by intellects: • Duke Ellington & Fats Waller (musicians) • Langston Hughes (poet) • W.E.B. Du Bois (writer) • Aaron Douglas (artist)
Who is Romare Bearden? • First Art Director of the Harlem Cultural Council • Founded The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Cinque Gallery • Founding member of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Prolific CareerWell Known for Collage Out Chorus
Published by Bearden • A History of African American Artists: From 1792 to the Present • The Caribbean Poetry of Derek Walcott and the Art of Romare Bearden (1983) • Six Black Masters of American Art, coauthored with Harry Henderson (1972) • The Painter's Mind: A Study of the Relations of Structure and Space in Painting, coauthored with Carl Holty (1969) • Li'lDan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story, a children's book published posthumously in September 2003
A Timeline of Bearden’s Life • http://www.beardenfoundation.org/artlife/timeline/timeline.shtml
Extremely Prolific Artist • Over 2000 works over his lifetime • Collages • Paintings • Drawings • Monotypes • edition prints • murals for public spaces • record album jackets • magazine and book illustrations • costume and set designs for theater and ballet
Words to know • Collage • From the French word “coller” meaning to paste items together • Social Activism • The doctrine that action rather than theory is needed at some political juncture; an activist is therefore one who works to make change happen.
Words to know • Juxtaposition • To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. • Distorted • Misrepresented or garbled • Photomontage • The technique of making a picture by assembling pieces of photographs, often in combination with other types of graphic material.
Words to know • Mood • A pervading impression of an observer: the somber mood of the painting. • Stylized • To restrict or make conform to a particular style. Break a shape down to the basics… • Political • Of, relating to, or dealing with the structure or affairs of government, politics, or the state.
Part 2 What’s your stance?
Today’s Political Turmoil Today’s Political Turmoil
Where do you stand? • What bothers you? • What affects you? • What issues do you feel strongly about? • Who would you vote for? • This is YOUR country. • What is important to YOU?