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Romare Bearden
Image:Romare Romare with his cat.
This is the Romare Bearden page. (Artists)
Born:September 2, 1911
Died:March 12, 1988
Age:76
Occupation:Artist, Writer
Gender:Male
Parent(s):Howard and Bessye Bearden
Awards:National Medal Of Arts (1987)
Mayor's award for art and culture in New York city (1984)
Biography
Romare Howard Bearden was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. As he grew older, he developed an interest in; Music, Performing arts, and of course, Art. Romare went to college at Lincoln University, but transferred to Boston University and he finished his studies at New York University. Bearden published many journals and was the lead cartoonist for a magazine. He joined a group of artists called the Harlem Artists Guild, where he began his lifelong study of art. Romare had his first art exhibition in Harlem in 1940, and in Washington D.C. in 1944. In 1954, Romare married Nanette Rohan who he would remain with for the rest of his life. In 1970, Romare and his wife biult a second home on the island of St. Martin, some of his art reflects the island's natural beauty.
Bearden had many friends who were famous musicians and writers, like; James Baldwin, Stuart Davis, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Joan Miro, George Grosz, Alvin Alley and Jacob Lawrence.
His art
One of the art styles that Romare addapted was the Collage. A Collage is a picture created by pasting parts of different pictures together.
At five in the afternoon
Blue lady
The cotton pickers
Factory workers
Jazz group
Lion takes off
New Orleans marching band
Old Poem
The opening
Poor thirsty souls
Some drink! Some drink!
Two women
Untitled (Piano player)
The visitation
The vixen
A walk in paradise gardens
The walls of illium
Quotes
"I am afraid, despite my intentions, that in some instances commentators have tended to overemphasize what they believed to be the social elements in my work. But while my response to certain human elements is as obvious as it is inevitable, I am also pleased to note that upon reflection many persons have found that they were as much concerned with the aesthetic implications of my paintings as with, what may possibly be, my human compassion."
- Romare Bearden, 1969, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art
"You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from."
-Romare Bearden and Charlene Hunter Gault, "Rhythm on Canvas," discussion of Bearden's forty-year retrospective exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, WNET/PBS, "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report," June 26, 1987.
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Links
Romare Bearden Foundation: [1] National Gallery of Art: [2]
References
"Bearden, Romare" The World Book Encyclopedia P. 187-188
Danto, Arthur Coleman, and Romare Bearden. "An artist beyond category." The Nation 279.19 (Dec 6, 2004):29. General OneFile. Gale. San Francisco Public Library. 28 Feb. 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.sfpl.org/itx/start.do?prodld=ITOF>. Gale Document Number:A125911770
Biography. Romare Bearden Foundation.2008. <http://www.beardenfoundation.org/artlife/biography/biography.shtml#>
Romare Bearden. Artcyclopedia. 2008. <http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bearden_romare.html>
