Romare bearden biography video

Summary of Romare Bearden

A prominent American artist, Romare Bearden created dazzling work celebrating the black American experience, which he integrated into greater (predominantly white) American modernism.

Romare bearden biography video

After working several decades as a painter, during the politically tumultuous s Bearden found his own voice by creating collages made of cut and torn photographs found in popular magazines that he then reassembled into visually powerful statements on African-American life.

The artist's subject matter encompassed the urban milieu of Harlem, traveling trains, migrants, spiritual "conjure" women, the rural South, jazz, and blues musicians, and African-American religion and spirituality. Late in his life, the artist established The Romare Bearden Foundation to aid in the education and training of talented art students.

Bearden remains revered as a highly esteemed artist of the 20^th century.

Accomplishments

• Although influenced by high modernists such as Henri Matisse, Beard