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Collage
Gospel Song
Romare Bearden, (Charlotte, NC, 1911 - 1988, New York, NY)
Bearden, Romare
United States
1911 - 1988
Male
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
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Mixed media
Mixed media
1969
1969
1969
1900-2000, 20th century, American art, collage, Images of Black People, musicians, Social Realism
Collage
Gallery labet text 2013
Influenced by the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Bearden was friendly with the writer Langston Hughes and jazz musicians Duke Ellington and Fats Waller. He was fascinated by jazz, trying his hand at songwriting for a short time. Bearden’s work bears parallels to the rhythms, intervals, variations, and improvisational devices of music. He stated, “I paint out of the tradition of the blues.”
Bearden was a pioneer of the collage style, explaining “The medium I used was chosen intentionally because assemblage forges a variety of contrary images into one unified expression.”
Bearden was a founding member of the 1960s Harlem art group, Spiral, formed “for the purpose of discussing the commitment of the Negro artist in the present struggle for civil liberties.”
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1970.18
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