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Birth
1914 (Charlotte, North Carolina)
Death
1988 (New York City)
Lived/Active
New York
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mod African-American figure and landscape painting, collage
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Black American Artists
Modernism
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| 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 (showing 500 of 19329 characters). |
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