Romare Bearden Art

Reboot Charlotte: Discovering the Arts

From Ballantyne to light-rail stations, on university campuses and at the corner of Trade and Tryon, take your pick of styles. And now, there’s an uptown addition. From the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture to the Mint Museum, from the Knight Theater to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Levine Center for the Arts has reinvigorated South Tryon Street. The families gathered just steps away on The Green agree. ”I didn’t even know it was down here,” says Roderick Gee. “And you can see Miles Davis blowing the horn there,” he adds, referring to a brightly colored piece by artist Niki de Saint Phalle. He was happy the experience gave his children Trevor, Kyle and Sydney their own ideas. “You could sculpt things, because you were inspired from these things. You could paint things,” says Trevor. Describing family activities at the Mint, president and CEO Kathleen Jameson says: “You can literally come straight in … park the strollers, go in and allow the children to just be loud, run free … and then come up and see the rest of the museum.” Jameson says, “We have from paintings to pottery, from North Carolina crafts to African art, and we can tell the story of human creativity from across the world and across time.” Many pages in this WCCB-TV, Inc. Website feature links to other sites, some of which are operated by companies unrelated to WCCB-TV, Inc. WCCB-TV, Inc. has no control over the content or availability of any linked site. TM and (c) 2011 WCCB-TV, Inc., and its related entities. All rights reserved. Any reproduction, duplication, or distribution in any form is expressly prohibited.

Colin Blogs: Art I'm Looking At: Romare Bearden at The Museum of ...

Romare Bearden is an artist I've been aware of and liked since the 1970s. I don't remember where I first saw his work, but I was immediately drawn to it, particularly the collages, for which he remains best known. I suspect it was not seeing an original in a museum or gallery that first made we aware of Bearden (although it may have been) but rather seeing a reproduction--possibly an illustration in an article, and likely not one about Bearden himself. Bearden's pictures tell stories; and because of that, they are particularly good as illustrations.We have many opportunities to see them reproduced as plated embellishments on other stories, I think, and too little to see the originals stand on their own. This show is notable for many original gather in one place and also to show the work less well known. The show Romare Bearden "printing process: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden," which runs through July 3 at the Museum of the African Diaspora (685 Mission St. San Francisco, at the corner of SF MOMA (415) 358-7200) focuses on burning Bearden. As a printmaker myself, I enjoyed seeing the wide range of techniques on view and the emphasis on how Bearden used the printmaking process to explore. There are monotypes, etchings, drypoints, etchings with aquatint, lithographs, silkscreen prints, and collagraphs here, along with some of the plates from which the prints were made. Having used many of these techniques myself (all except lithography), I had no trouble understanding the explanatory panels, but they were in places a bit unclear, and in one instance mistaken (with "intaglio" used where "relief print" would have been correct). The images, however, speak for themselves. They range from work of the early 1960s to work made nearer the artist's death, in 1988. In a few instances, Bearden has exploited the inherent qualities of the technique--for example, in etchings using only the fine lines that etching excels at capturing. Ultimately, however, Bearden appears to have been most comfortable with the synthetic approach of collage. Many of the prints are, in fact, experiments with methods for translating collage into a printed form, and many have had collage elements added after the fact. It's not surprising either that collography appealed to Bearden. A collagraph is essentially a print made from a plate that is itself a collage.

Art of Romare Bearden [DVD] [Import]:

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Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden 1940-1987:

The art of Romare Bearden

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