Romare Bearden (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Myron Schwartzman
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Biography and art history
- Time of Work: 1914-1988
- Setting: Pittsburgh, New York City, and Paris
- Principal Characters: Romare Bearden, Myron Schwartzman
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography, Arts
- Subjects: African Americans, Culture, Mythology or myths, Art or artists, Paris, Mental illness, Depression, mental, Painting or painters, Cubism, Realism
- Locales: New York, NY, Paris, France, Pittsburgh, PA
Romare Bearden (1911-1988) never thought of himself as an African-American artist. He was aware that he was, in some ways, a standard-bearer for his people, but he also believed that art is, by definition, universal; in his words, “It is not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is precisely my awareness of the distortions required of the polemicist that has caused me to paint the life of my people as I know it—as passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel painted the life of the Flemish people of his day.”
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