The Art of Romare Bearden
by Carroll Moore
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Actor: Danny Glover, Emma Amos, Morgan Freeman, Wynton MarsalisDirector: Carroll Moore
Brand: National Gallery of Art
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Homevision
DVD Reviews of The Art of Romare Bearden
DVD Review: collage painter
Summary: 3 Stars
This documentary would be great for classes in elementary, secondary, or tertiary schools.
Bearden really practiced DuBois' views on double consciousness. He blended African sculpture with cubism. He used pointilism and applied it to black American subjects. He portrayed the urban and rural landscapes.
Still, I have some questions. Danny Glover reads quotes from the artist. Bearden was not a Harlem Renaissance painter. He died in the 1980s. He was around after talkies. They show films of him in color. It's not like he was Shakespeare. Surely they could have shown clips of him speaking for himself. They never say he was mute or had problems in front of the media.
Mr. Bearden was so light-skinned that I didn't know that he was African American until well into the documentary. Eventually they show his parents and his mother looked white. One interviewee described him as "light-skinned" but then the subject is never brought up again. Why not? Malcolm X spoke often about what it was like to be light-skinned and have a white grandparent. Bearden had a light complexion but his subject matter always covered people of African descent in rich ebony and cocoa hues. One could ask why he never portrayed subjects of his own complection.
I'm sure that Bearden was a terrific artist. But anybody with a pair of scissors can make a collage. In a similar vein, I wonder why David Hockney is praised when anyone can take the photographs he has. I wish the documentary explored on a deeper level what was so special about Bearden's collages or what else did he make besides collages.
Description of The Art of Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden?s art captures the diversity and richness of his life. With roots in North Carolina, Bearden migrated north at an early age, living in industrial Pittsburgh, vibrant Harlem, and, later in his life, on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. These four locales and his memories of their people, music, colors, and stories form the basis of Bearden?s collages and paintings, whose style exhibits a unique blend of cultural influences from Harlem, Europe, and Africa.This film traces Bearden?s entire career, including his paintings and watercolors of the 1940s, experimental collages of 1964, mature collages of the next two decades, large-scale public murals, and late landscapes. The documentary also features commentary by art historians, artists, and others who knew Bearden, including Wynton Marsalis, Albert Murray, and Emma Amos. Narrated by Morgan Freeman with readings by Danny Glover.
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