Kaitlin Droluk- Romare Bearden












Romare Bearden was an American artist. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. What gave these collages special power was their size. Originally, they were no larger than 14 by 18 inches, but striving for monumentality, Bearden has them photographed and blown up to large black and white sheets, which he named “projections”. Their size was typically six by eight feet or four by five feet. Many reviewers hailed them as ‘startling’, ‘emphatic’, ‘moving’, ‘memorable’ and ‘propagandistic in the best sense’. One of the collages that caught my eye by Romare Bearden was the collage “Mother and Child,” 1971. I love the solid background and how simple the overall piece is. I love the detail in the clothes. 

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