Romare Bearden was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935.
Bearden in an army uniform, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944
Patchwork Quilt, cut-and-pasted cloth and paper with synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 1970, Museum of Modern Art
The Black American in Search of His Identity (1969) at the National Gallery of Art's showing of Afro-Atlantic Histories in Washington, DC in 2022
Romare Bearden, The Calabash, collage, 1970, Library of Congress
Collage is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
Kurt Schwitters, Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90x144 cm, Staatliche Museum, Berlin.
Pablo Picasso, 1913–14, Head (Tête), cut and pasted colored paper, gouache and charcoal on paperboard, 43.5 x 33 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Grete Stern, Sueño No. 28: Love without Illusion, 1951, gelatin silver print
