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Resource Objectives  
The material in this resource will help students learn the following about Romare Bearden:
- Bearden used personal memories, African-American cultural history, and
literature as the source of his subject matter. He placed aspects of
African-American life within the context of universal themes.
- Bearden's style was influenced by numerous sources, including Western
European art, African sculpture, the art of his contemporaries in America
and Mexico, and music—especially blues and jazz.
- Bearden is most famous for his work in collage, which he used in unique
and innovative ways. He also made paintings in watercolor, gouache, and
oil, edition prints, monotypes, murals, and one assemblage sculpture.
- Through his involvement with the arts community, Bearden empowered and
promoted artists of color.
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