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20th-Century American Art
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The National Gallery of Art's East
Building is a constantly changing mosaic
where the expanding collection of twentieth-
century art on view includes paintings,
sculpture, and works on paper by
American artists such as Calder, Smith,
de Kooning, Bearden, and Lichtenstein.
Titles on this compilation include:
Mobile by Alexander Calder (24 mins.)
David Smith, American Sculptor,
1906–1965 (28 mins.)
Willem de Kooning: Paintings (12 mins.)
The Art of Romare Bearden (30 mins.)
Roy Lichtenstein: The Art of
the Graphic Image (20 mins.)
All programs are closed captioned
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The Art of Romare Bearden
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The visual narratives and abstractions of this preeminent African American artist explore the places where he lived and worked: the rural South, Pittsburgh, Harlem, and the Caribbean. Bearden's central themes—religion, jazz and blues, history, literature, and the authenticities of black life—endured throughout his remarkable career in watercolors, oils, and especially collages and photomontages from the 1940s through the 1980s.
This comprehensive packet contains an eighty-page text with related teaching activities. A music CD, Romare Bearden Revealed, features performances by the Branford Marsalis Quartet. 20 slides, 6 color study prints, 5 overhead transparencies, CD, and booklet
Note: Available for a nine-month loan period, permitting extended use in classroom or library settings.
This program is also available online.
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The Art of Romare Bearden
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Romare Bearden's art captures the diversity and richness that was his life. With roots in North Carolina, Bearden migrated north at an early age, living in industrial Pittsburgh and vibrant Harlem, and spent later years on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. These four locales and his memories of their people, music, colors, and stories form the bases of Bearden's collages and paintings. This film, narrated by Morgan Freeman with readings by Danny Glover, traces the artist's career using new and archival
footage to demonstrate the artistic impact of Bearden's memories and art-historical models. (30 mins., closed captioned)
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