Romare Bearden “Insight and Innovation”

DC Moore Gallery

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DC Moore Gallery presents Romare Bearden: Insight and Innovation, an exhibition that presents some of the finest examples of Bearden’s work in collage, watercolor, and oil, highlighting his mastery of multiple artistic techniques and mediums. While probably best known for his powerful collages, Bearden also created modernist tempera paintings, lyrical abstractions, photographic enlargements that he called Projections, lush watercolors, and jazz and blues monotypes.

In 1981, Bearden (1911-1988) completed a unique, large-scale collage titled Artist with Paintings and Model that is both a visual autobiography and his only known self-portrait. Depicting himself holding a brush with his arm draped over a painting, he identified the collage as a view of his studio around 1941. Motifs that allude to his artistic training and art historical sources appear throughout, in an evocative narrative of personal history.
The painting on the easel in the collage is a depiction of The Visitation of 1941, a strongly modernist tempera on paper that, along with a group of about twenty others, was the first time that Bearden focused on Southern themes and childhood memories, which became the foundation of much of his later work in collage. Through the interplay of abstraction and representation, the painting presents the biblical story of the visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth as an everyday encounter between neighbors, set in the hills of North Carolina.
Seen together in this exhibition, The Visitation and Artist with Painting and Model are major artistic statements that offer a rare opportunity to view key works created by Bearden at the beginning of his career and when he was a mature artist.

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Schedule

from March 20, 2014 to April 19, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-03-20 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Romare Bearden

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