As One Momare Bearden Analysis

The artist that influenced me to create the project I am presenting today is Romare Bearden. Due to the fact, he didn’t learned new techniques and mediums as an artist, but by his life personal experiences. Many of his work had a eye connection in the middle of one’s point of view, many types of geometric shapes, and had an linear and semi-abstract style (Patchwork Quilt). He also had struggled with two artistic sides of himself: his background as “a student of literature and of artistic traditions, and being a black human being involves very real experiences, figurative and concrete”. In the 1960s, civil rights movement he started experimenting again with collage forms such as clippings from magazines, old newspapers, glossy scraps to improve his work. Trying to show how not only were African-American rights moving forward, but so was his socially conscious art. …show more content…
During the mid 1930s through the mid 1940s two African American athletes helped change the world of sports (Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson). Both of them fought and ignore the segregation, racism discrimination, and criticism during the game; they just played the sport like nothing happen. Not to mention, Robinson was the first African American player to play in the major league since Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, and Jesse Owens was the first African American to win multiple medals (4 gold) won the Olympics in Germany 1936. Another noticeable man in the game of sports was Bill Russell, who was the first African American to win an NBA title in the year of 1968. All of these men helped bring inspiration to the African American society. In today’s sports society there are 70% of African Americans in the NFL and 75% in the