Romare Bearden Art Quotes

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Romare Bearden Art Quotes – (6 quotes)

Romare Bearden - Jammin-at-the-Savoy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Artwork 
African-American artist Romare Bearden’s “Jammin’ at the Savoy” is an impassioned celebration of jazz’s revolutionary style. The work’s innovative spatial composition and spontaneous bursts of color, harmonies and dissonances replicate the music’s improvisational rhythms. Bearden (1911 – 1988) grew up in Harlem and was strongly influenced by its proliferation of jazz music. With a style derived from Cubism, Bearden strove to universalize the experience of African-Americans. Bearden created an astounding 2,000 works, and is regarded as one of the 20th century’s foremost African-American artists.
Romare Bearden – From the Desire category:

What you don’t need is just as important as what you do need. (Romare Bearden)

Romare Bearden – From the Difficulty category:

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you’re always at issue… (Romare Bearden)

Romare Bearden – From the Discipline category:

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. (Romare Bearden)

Romare Bearden – From the Education category:

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. (Romare Bearden)

Romare Bearden – From the Ego category:

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I’ve gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements. (Romare Bearden)

Romare Bearden – From the Immortality category:

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies. (Romare Bearden)

Editor: Robert Genn