Romare Bearden Texture Romare Bearden 1911 1983 Born

Romare Bearden & Texture

Romare Bearden 1911 - 1983 Born in Charlotte North Carolina African American artist and writer known for his collages.

Romare Bearden grew in the heart of the Harlem Renaissance - A flowering of African American art, literature, music, and culture in the United States led primarily by the African American community based in Harlem, New York

Three Folk Musicians -1967

The Woodshed 1969 Cut and pasted paper, cloth and paper on masonite 40. 5 x 50. 5”

Empress of the Blues - 1974 Acrylic paint, pencil, and printed paper Many of Romare Beardens works showed Jazz musicians and vocalists

Jazz II - 1980

The Piano Lesson 1983 Collage on board

TEXTURE - The element of art that refers to how things feel, or how they look as if they might feel on the surface

Three Types of Texture Real Texture - Texture that can be perceived through touch. Visual Texture - Illusion of a three dimensional surface based on the memory of how things feel. Invented texture – a kind of visual texture that does not represent a real texture but creates a sensation of one be repeating lines and shapes in a two-dimensional pattern.

Bearden and Texture Using different types of materials (newspaper, fabric, paint, other paper) gives Bearden’s collage texture. They have both real and visual texture because we can perceive it through our senses of both touch and sight.