Romare Bearden/Collage Questions Name: ___________________________ Date: ________________________

Romare Bearden was born in 1911, in ____________________. When he was a kid, his nickname was ___________. In 1914, his family moved _________ like many African-American families living in the south. His family settled in ____________, New York. After he graduated from college he became a ___________ ____________. For many years he could only work on his art during his _____ ______. Bearden loved ____. Among his pets were Tuttle , Rusty, Mikie and Gypo. Bearden read all the time. His life, like his studio, was crammed with ______poetry, philosophy, _________ works about myth, religion, _____, and ancient literature. He also wrote _____ and articles, especially about ____________ _____________ art and life. Bearden made _____ using many different materials, but he was most famous for his _________. Snippets from _____________, photographs, painted papers, _____ posters, and art reproductions were among his materials. These were his paints. He arranged them on paper or board and then glued them down. The Subjects Bearden Painted were: African-American ____ and traditions, stories from religion, history, literature, and myth. Blues singers and ______ ____________, and landscapes.

Bearden loved ______, especially ____ and blues. He described jazz as nger-snapping, head-shaking enjoyment. Many well-known jazz performers, such as ____ Ellington and Fats Waller, visited his _____ when he was a child. For years Bearden ______ and worked near world famous ________ clubs, such as the Lafayette and the Savoy. When Bearden made ___________, he often added ________ and other materials. Bearden sometimes borrowed ideas from other _______ and then mixed those ideas with his own to create something ______. Bearden was also a ______. The museum of __________ art in NYC had a major exhibition in ____all work by Romare Bearden! He was being recognized as one of Americas ___________ artists. He encouraged younger African-American artists. Romare Bearden made paintings, ___________, prints, watercolors and mosaics and experimented with ____ techniques all of his life. Romare Bearden died March 12, ____. What is diversity? The state or fact of being diverse; _____________; unlikeness: diversity of opinion. Variety. A point of ____________. What is collage? A __________ or design created by ___________ basically flat elements such as newspaper, _____________, printed text and illustrations, _____________, cloth, string, etc., to a flat surface. "Collage" was originally a ________ word meaning "__ _________."