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The paintings of Romare Bearden (1914–1988) represent a double triumph. ██ ███ ████ ████ ████ █████████ ████ ████████ █ ████████ ██████████ ██ ██████████ ███ ██████████ ████████ ██████████ ██ ██████████ ██ ████ ███████ ██ ██████ ███████ ██ █ ██████ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ███ █████████ ██ ████████████████ ███████████

Spotlight · Romare Bearden's paintings were innovative and explored African-American experience

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Bearden's style · Combined elements of painting and collage

Showed how commonplace subjects can change based on techniques of artist.

Bearden's portrayal of African-American life · Painted grim scenes of hardships of 1930

Impact of Bearden's portrayal · Moved beyond "protest painting" and showed individual suffering

Another aspect of Bearden's style · Muted colors to suggest melancholy or despair

Other kinds of paintings from Bearden · Religious ceremony, musical performance, family life

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Bearden's goal · Wanted to reveal depth of African-American experience

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Spotlight

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The author never comments on the creative techniques of journalism and documentary photography. So we have no support for the belief that this photography did not involve innovative creative techniques.

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Although typical protest painting did not reveal individual human suffering, the author never suggests that journalism and documentary photography also did not reveal individual human suffering. There’s a difference between the protest painting described in P3 and the journalistic and documentary photography mentioned in P4.

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If anything, this is something journalism and documentary photography did do.

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Supported, because journalism and documentary photography were oversimplfied and clouded an understanding of African-American experience. Bearden’s work portrayed the richness of African-American life, whereas journalistic and documentary photography did not.

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If anyting, this is something journalism and documentary photography did do.

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