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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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Stated. Bearden painted scenes of hardship by showing individual instances of human suffering. It’s fair to characterize the human figures in his paintings as part of showing examples of human hardship.

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Stated. The “complex social reality lying beyond the borders of the canvas” are outside the explicit subject of the paintings.

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Not stated. Although Bearden’s use of color conveys emotions, we’re never told his human figures symbolize emotions.

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