Romare Bearden: Three Folk Musicians

Title: "Three Folk Musicians

Created By: Romare Bearden

Written By: Madison Herley

I choose the painting "Three Folk Musicians" created by Romare Bearden in the year of 1967 because my eyes were drawn to all of the different mixed media used in order for the artist Bearden to create this piece. This piece of art was created using a various amount of paper with paint and graphite on canvas. I enjoyed admiring all of the different pieces of objects used in order to create this collage. It was different and unique for this time period. Bearden is known as "one of America's pre-eminent artists" and "the nations foremost collagist." In addition, Bearden got his style of creating art with the attribution to Cubist pioneers Pablo Picasso and George Braque and then developed his own twist on visual art. Furthermore, researchers believes the "Three Folk Musicians" was inspired by Bearden's childhood in Charlotte and Harlem in the 1930s. Also, researchers believe it can be seen as a metaphor of the African American culture portraying the musical tradition in Harlem. Bearden also had a passion was music as well as art so a lot of Bearden's pieces are created around the idea of music. Therefore, I like this painting "Three Folk Musicians" the most by Bearden because he used two elements that he loved to create a master piece.