collagemecrazy i-think-we-should-disagree: look at this thing i made (it’s incomplete okay so shh) saatchiart: untitled Katerina Christopoulou Greece Original: $5,000 fuckyeahmoleskines: taxidermycrows.tumblr.com darksilenceinsuburbia: Linder1. Romare Bearden, Collagist and Painter, Dies at 75 By C. GERALD FRASERPublished: March 13, 1988 Romare Bearden, a painter who artistically manipulated pieces of photographs and colored paper and became the nation's foremost collagist, died Saturday after suffering a stroke in New York Hospital. He was 75 years old and lived in lower Manhattan and St. Martin. He had been ill with bone cancer for a year and a half. Romare Howard Bearden was one of America's pre-eminent artists. President Carter honored Mr. June Kelly, his manager, said a mural by Mr. In the catalogue for a 1986 show at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, ''Romare Bearden: Origins and Progressions,'' Lowery S. Arne Ekstrom, of the Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery in Manhattan, said Mr. Mr. ''In the mid- to early 1930's, when he was studying with George Grosz at the Art Students League, his work was more figurative,'' she said. By the 1960's, Romare Bearden was one of two black artists who regularly showed their work in the increasing number of art galleries in New York City. Mr. Mr.
Godfried Donkor :: Afronova Gallery The series of boxers and the Madonnas form the basis of works in the exhibition ’The Olympians and muses’, the first solo exhibition by Ghanaian-British artist Godfried Donkor in South Africa. The featured boxers series are life size paintings of 18th and 19th century pugilists whose sporting exploits and lifestyle inspired the folklore and mythology of their time and profession. These were some of the earliest heroes to capture the public’s imagination. Sourced from archival illustrations and photos, the fighters are painted on a background of figures and text taken from the Financial Times newspaper. Donkor has always been fascinated by the sporting culture and mythology associated with this art form which can be found in all societies . The Madonna series was inspired by the glamour and music culture during a residency in Trinidad and Tobago.