Bearden attended several different universities such as Lincoln University, the nation’s first Historically Black College and Boston University. Ultimately, he decided to attend and graduate from NYU in 1935 where he studied art, education, science and mathematics. Although he graduated with a science and education degree, he found ways to continue his artistic studies. He was a political cartoonist for an African-American newspaper called The Medley. From the 1930s through the 1960s, Romare worked as a social worker in New York City (DC Moore Gallery). Although …show more content…
He used different materials such as fabric, magazines and newspapers blended with paint to create semi-abstract collages. His style was inspired by Cubism. “Bearden arranged his collages on paper or board and then glued them down” (National Gallery of Art). Most of his work depicts a story about African-American life and/or culture. “His works’ complexity lies in their poetic abstraction, in which layered fragments of color and pattern evoke the rhythms, textures, and mysteries of a people’s experience” (Britannica Articles). The way Bearden layered different materials told a story about the life African-Americans lived and what their culture is all