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"The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs."
Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was an American born African-American artist who made the Caribbean his second home. Bearden grew as an artist not by learning how to create new techniques and mediums, but by his life experiences, and the different decades he created art and the different events that took place completely reshaped his vision of art. In the early 1970s, Bearden and his wife Nanette established a second residence on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, his wife's ancestral home, and some of his later work reflected the island's lush landscapes. |
