Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 22 Romare Bearden |
Factory Workers
Social Realism ~ Discrimination in the American Workforce~ About the Artist ~ About this Object ~ Look Questions ~ Think Questions
Key Points
- Romare Bearden documented black American life and culture in his SOCIAL-REALIST art.
- Fortune magazine COMMISSIONED Bearden to paint Factory Workers to illustrate an article on the importance of blacks in America's workforce during World War II.
- The bold CONTOUR lines and exaggerated features in Factory Workers reveal Bearden's experience as a political cartoonist.
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