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Visual Artists are people who usually create art for visual perception in drawing, sculpture, graphics and painting, while authors are people who write novels, essays and poems for reading and understanding. When it comes to comparing Romare Bearden and Alice Walker, Romare Bearden was born in Charlotte North Carolina while Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia with both of them being born in the South at the time of racial segregation in the south. They both move to New York to pursue their carriers with Bearden moving to New York at a young age with his parents while Walker came to New York later in life to complete her education. Bearden and Walker both were social workers in the New York metropolitan area while doing working on their arts and writings at nights and weekends.
Also their works were literally base on the life of African Americans. Walker wrote about life and living as African American and also abuse with African American families while Bearden painted about the living environment within the African American communities. Both Walker and Bearden are civil right activist. Walker at her college year in Spelman College in 1962 was invited by Martin Luther King to his home and later participated in “The March of Washington” in the year 1963. Meanwhile Bearden organized and form an artist group called Artist Collective Group to support the 1963 civil right movement which was led by Martin Luther King.
Another similarity between Bearden and Walker is the inspiration they generated from their travels outside the country into their works. Bearden developed maturity in his work style after his travel to Paris and other European countries where he was able to master his collage technique. While Walker wa...
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One can see that Romare Bearden's artwork was highly influenced by music. It can be seen in the bright and lively New York club scenes with the dancing couples and band performances. It can also be seen in the collages that depict the gritty music culture outside of the performances in the Storyville. Aside from the imagery, Bearden even used the improvisational method of collage that he associated greatly with jazz. Bearden was certainly a genius at bringing us vibrant, upbeat scenes of life in the jazz and blues culture.
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W.E.B Dubois describes double consciousness as the sensation of an individual’s feeling through their identity that is divided into several parts, making it hard or impossible to have one identity. “The Souls of Black Folk” is mainly known for the 20th century problem known as the color line. The color-line is a reference to the racial segregation which prevailed in the United States after the eradication of enslavement. “Everyday Use” goes hand and hand with the eradication of enslavement due to the history of African Americans and how they were treated. W.E.B DuBois and Alice Walker would both agree that double consciousness, history, culture, and society’s expectations are some of the main reasons that individuals have a tough time finding
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Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston are similar to having the same concept about black women to have a voice. Both are political, controversial, and talented experiencing negative and positive reviews in their own communities. These two influential African-American female authors describe the southern hospitality roots. Hurston was an influential writer in the Harlem Renaissance, who died from mysterious death in the sixties. Walker who is an activist and author in the early seventies confronts sexually progression in the south through the Great Depression period (Howard 200). Their theories point out feminism of encountering survival through fiction stories. As a result, Walker embraced the values of Hurston’s work that allowed a larger
The Civil Rights Movement was the largest influence on Walker’s writings. In a decision handed down by the Supreme Court in 1954, the beginning of civil rights occurred. In the decision of Brown vs. The Board of Education, the court ruled that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal because they gave AfricanAmerican children a sense of inferiority and retarded their educational and mental development. That case began the civil rights uprising in the United States.
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