A Comparison of Romare Bearden and Alice Walker

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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