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...artist," says Romare Bearden, "is an art lover who finds that in all the art he sees, something is missing. To touch at the core of what he feels is missing, to put there what needs to be there, becomes the center of his life's work...
...Bearden, a heavyset, light-skinned Negro, what was missing was an adequate portrayal of the worlds he had grown up in and knew best-the farm life of the sharecropper in the South, where he was born, the tense, raucous life of his boyhood in Harlem, where his father was a city health inspector, and Boston, where as a youth Bearden played pro baseball in the Negro leagues. The 15 works on display at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom gallery are meant to fill in the gap. They range from scenes outside sharecroppers' shanties (see color opposite) and springtime...
...material as well as topic, they are timely, for the smoothly lacquered collages are built of magazine scraps and subway billboard posters painted, pasted together and occasionally combined by photomontage. Nonetheless, the pictures illustrate the difference between journalism and art, for Bearden brings to his panoramas a poet's fantasy, a professional's technique, and a philosopher's understanding of reality...
...ROMARE BEARDEN - Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. "As a Negro," says Bearden, "I do not need to go looking for 'happenings,' the absurd, or the surreal, because I have seen things out of my studio window on 125th Street that neither Dali nor Beckett nor Ionesco could have thought possible." With fantasy and pathos rather than bitterness, Bearden turns out blues to hang on a wall. From cutouts - crooked nose, laughing eyes, tearstained cheek - he collages surreal cityscapes of Negro life, then photographs and enlarges them, for the liveliest views on the avenue. Through...
...Beardens sat in stunned silence. Their wild scheme had obviously failed, and the captive Gilman, could see their desperation increasing. FBI Agent Francis Crosby boarded the plane to negotiate. Becoming hysterical, Bearden said that he would commit suicide before he would let himself be killed or captured. Seeing an opening, the Border Patrol's Gilman shot out his fist, dropped the older hijacker with an uppercut so powerful that it fractured his own fist. The FBI man and Simmons sprang on young Cody Bearden and, after ten grueling hours, it was all over. The Beardens, handcuffed, were...