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Bearden Created the Visual Equivalent of Jazz
Music - particularly jazz, the blues, folk - was a persistent theme in the life and art of African-American artist Romare Bearden. Jazz musicians were among his close friends. He wrote lyrics to supplement his meager income in the early 1950s. Many of his paintings are named after songs.
Paintings throughout Bearden's career don't merely depict musicians and bands. They explore ways in which color and form might visually express something parallel to the audible fluidity, improvisation, structure, stir, and atmosphere experienced when one listens to, or plays, music.
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