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Re: Romare Bearden

From: Heather Leal (rayleal)
Date: Tue Feb 01 2000 - 08:52:58 PST

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    There is a children's book of poems called:

    The Block : Poems by Langston Hughes, Illustrated by Romare Bearden
    ISBN: 067086501X

    The illustrations are collages of the city neighborhoods that are the subject
    of the poetry. It is a great book.
    I just tried collages based on Bearden's work with my 6th and 7th graders. It
    was semi-successful. It was very difficult for many of them to create a
    scene or picture, instead of just a collection of magazine pictures, which is
    what I tried to emphasize. The most successful created people from different
    parts of pictures and different kinds of paper and made a scene for the
    people to fit into. We used the Scholastic Art issue about him from a couple
    of years ago (sorry, I don't have the date with me.) I didn't have The Block
    available, but I think it would have helped. It was harder than I expected it
    to be, for my example too. I used their neighborhood and things they like as
    subjects. We had looked at some examples that revolved around jazz musicians,
    that was the tie in for things they liked. Then I realized that most of our
    magazines were National Geographics, which had more exotic pictures than
    their neighborhoods, so the pictures took on a fantasy aspect.

    Good luck,
    Heather 

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