16mm film BEARDEN PLAYS BEARDEN '81 painting African American art Harlem artist

Description: This is a 16 mm, color, sound, film produced by Phillip Morris Inc called " Bearden Plays Bearden " (1981) - It runs about 30 minutes , has titles , some lines/wear, faded color with some left (see pix), and maybe some splices (in the beginning there weren't any....), and no vinegar. I have not watched this print all the way through, just the first few minutes to determine color/condition. A cool art film on American Artist Romare Bearden...narrated by the great James Earl Jones !! And with an interview with Mythologist Joseph Campbell.!! Study of artist Romare Bearden and how his southern roots and years in Harlem have influenced his paintings and collages. In depicting, through his paintings, the black experience in America, he has been compared to such blues/jazz artists as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. Third World Cinema Productions, Seven-Up Co. Narrator: James Earl Jones ; featuring, Ntozake Shange ; Joseph Campbell ; Albert Murray. Director, Nelson E. Breen ; producer, Richard Bell ; director of photography, Julius Potocsny ; writers, Billie Allen, Nelson E. Breen ; editor, Harry Howard ; music, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Authors:Billie Allen (Screenwriter), Nelson E. Breen (Screenwriter, Film director), Richard E. Bell (Film producer), James Earl Jones (Narrator), Ntozake Shange, Joseph Campbell, Albert Murray, Bearden Plays Bearden LLC (Production company), Third World Cinema Productions (Production company), Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) (Publisher) Released as a motion picture in 1981"A film presentation by the The Seven-Up Company.""The Institute of New Cinema Artists, Inc. in association with Philip Morris Incorporated presents a Third World Cinema Production ..." Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935.He began his artistic career creating scenes of the American South. Later, he worked to express the humanity he felt was lacking in the world after his experience in the US Army during World War II on the European front. He returned to Paris in 1950 and studied art history and philosophy at the Sorbonne.Bearden's early work focused on unity and cooperation within the African-American community. After a period during the 1950s when he painted more abstractly, this theme reemerged in his collage works of the 1960s. The New York Times described Bearden as "the nation's foremost collagist" in his 1988 obituary.[3] Bearden became a founding member of the Harlem-based art group known as Spiral, formed to discuss the responsibility of the African-American artist in the civil rights movement.Bearden was the author or coauthor of several books. He also was a songwriter, known as co-writer of the jazz classic "Sea Breeze", which was recorded by Billy Eckstine, a former high school classmate at Peabody High School, and Dizzy Gillespie. He had long supported young, emerging artists, and he and his wife established the Bearden Foundation to continue this work, as well as to support young scholars. In 1987, Bearden was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Buyer to pay $ 9.00 media rate shipping. Outside of US bidders - please wait to pay until I send you an invoice - I can usually get a cheaper shipping cost than the one that will automatically be given to you on e bay. Thanks. I will combine shipping on multiple wins. Thank you for looking !

Price: 12 USD

Location: Santa Monica, California

End Time: 2024-12-06T01:26:05.000Z

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