The Romare Bearden website Let’s Walk the Block is very entertaining. It is a very organized, creative and fun website. People can learn a lot from this website since it has Barden’s biography, various ways of understanding The Block and a variety of art activities for children.
It has a guide tour that explains what The Block is. It says that it is a panel collage that captures the life of a single block in Harlem. It says that this art is not literal, that it is based on Barden’s imagination. It also tells that Barden used different types of collages materials such as photographs and different types of fabrics, papers and writing utensils (paint, ink, pencil, markers and etc). It also gives people the opportunity to listen to jazz music while analyzing The Block. The website says that while listening to the jazz song, people need to observe the colors and shapes because the notes make up the art work. The website also has ways of incorporating The Block into fun activities for children. For example, for young children there is an activity called Fun Shapes in which children create their own collages using the shapes of The Block.
*Question: It would be interesting to know how much time it took Barden to create The Block
*Date: November 7, 2010
*Time: 11:51 am
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