Romare Bearden "The Family"
Khari Vanderbilt
Mr.Inguito
English 1C
October 13, 2014 Romare Bearden's "The Family" (1941) & "The Family (1975) Comparisons
Romare Bearden, a great artist that expresses many feelings throughout his photos. He expresses different types of feelings and meanings through colors, background, character demeanor, and even the posture of the characters in the picture. My favorite painting by Romare Bearden has to be "The Family"(1941) due to the fact that I had a personal connection to the picture. I never knew of Romare Bearden's other painting that related to this one which is "The Family"(1975). This is a similar picture but the family isn't as depressed as the family in the first picture. This family doesn't seem to be struggling and appears to be having a good time at the dinner table with one another. These two pictures both have a different meaning but are very similar and share a lot in comparison. In the first picture "The Family" (1941), the family looks like they may be struggling economically. The table only shows a fork but there is no food, which can either mean that the family doesn’t have much to eat or what they have they can’t eat all of. It looks like they may only eat the bread they have on the table. The oil lamp on the table shows that the house they live in may not have electricity which could also mean they are having money issues and haven’t paid their bills or it could be symbolic of the father “burning the midnight oil”. The background of the picture shows many colors in scattered shapes on the wall which can illustrate chaos or that the family doesn’t “have their stuff together”. The man sitting at the table has his hand in the lady’s face which says to me that he doesn’t want anything to do with her and the baby or wants to be left alone. The parents are also both painted blue and grey which symbolizes sadness and anger; they may be feeling this way because of the hard times they may be in. The time frame of this painting was during
Mr.Inguito
English 1C
October 13, 2014 Romare Bearden's "The Family" (1941) & "The Family (1975) Comparisons
Romare Bearden, a great artist that expresses many feelings throughout his photos. He expresses different types of feelings and meanings through colors, background, character demeanor, and even the posture of the characters in the picture. My favorite painting by Romare Bearden has to be "The Family"(1941) due to the fact that I had a personal connection to the picture. I never knew of Romare Bearden's other painting that related to this one which is "The Family"(1975). This is a similar picture but the family isn't as depressed as the family in the first picture. This family doesn't seem to be struggling and appears to be having a good time at the dinner table with one another. These two pictures both have a different meaning but are very similar and share a lot in comparison. In the first picture "The Family" (1941), the family looks like they may be struggling economically. The table only shows a fork but there is no food, which can either mean that the family doesn’t have much to eat or what they have they can’t eat all of. It looks like they may only eat the bread they have on the table. The oil lamp on the table shows that the house they live in may not have electricity which could also mean they are having money issues and haven’t paid their bills or it could be symbolic of the father “burning the midnight oil”. The background of the picture shows many colors in scattered shapes on the wall which can illustrate chaos or that the family doesn’t “have their stuff together”. The man sitting at the table has his hand in the lady’s face which says to me that he doesn’t want anything to do with her and the baby or wants to be left alone. The parents are also both painted blue and grey which symbolizes sadness and anger; they may be feeling this way because of the hard times they may be in. The time frame of this painting was during