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In this series, one of the pieces is entitled Baptism.
Bearden was influenced by Francisco Zubaran, and based Baptism on Zubaran ’ s piece The Virgin Protectress of the Carthusians.
Bearden wanted to show how the water that is about to be poured on the subject being baptized is always moving, giving the whole collage a feel and sense of temporal flux.
This is a direct connection with the fact that African Americans ’ rights were always changing, and society itself was in a temporal flux at the time he created this image.
Bearden wanted to show how nothing is fixed, and represented this idea throughout the image: not only is the subject being baptized about to have water poured from the top, but the subject is also about to be submerged in water.
Every aspect of the collage is moving and will never be the same more than once, which was congruent with society at the time.

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