Bearden intended to not focus on Christ but he wanted to emulate rather the emotions and actions of the crowds gathered around the Crucifixion.

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 why Bearden focuses on Christ ’ s body first, to portray the idea of the myth, and then highlights the crowd, to show how the idea is passed on to men.

There have been numerous museum shows of Bearden's work since then, including a 1971 show at the Museum of Modern Art entitled Prevalence of Ritual, an exhibition of his highly prized prints entitled A Graphic Odyssey showing the work of the last fifteen years of his life, and the 2005 National Gallery of Art retrospective entitled The Art of Romare Bearden.

In 2011, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery exhibited its second show of the artist's work, Romare Bearden ( 1911-1988 ): Collage, A Centennial Celebration, an intimate grouping of 21 collages produced between 1964 and 1983.

His charcoal portrait of blues guitarist Blind Lemon Jefferson was included in a New York City Kenkeleba Gallery art show called Jus ' Jass, which also included works by artists such as Romare Bearden, Charles Searles and Joe Overstreet.

Bearden grew as an artist not by learning how to create new techniques and mediums, but by his life experiences, and the different decades he created art and the different events that took place completely reshaped his vision of art.

A mural by Romare Bearden in the Gateway Center subway station in Pittsburgh is worth $ 15 million, more than the cash-strapped transit agency expected, raising questions about how it should be cared for once it is removed before the station is demolished.

Bearden appeared several times in the BBC Documentary by Adam Curtis called The Power of Nightmares where he talked of his involvement with the Mujahadeen, the Afghan Arabs and how he was assigned to the role by William Casey the then current Director of Central Intelligence.

Lawrence is among the best-known 20th-century African-American painters, a distinction shared with Romare Bearden.

The eye of the viewer is drawn to the middle of the image first, where Bearden has rendered Christ ’ s body.

Bearden turned to music, co-writing the hit song Sea Breeze, which was recorded by Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie ; it is still considered a jazz classic.

Currently ( 2009 ) the mayor of the City of Weaver is Garry Bearden.

Bearden is a city in Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States.

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Bearden is a town in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Milton Bearden ( born April, 1940 ) is a retired Central Intelligence Agency officer, author and film consultant.

Bearden is President and CEO of the Asia-Africa Projects Group, a Washington, DC-based resource development and advisory services firm.

Mr. Bearden is a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, and has contributed to Foreign Affairs and to the book about September 11, 2001, How Did This Happen ?, published by PublicAffairs.

Featured in the collection is Terry Adkins, Romare Bearden, Skunder Boghossian, Robert Colescott, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, Hector Hyppolite, Serge Jolimeau, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Philome Obin, Betye Saar, Nari Ward and Hale Woodruff, among others.

Bearden has given no details as to what further development is needed.

He is from Knoxville, Tennessee and played high school football and soccer at Bearden High School in Knoxville.

However, Lucas ignores his father's request, and attempts to outrun the law, but fails to evade them and dies as a result ( the last lines read: " Then right outside of Bearden, they made the fatal strike ./ He left the road at 90, that's all there is to say / The Devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day ").

However, not only because of the message conveyed, but also Bearden ’ s vernacular realism represented in the work makes The Visitation noteworthy ; Bearden describes two figures in The Visitation somewhat realistically but does not fully follow the pure realism by distorting and exaggerating some parts of their body, to “ convey an experiential feeling or subjective disposition .” Bearden ’ s quotation also demonstrates his supportive view to vernacular realism: “ the Negro artists must not be content with merely recording a scene as a machine.

According to Bearden himself, Christ ’ s life, death, and resurrection are the greatest expressions of man ’ s humanism, not because of Christ ’ s actual existence but the idea of him that lived on through other men.

Bearden found this to be a burden on African artists, because he saw this idea creating an emphasis on reproducing something that already exists in the world.

The idea for the school was first introduced in a sermon by Ashley S. Johnson at the Bearden Christian Church in 1892 when Johnson proposed the idea of a college level school for the gospels.

Further on in the documentary, referring to the Afghan Arabs Bearden said: " The only times that I ran into any real trouble in Afghanistan was when I ran into ' these guys ' - You know there'd be kind of a ' moment ' or two that would look a little bit like the bar scene in Star Wars, ya know.

According to the annals of the former Moscow CIA station chief Milton Bearden, the Rosenholz files were not seized on January 15, 1990, when demonstrators stormed the Ministry of State Security ( GDR ) in Berlin, but instead only when former US president George H. W. Bush personally contacted the chief of the Berlin CIA station.

His comeback attempt was the subject of the film The Stratton Story which starred Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson, with big-leaguers Gene Bearden, Bill Dickey and Jimmy Dykes in cameo appearances.

From the luggage, they learned that the two air pirates, far from being Cubans, were native Americans, subsequently identified as Leon Bearden, 50-year-old ex-convict from Coolidge, Ariz., and his son, Cody, 16, a high-school junior.

Bearden had struggled with two artistic sides of himself: his background as “ a student of literature and of artistic traditions, and being a black human being involves very real experiences, figurative and concrete ”, which was at combat with the mid-twentieth century “ exploration of abstraction ”.

He allowed three earned runs on eight hits and was in place for the win before being replaced in the eighth inning by Bearden.

Scott Stevens is an award winning television weatherman who, a decade ago, began investigating the claims of Lt. Col Tom Bearden that North America was being subjected to full-time weather modification.

In 1956, Bearden began studying with a Chinese calligrapher, whom he credits with introducing him to new ideas about space and composition in painting.

In 2001, Bearden predicted that the first commercial products based on the MEG would be " rolling off the production lines in about one year ," and as early as 2002 claimed to have a prototype of the device that produced " 100 times more power out than was input.

" In May 2008, with the MEG still not in production, Tom Bearden claimed he needed about $ 11 million to develop it to a viable commercial form.

Thunder Road ( 1958 ) was loosely based on an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was said to have crashed to his death on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee somewhere between Bearden Hill and Morrell Road.

The film was based loosely on an incident in which a driver transporting moonshine was said to have crashed to his death on Kingston Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee between Bearden Hill and Morrell Road.

Nationally-syndicated columnist Grantland Rice argued that Doby and Gene Bearden, the Indians would have finished in fourth or fifth place.

Correspondents have been Tom Bearden, Betty Ann Bowser, Susan Dentzer, Elizabeth Farnsworth, Kwame Holman, Spencer Michels, Fred de Sam Lazaro, Paul Solman, and others.

For instance, Bearden, Murphy, and Rapoport showed that with respect to expected revenue maximizing policies, people tend to price too high when they have high levels of inventory and too low when their inventory levels are low.