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Tomorrow I May Be Far Away was painted in 1966-1967 by Romare Bearden. the title of this painting is taken from a blues piece first recorded in 1929 by Edith Johnson entitled, "Good Chib Blues": Aah, tomorrow I may be far away, Oh, tomorrow I may be far away, Don't try to jive me, sweet talk can't make me stay...( PBS). Growing up in Harlem and Mecklenburg county North Carolina Bearden wanted to illustrate his views of Black American life in his contrasting upbringings. This collage is broken into pieces, which helps to give it a dense, quilt-like texture. Bearden created this picture using mostly newspapers and magazines clippings but he also used other mediums in this work such as charcoal and graphite. Influenced by Pablo Picasso, Tomorrow I May Be Far Away is a cubist style painting that illustrates a rural family on a cabin porch, with thriving fields behind, flying birds and a train on the horizon to express the sense of loss and longing that was felt by migrants who fled the oppression of the South to settle in Northern industrial cities. (AP).
In 1922 John Sloan painted The City from Greenwich Village using oil on canvas. Sloan made more preparatory studies for this canvas than for any of his other pictures. Painting this picture from Sloan wanted to show the distant lights of downtown office buildings amid the gathering darkness of a winter evening. New York's skyscrapers seem to hover over the city like a shimmering celestial vision. Sloan's painting conveys a romanticized mood that contrasts strongly with the scenes of apartment life, crowded city streets, and deserted back alleys. (NGA) Yellow-green light contrasts dramatically with the plum-colored shades in the sky and the stark black of the buildings. The viewer peers out over Manhattan, where two tall buildings go upward. The soaring Woolworth Building dominates the distant skyscrapers. The curve of the elevated tracks helps to lead our eyes to this destination. Sloan wanted to make a record of the older city that was giving way to the towers of modern New York. (Scribbles).
Tomorrow I May Be Far Away was painted in 1966-1967 by Romare Bearden. the title of this painting is taken from a blues piece first recorded in 1929 by Edith Johnson entitled, "Good Chib Blues": Aah, tomorrow I may be far away, Oh, tomorrow I may be far away, Don't try to jive me, sweet talk can't make me stay...( PBS). Growing up in Harlem and Mecklenburg county North Carolina Bearden wanted to illustrate his views of Black American life in his contrasting upbringings. This collage is broken into pieces, which helps to give it a dense, quilt-like texture. Bearden created this picture using mostly newspapers and magazines clippings but he also used other mediums in this work such as charcoal and graphite. Influenced by Pablo Picasso, Tomorrow I May Be Far Away is a cubist style painting that illustrates a rural family on a cabin porch, with thriving fields behind, flying birds and a train on the horizon to express the sense of loss and longing that was felt by migrants who fled the oppression of the South to settle in Northern industrial cities. (AP).
In 1922 John Sloan painted The City from Greenwich Village using oil on canvas. Sloan made more preparatory studies for this canvas than for any of his other pictures. Painting this picture from Sloan wanted to show the distant lights of downtown office buildings amid the gathering darkness of a winter evening. New York's skyscrapers seem to hover over the city like a shimmering celestial vision. Sloan's painting conveys a romanticized mood that contrasts strongly with the scenes of apartment life, crowded city streets, and deserted back alleys. (NGA) Yellow-green light contrasts dramatically with the plum-colored shades in the sky and the stark black of the buildings. The viewer peers out over Manhattan, where two tall buildings go upward. The soaring Woolworth Building dominates the distant skyscrapers. The curve of the elevated tracks helps to lead our eyes to this destination. Sloan wanted to make a record of the older city that was giving way to the towers of modern New York. (Scribbles).
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