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Together, we will explore different iterations of grief across space and time, in hopes of creating an accurate job description for professional mourners. Fresh grief summons us!
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Repetition allows for other nuances to come into the piece, and new things that hadn’t been considered before.
This piece is titled Odysseus Leaves Circe, by Romare Bearden. It is from his series “A Black Odyssey,” in which he interprets the story of the Odyssey “as a myth happening possibly in Africa.”
He first created this piece in collage, and then painted it again as a watercolor. What do you think was added or lost in this process?
Repetition distances the artist from the original feeling he was emoting through the art. Like the Greek professional mourners - in performing an act that should be spontaneous in funeral rites, they are distancing people from their actual grief.
What do you see?