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Miriam Schapiro - a Canadian artist , and Romare Bearden - an African-American artist , find several convergences as well as dissimilarities in their collages . Such divergences and convergences emanate from the source of the respective artists ' motivation for the collages . To begin with , both artists ' works have political and social connotations . Moreover , the works are usually of monumental size . The 2 artists ' collages are however different with regard to specific s This is because while Bearden 's works focus on social issues

of African-American human rights , Schapiro 's works concentrate on feminism Through his collages , Bearden demonstrates the progress African-Americans ' human rights progress . Conversely , Schapiro uses her collages to highlight the significance of females as well as their experiences . In effect , Schapiro and Bearden use their collage artworks to commentary on various social and political issues (National Gallery of Art

For example , one similarity of the 2 artists ' collages is their focus on social and political affairs of their time . Bearden urges African-Americans ' push for human rights by portraying the progress of the human rights progress . Likewise , by calling for the acknowledgement that women are important members of society , Schapiro touches on social and political issues . In addition , probably to demonstrate the importance of their s the 2 artists make large collages . For example , Schapiro 's 1976 Kimono collage measures 50 by 60 feet Similarly , Bearden 's The Calabash collage is large

Bearden however differs from Schapiro with regard to the artists respective s . While...

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