When Sound Becomes Sight What does jazz look like? How does a blues chord take shape on canvas? For Romare Bearden, these weren’t abstract questions—they were the very essence of his artistic pursuit. Bearden’s collages don’t just depict music—they sound like it. They pulse with rhythm, improvise with color, and layer fragments like harmonies in a Duke Ellington chart. For Bearden, music was not a background theme; it was a structural principle and a cultural lifeline. His work emer...
