Bearden

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Meta

• State: production
• Production: https://bearden.artsy.net | Heroku
• Staging: https://bearden-staging.artsy.net | Heroku
• GitHub: https://github.com/artsy/bearden/
• Point People: @jonallured

Setup

• Fork the project to your GitHub account

• Clone your fork:

  $ git clone git@github.com:your-github-username/bearden.git
  

• Read and run setup script:

  $ cat bin/setup
  $ bin/setup
  

Tests

Once setup, you can run the tests like this:

$ bundle exec rake spec

Note: the default rake task is setup to run tests and RuboCop.

Starting Server

Foreman is used to manage the server configuration, so starting a server is as easy as foreman start, but you might want to use the development version instead:

$ foreman start -f Procfile.dev

See the Procfile examples for more.

Deploying

PRs merged to the master branch are automatically deployed to staging. Production is automatically deployed upon merges to release. Create such a PR with deploy_pr or this handy link.

API

See docs/API.

About the name Bearden

For its ability to "collage" together different data sources, this project was named in honor of Romare Bearden (1911–1988), painter, collagist and founding member of The Spiral Group.

A pioneer of African-American art and celebrated collagist, Romare Bearden seamlessly blended images of African-American life in the urban and rural South with references to popular culture, religion, and Classical art and myth. He depicted jazz musicians, monumental subjects, nudes, or mythological characters set against abstract, fragmented backgrounds. Each of his collages integrated images painted in gouache, watercolors, oil paints, which he would then fix to paper or canvas. Bearden sought to give the African-American experience a universal, monumental, and Classical representation: he would often recast Classical events with African-American subjects, as in The Return of Odysseus (Homage to Pintoricchio and Benin) (1977). By rendering Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus as African-Americans, Bearden drew the political injustices of his time into a universal, allegorical context. —Artsy

License

MIT License. See LICENSE.