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An Overview of American Art

An Overview of American Art. USHAP. Hudson River School. Mid-19 th century landscape painters influenced by Romanticism National identity Documented life of Native Americans Realism of American wilderness. Thomas Cole. Albert Bierstadt. Out of Many pg374. Asher Durand.

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An Overview of American Art

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  1. An Overview of American Art USHAP

  2. Hudson River School • Mid-19th century landscape painters influenced by Romanticism • National identity • Documented life of Native Americans • Realism of American wilderness Thomas Cole Albert Bierstadt Out of Many pg374 Asher Durand

  3. Progressive Era (1900-1917) (American Realism) • Jacob Riis (1849-1914): Journalist who helped expose poverty in NYC. One of the first modern photographers. • Muckrakers • Out Of Many pg735 Edward Willis Redfield (1909) • Jacob Riis, How the other Half Lives. 1910. New York.

  4. The Harlem Renaissance (c. 1919-1930s) • African American neighborhood of NYC • Emergence of African American culture in mainstream America • WWI  Great Migration Archibald Motley (1929)

  5. Beauford Delaney (1946) Aaron Douglas (1936)

  6. The Southwest • Georgia O’Keefe (1887-1986) • Modern American art starts to influence European art • Abstraction and representation • Inspired by the Southwest

  7. New Deal Art (1933-1939) • FDR’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) allocated $300 million artists, writers and teachers. • Murals in public spaces • Documentary impulse • Depicts social, racial, economic injustice

  8. Fletcher Martin, Mine Rescue, 1939

  9. Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (1936) Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930)

  10. Abstract Expressionism Post WWII • Worldwide Influence • Rebellious, nihilistic, anarchic • Influenced by Cubism, Futurism in Europe (Picasso) Jackson Pollack, No. 5 (1948)

  11. Barnett Newman, Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? (1966) Jane Frank (1960) Hans Hofmann, The Gate (1959) Arshile Gorky (1944) Clyfford Still (1957)

  12. Pop Art 1950s-1960s • Hybrid between painting and sculpture, incorporates other objects into paintings • Advertising and comic book styles as well as abstract. Andy Warhol (1968)

  13. Andy Warhol Tom Wesselman Robert Rauschenberg Roy Lichtenstein

  14. Realism 1920s-present • Occurring at the same time as other art movements • Appeal of everyday America Edward Hopper

  15. Norman Rockwell

  16. Wrap Up Quiz 1. Name three American artists and their corresponding art movement. 2. Explain the art created during the Great Depression and how it connects to larger historical issues of that decade. 3. Which art movement seems to have the most influence on art and media today?

  17. Extra slides

  18. William Glackens (1898) Robert Henri (1902) Jacob Riis (1888) John Sloan (1912)

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