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The American Dream &

The American Dream &. The artists who dared to be different!. What was happening in America when this famous painting was created?. Socrates. Aristotle. Plato. Raphael The School of Athens 1510-11 Fresco Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome. Who is he?

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The American Dream &

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  1. The American Dream& The artists who dared to be different!

  2. What was happening in America when this famous painting was created? Socrates Aristotle Plato Raphael The School of Athens 1510-11 Fresco Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome

  3. Who is he? His American dream started in Providence Harbor!

  4. 1492: William Bradford stepped off the Mayflower. 1624 The island of Manhattan is purchased from local Indians; • 1683 Quakers establish the first school of the Mid-Atlantic colonies in Pennsylvania. They are among the first groups in America to teach both girls and boys to read and write. 1773 Angered by the tea tax and the British East India Company's monopoly on tea trade, the independent New England colonial merchants dump the precious cargo overboard into the Boston harbor. This incident is called the Boston Tea Party. 1775 The American War of Independence begins. Paul Revere makes his midnight ride through Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 18. • 1788 The Constitution of the United States, a document organizing government into three branches—Executive (President), Legislative (Congress), and Judicial (Supreme Court)—is ratified.

  5. What was the American Dream? • Asher Brown Durand. "Kindred Spirits", 46x36",1849, oil, New York Public Library. From: The Hudson River School: American Landscape Artists.

  6. Albert Bierstadt. "Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California", 72x120", 1868, oil, Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian.

  7. Elizabeth Freake and Baby early 17th century

  8. Why did t hey come?

  9. To find the AMERICAN DREAM?

  10. Last quarter of the 19th c. • Albert Bierstadt. "Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California", 72x120", 1868, oil, Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian.

  11. Was it ideal?

  12. Pennsylvania mining boys: late 19th c.

  13. Immigrants at Ellis Island Hopeful and filled with desire. Willing to sacrifice and work hard

  14. Women at Ellis Island They came from all corners of the world. To find the American Dream

  15. George Washington, 1795Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828)

  16. “Snap the Whip” 1872 Winslow Homer

  17. “Home Sweet Home1873WinslowHomer

  18. Prisoners From the Front • 1866

  19. George Catlin (1796-1872)Catlin was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Even in his early years, Indians had a strong influence on Catlin's life because his mother had once been captured by them.

  20. George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879)Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845

  21. George Caleb Bingham

  22. Robert Henri, 1913Ashcan SchoolAmerican Realism“artists work should be a social force that creates a stir in the world".

  23. John Sloan 1915

  24. Dorothea Lange(1895-1965)Migrant Mother The Great Depression 1930

  25. Edward Hopper 1943

  26. Edward Hopper Nighthawks, 1942

  27. Jackson Pollack, 1950’s

  28. Willem de KooningAmericanRotterdam 1904 - 1997 New YorkTwo Women1952

  29. James AponovichNashua, NH 2002

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