PHOTOGRAPHY, REALISM, ABSTRACTION, SOCIAL REALISM AND GUESTS AMERICAN ART
PHOTOGRAPHY Interpretation of everyday life of humanity Relationships, poverty, tragedy, joy, sympathy, love, entire range of human emotion Travel, 2 World Wars and emergence of photography based publications influenced medium
ALFRED STIEGLITZ Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907, photograph, 33.5cm x 26.4cm, (J. Paul Getty Museum)
DOROTHEA LANGE Dorothea Lange, Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, 1938 Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California Dorothea Lange (American, 1895– 1965) Dorothea Lange Gelatin silver print, 11 1/8 x 8 9/16" (28.3 x 21.8 cm
EARLY AMERICAN ART Energy, ideas and discoveries in America Realists fared better with masses Distinctive American Abstract style born Realists- Ash Can School- slums/ shocking everyday scenes Abstraction grew even bigger after 1950 Americans characterized by more decorative style of art American scene painters big Social Realists formed after Great Depression- human problems
GEORGE BELLOWS George Bellows, Stag at Sharkey’s, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”. Cleveland Museum of Art
JOHN SINGER SARGENT John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882, oil on canvas, x cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
HENRY O. TANNER Henry O Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, 1893, oil on canvas, 48” x 35”, Hampton University Museum
ABSTRACTION Ash Can painters had trouble, not like Abstract artists! Stieglitz showed work in his NYC studio of Abstract painters Forged new path despite troubles
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE Georgia O’Keeffe, Red Canna, 1924, Oil on canvas
AMERICAN SCENE Individual style- message same- America is vast, beautiful, abundant, lonely, crowded and full or hardworking honest people! Regionalists- only paint their area (Grant Wood- Iowa) didn’t look to Europe for inspiration
THOMAS HART BENTON Thomas Hart Benton, Arts of the West, Tempera with oil glaze, 96 x 156 in. New Britain Museum of American Ar
GRANT WOOD Grant Wood, Stone City Iowa, 1930, Oil on wood panel, Joslyn Art Museum
EDWARD HOPPER Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, oil on canvas, 84.1 x cm / 33-1/8 x 60 inches (The Art Institut of Chicago)
SOCIAL REALISM Mass unemployment, hard times, social panic Rejection of Abstraction, dismissal of realism of western America Social Realists attacked dehumanization of industrial and urban life Art as influence to gov’t Ordinary people and injustices
JACOB LAWRENCE Jacob Lawrence, The Migration of the Negro 60 panels Series
ARCHITECTURE New ideas, new technologies, scientific breakthroughs and outpouring energy for building Abandonment of wood and brick- now used steel, reinforced concrete and glass Multiple styles at once
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House, 1936 Falling Water Guggenheim
IM PEI I.M. Pei East Building, National Gallery of Art 1978, Washington DC Louvre Pyramid
LE CORBUSIER Charles-Edouard Jenneret (Le Corbusier) Notre-Dame-du- Haut