History of Modern Art Final

Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton

Grant Wood

Grant Wood

Grant Wood

Grant Wood

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky

Arshile Gorky

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko

Robert Raushenberg

Robert Raushenberg

Robert Raushenberg

Robert Raushenberg

Robert Raushenberg

• Robert Henri
• George Bellows
• - Urban city life paintings submitted into National Academy Design were rejected.
• - Displayed in galleries and viewed as trash, ugly and unpleasant.
• -Avant-Garde of modernism.

• -European art mixed with American Art
• -Paintings hanging side by side comparing American art to European art reinforced the general American audience's negative attitude toward "foreigners" (Europeans) as immigration was very prevalent during this time.
• -European art was mocked. Americans didn't understand their art so they didn't like it.

Promoted photography as an accepted form of fine art with the Little Gallery of Photo Secession (291 5th Ave.)

• -Hired out of work artist during the depression to paint murals in government sponsored buildings (Libraries, train stations, etc.) in order to keep American art alive.
• -Created a collaboration of art between artists who've never met before.
• -Artists encouraged each other while developing a sense of community for artists and shared ideas together.

• Started by Lillie Bliss.
• -Art collector who was frustrated with lack of modern art in American museums.
• -Exhibited modern art in museums, but no one liked it. No audience for it.
• -Opens her own modern art gallery
• -Appreciation of modern art grows when modern art museums open. Avant-garde painters are encouraged.

- Group of abstract expressionists.

• -An institution for experimental avant-garde art for a new generation of young artists.
• -A place for nontraditional, revolutionary behavior and attitude about art.

• -Art movement that expressed the rural lifestyle of America.
• -Murals and paintings showed a prosperous America.
• -Was an escapism from a depressing time in America.

• -Artwork that is spontaneously painted by splashing, smearing, or dripping onto the canvas that represents the action of painting itself.
• -Jackson Pollock

• -Solid colors painted largely across the canvas
• -Mark Rothko

• -A new generation of artists' response to a new age of popular culture.
• -Immediately well received because it's subjects were easily recognizable as American public liked realism. Objects they can identify with.