REVIEW: AMERICAN ART
1565,1607 - 1763: SETTLEMENT AND COLONIAL
AMERICA
Painting was unimportant; pioneers too busy; handicrafts
dominated.
1763 - 1783: REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
1781
- 1789: GOVERNMENT UNDER THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
1789 -
1824: THE NEW NATION
American artists greatly influenced by
Europe. Portrait painting and
pictures of historical events dominated - West,
Copley, Peale, GILBERT
STUART, Trumbull.
1825 - 1849: AGE OF
JACKSON
1849 - 1877: SECTIONALISM, CIVIL WAR,
RECONSTRUCTION
Painters were attracted by the scenery along the
Hudson River in the
Catskills. These painters were called the "Hudson River
School" - Cole,
Durand, Doughty. Other painters were attracted by the West -
Bingham and
GEORGE CATLIN (Indian life).
During the Civil War American
artists were again greatly influenced
by Europe. Mary Cassatt painted in the
French impressionist style
1877 - 1901: BIG BUSINESS, INDUSTRY,
LABOR, FARMERS, REFORM
Winslow Homer painted pictures showing man
against nature,
particularly the sea.
1901 - 1913:
PROGRESSIVE ERA
1913 - 1921: WILSON AND WORLD WAR
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In 1908 a group of American artists promoted paintings that
reflected
modern life. Critics called this group the "Ashcan
School."
1921 - 1939: BOOM AND BUST AND A NEW
DEAL
Artists began to take themes from specific regions of the
U.S. Grant
Wood - "American Gothic"
Abstract expressionism was the
most significant movement in modern
American painting. Jackson Pollock was an
"action painter."
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1939 - 1945: WORLD WAR II
1945 - 1989+: COLD
WAR AND AFTER
Andrew Wyeth - most popular painter of the
mid-1900's - painted in
the realistic tradition.
Pop Art began in the
late 1950's. They emphasized common objects. Andy Warhol is the dominant painter
in this style.
Minimal Art developed in the U.S. in the 1960's. These
artists
believed that art should be divorced from emotion, it should be a
composition of color, form, and shape.