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American Art & Literature

American Art & Literature. From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. The American Colonies and the Emerging Nation. Portraiture Landscapes Sculptures. In Europe this is the Period of REALISM And the Colonials who are EUROPEANS Mimic that art.

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American Art & Literature

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  1. American Art & Literature From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

  2. The American Colonies and the Emerging Nation • Portraiture • Landscapes • Sculptures In Europe this is the Period of REALISM And the Colonials who are EUROPEANS Mimic that art

  3. John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)Watson and the Shark (1778)

  4. John Singleton CopleyMargaret Kemble Gage(1771)Mrs. Daniel Rogers (Elizabeth Gorham Rogers) (1762)

  5. John Singleton CopleyThe Death of Major Peirson 6 January 1781 (1783)

  6. Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)The Artist in his Museum, 1822Portrait of George Washington, 1782

  7. Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)Portrait of George Washington (1796) Mrs. Perez Morton (1802)

  8. Early Nineteenth-Century Art • The Hudson River School and the Lure of the West European artists turn away from realism 1800-1840 in reaction against Industrialism, almost constant war and the growing scientific attempt to rationally quantify EVERYTHING. The Romantics emphasize FEELINGS!! This same process happens in America – but with AMERICAN themes and subjects.

  9. The Hudson River School: 1820s-1870s

  10. The Hudson River School • These artists captured the undiluted power of nature • Paint the nation’s most spectacular and undeveloped areas [the new Garden of Eden]. • Nature was the best source of wisdom & fulfillment. • They created visual embodiments of the ideals of the Transcendentalists. * painting is the vehicle through which the universal mind could reach the mind of mankind. * art is the agent of moral & spiritual transformation.

  11. Characteristics of the Hudson River School “A new art for a new land.” Paint grand, scenic vistas. Humans are an insignificant [even non-existent] part of the picture. Experiment with affects of light on water and sky. Symbol of the school --> a broken tree stump

  12. Issues/Themes Addressed by the Antebellum Artists • Transcendentalist thinking. • Westward expansion. • American nationalism --> What is America? * creation of a national mythology • Racism and Native Americans. • Concern for political extremism. • The price paid for progress and the advances of civilization.

  13. In Nature’s WonderlandThomas Doughty, 1835

  14. Niagara – Frederic Church, 1857

  15. View of the Catskills, Early AutumnThomas Cole, 1837

  16. The Course of Empire: The Savage StateThomas Cole, 1834

  17. The Course of Empire: The Arcadian or The Pastoral State - Thomas Cole, 1836

  18. Kindred Spirits – Asher Durand, 1849

  19. Watercolors by John Audubon Stanley Hawk Barred Owl

  20. The Luminists

  21. The Constitution in Boston HarborFitz Hugh Lane, 1848-49

  22. Fur Trappers Descending the MissouriGeorge Caleb Bingham, 1845

  23. The Classical Styles of Greece & Rome

  24. Neo-Classical Architecture: U. S. Customs House, 1836

  25. Jefferson Rotunda (Univ. of VA), 1819-26

  26. The Capitol Rotunda

  27. Horatio Greenough (1805-1852)George Washington, 1840Rescue, 1853

  28. Patriotic Art

  29. The Landing of the PilgrimsUnknown Artist, 1830s

  30. Washington Crossing the DelawareEmmanuel Gottlieb Leutze,1851

  31. George Washington Horatio Greenough, 1841

  32. Our Banner in the Sky - Frederic Church, 1861

  33. The "Frontier" Artists

  34. Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees - Charles Bird King, 1821 1. The “Noble Savage” Image

  35. George Catlin (1796-1872)From Indian Gallery, 1832

  36. Mato-Tope – Karl Bodmer, 1830s 3. The “Demonic” Indian

  37. Osage Scalp Dance – John Mix Stanley, 1845

  38. Last of the Race – Tompkins Matteson, 1847 4. The “Doomed” Indian

  39. Dying Indian Chief Contemplating the Progress of Civilization – Thomas Crawford, 1857

  40. Impressionism and the Gilded Age 1880-1900

  41. Childe Hassam (1859-1935)Union Square in Spring, 1896 The South Ledges, Appledore, 1913

  42. Winslow Homer (1836-1910)A Fair Wind, 1876The Gulf Stream, 1899

  43. The Ashcan School of Artists In Europe a short revival in realism is Also reflected in Amerca’s American Realism

  44. Conservative in style, they were revolutionary in content. • Departure from the staid portraitures and genteel landscapes of the late 19c. • The intent of the artists was not social commentary.

  45. Characteristics of the Ashcan School 1.Gritty, urban scenes: - find beauty in the drab and ugly aspects of life.

  46. “Eviction” - Everett Shinn, 1904

  47. “Cliff Dwellers” – George Bellows, 1908

  48. “A Woman’s Work” John Sloan, 1912

  49. Characteristics of the Ashcan School 2.Portrayal of urban vitality.

  50. “Madison Square” Maurice Prendergast, 1901

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