The title of the painting I chose to analyze is The City from Greenwich Village by John Sloan. This painting originated from the United States of America in 1922. Currently, the painting is at an exhibit in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. The type of media is oil on canvas. The City from Greenwich Village effectively displayed the city of New York in the early 1920s in a way that captivates its audience. In The City from Greenwich Village, Sloan captured the heart of the city and how it is constant movement in the early twentieth century.
John French Sloan was a twentieth-century painter raised in Pennsylvania. Sloan moved to New York with his wife and continued his work as an artist. Here, Sloan was captivated and mesmerized by the “depicting city life and city scenes.” Before long, Sloan became a well-known artist. He
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The importance of The City of Greenwich Village was to halt and capture the exquisiteness of the city. There were many instances in which Sloan displayed the unceasing motion of the city, from the moving train to the stirring automobiles. Additionally, the constant glow that illuminates the streets contributes in conveying the illusion of the city being in continual movement. I believe that Sloan was attempting to freeze this moment in time. In New York City, particularly in the 1920s, everything was happening at a very fast pace. By portraying this idea in his work, I believe that Sloan was trying to remind his audience to pause and take in the beauty of New York. He primarily did this by capturing the unique buildings that contain two vanishing points, as well as the majestic radiating city illuminating in the left corner. Sloan emphasized movement to remind his viewers that humans are always in constant motion. Once in a while, it is important to take in your environment and appreciate your
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, located in the Art Institute of Chicago, is one of the most recognizable paintings of the 19th century, a painting made by Frenchman Georges Seurat. Finished in 1886, it has gained much of its recognition over the time of its completion; the pop culture of today has played a pivotal role into the popularity of it. An example of that is being apart in one of the most recognizable scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where one of the main characters is solely staring at the painting until he can’t even recognize the artwork. This painting also gets much attention because it was an early example of the style of pointillism, at the time; pointillism was becoming a new way of expressing one self with the new technique. It also brought upon about the way we saw paintings, and what we gained from the artwork as whole. In all this painting has become an icon in the art scene, due to the technique it used, and how much of an impact it has had in today culture.
... who settled on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where we could see packs of books telling the stories and experiences of past immigrants. I felt the rush and the excitement that characterize the city, but I also couldn’t get enough of the multiple cultures in New York. One would spend days and weeks in the “City that Never Sleeps” but still, it would take many more to truly experience every aspect of it or understand how the diverse ethnicities were able to survive and succeed there.
The Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic society. Its name originated to identify a group of New York City based landscape painters that emerged in about 1850 under the influence of Thomas Cole. Because of the inspiration exerted by his work, Cole is usually
An outstanding example of such “simple pleasures” enjoyed by these East Siders is seen in Jerome’s beautifully rendered oil painting Street Carousel, 1906 [fig. 68], a theme Myers depicted in watercolor as early as 1903 and echoed in an oil pastel that must also date to circa 1906 as that pastel and the oil painting are nearly identical. The lighter palette used imparts a lyrical charm to the streetscape, transforming the depressed neighborhood into a magical place. Brick facades reflect a pearly, un-modulated light throughout where shadows virtually disappear. Laundry hanging from rooftop wash lines seems at first glance to be puffy clouds.
Hopper is emphasising within the painting that the cinema is an extravagant place where our mental state is transformed for the duration of the film and takes the viewers mind away from the outside world and in doing so revealing the more realistic take on the modern American city. In regard to the modern American city, Henry Luce created the term American Century as the move from rural to urban environments became popular. This was an important transformation as it changed the society people were living in (city vs country). The key shift from the rural area is a knowledgeable community compared to the city which creates fluidity and the chance to recreate yourself. There was a huge influx of people into American cities which allows a sense of freedom, the past can more easily be hidden.