Etude Golden Arrow by Edward Judd
From the Modern Beauty? The Aesthetics of Perceptual Simultaneity exhibition of the Florida International University Frost Museum, I have chosen to study the painting Etude Golden Arrow II (translated “Study Golden Arrow II,” pictured above) by French-Canadian artist Edward Judd. Judd painted this piece (20 x 25.5 inches) in his birth country of France circa 1931 under the style known as Synchromism. The painting is a depiction of a train known as Golden Arrow speeding along the tracks, past signaling lights, and past the perspective of the viewer. The setting of the composition is a French train track beneath an early morning sky.
Synchromism was the first American Avant Garde artistic movement started in early 20th century Paris by two expatriated artists from the United States, Morgan Russell of New York (1888-1953) & Stanton MacDonald-Wright of Virginia (1890-1973). Artists of the time were always working on new and inventive ways to show the importance of the movement. The two young artists met in Paris and established this movement on the influences of Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, and the Post Impressionists movement, which is the idea of color superseding the importance of the subject. They were able to evolve these post-impressionist ideals by implementing the use of Musical Theory, which is a style in which music and sounds would define certain hues and shades in their painting to represent movement, emotion, and expression. Music can be broken down into elements like rhythm, form, and structure while the same can be done with art, and this style bridges the gap between the two disciplines. Russell and MacDonald-Wright incorporated Musical Theory into their artworks in a simi...
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...nd beam effect from the composition with the lighter hues in order to create the visual experience from frozen light in the piece.
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... after nine at night, but in those days [we] ... did not think of our day in terms of hours. We liked our work, we were proud to do it well, and I am afraid that we were very, very happy.” The 1930s were a time of struggle and sadness. However, American citizens continued to work and search for the happiness they once knew. Although the Great Depression stretched through the 1930s, putting a damper on the economy and liveliness of the nation, the decade cannot be solely defined by it. Art and photos illustrate the decade’s sentiments, while acts of society and architecture reveal much more regarding a common citizen's lifestyle. A tragic photo, a vast-spread psychological struggle, and a famous building, are all examples of artifacts taken from the 1930s that have changed, they way we perceive our country, the American way of living, and America’s skyline forever.
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...nings behind them and that’s what this painting renders. The modern time painting is another interesting outlook of death transcending from bright colors to darkness, exceedingly imaginative
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