Grant Wood I recently took a trip to the Jocelyn Art Museum. There they had many great painting in the permanent art collection. One that caught my eye, which I had seen many times before, but never knew any thing about, was a painting called Stone City, Iowa , which was created by Grant Wood in 1930. This painting is oil on wood panel and is 30 ¼ X 40 inches. Grant Wood is a famous philosopher who was born in February in the year 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa. Wood was born to Quaker parents on a
Florida Scene is an oil on canvas painting of the beautiful landscape of Florida. The creator who painted Florida Scene in 1878 is an artist by the name of Thomas Moran. The painting is currently on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The artist was greatly influenced by the beauty of Nature. It is a depiction of southern landscape in America. It has irregular shapes and shows the ocean, vegetation, and sky in a luscious landscape.
pushed the American people to a state of conformity and fear of nonconformity that permeated the culture. Louis Bouché’s Gallery K represents the American ideal of conformity through the fashion and interaction of the people within the scene. By situating this work in the style of an American scene oil painting, the imagery and content of the art is further normalized and idealized as the typical American experiences that people strived for in the forties. The focus of the painting is on the people
An earlier painting created by Edward Hopper was named Automat , which was first displayed on 14th February 1927 which depicts a singular woman staring into a cup in an Automat at night. The image is uncertain, it is ambiguous as to why the woman is there and what her mood is, however the emphasis is clearly on the well-dressed woman with her legs being the lightest spot within the room in a dark canvas. The modern American city is displayed as dark and dismal in the painting with the reflection
Lily Martin Spencer was a female American genre painter in antebellum period, a time period in the United States before the civil war and after the War of 1812. This paper is on the analysis of Conversation Piece, an oil painting by Lilly Martin Spencer in 1851-52. The medium of the piece is oil on canvas and is now displayed in Gallery 758 of Metropolitan Museum of Art. Conversation Piece illustrates the sentimental culture in the United States by depicting the image of a middle-class domestic life
The famous painting, Nighthawks was painted in 1942 by Edward Hooper, and inspired by a diner located on a wedge shaped corner in Hooper’s old New York neighborhood. Though the diner that inspired Nighthawks has since been destroyed, the image with its nonexistence narrative and detailed composition, has an everlasting quality. The painting portrays four people sitting in a diner late at night. Do the four people know each other? Or have the come to the diner to take refuge in each other’s silent
Oxbow: A Survey of Nature Paintings Jackson Pollock said “It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement” (Jackson Pollock Biography). When looking at the paintings Autumn Rhythm: Number 30 by Jackson Pollock and Thomas Cole’s View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm more commonly known as The Oxbow one would be quick to assume that the two paintings have nothing in common
A painting in Tampa Museum of Art that interests me is Outpost Raid: Champagne Sector by Horace Pippin. This piece was created in 1931, three years after Horace Pippin began to explore paint. It was original located at West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States and is currently located at American Folk Art Museum. Outpost Raid: Champagne Sector was oil on fabric and its dimensions were 18 x 21". During the World War I, Horace Pippin served in an all-black infantry unit called Fifteenth Regiment of
Washington Crossing the Delaware is a painting that depicts George Washington and his men crossing the Delaware River on Christmas morning, 1776. It was illustrated by Emanuel Leutze, a German-American artist who is best known for his adaptations of history on canvas. This version of Washington Crossing the Delaware in 1851 was actually his second rendition of it due to the first version being damaged in a fire. This painting currently resides at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where
Noah’s Ark is an oil on Masonite painting done by Aaron Douglas in 1927. The 48 by 36 inch painting is currently on display at The Carl Van Techten Gallery of Fine Arts at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The representational portrait painting shows an outdoors scene. There is a source of light coming from the top right corner. Following down the painting, there is a man at the front of a large boat, pointing to the left. Behind him, another man is holding some items. In the background, there
chose is named David Paul Bradley who is a Minnesota Chippewa American. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, as well as University of Arizona and College of Santa Fe. The title of the work is “South Dakota” and this piece was painted in 1980. The medium used to make this piece was acrylic paints on a canvas. The subject matter of this piece is very detailed. The first thing your eye is drawn to is the Native American man looking at the calendar on the wall and his dog that
million dollars for the World War II? Norman Rockwell was an excellent illustrator that was born in American and stayed in The United States to paint. American illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was a consequential contributor to American illustrating in the early and mid 1900s. Some of his important works are over 320+ illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post, and many persuading paintings including “Freedom of Speech” and “The Problem We All Live With.” As stated before, Norman Rockwell
maroon room; with dozens of paintings among the walls that were featured in the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. While observing the historical pieces in the room, one painting stood out from all the others in the room. Hanging eight feet by six feet six inches was Thomas Eakins most famous painting: Portrait of Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic). The large scaled painting depicts a vivid scene of Dr. Gross himself teaching a team of five doctorate
Policeman by Jean-Michel Basquiat deserves to be included into the 250 because of it’s blatant message of the oppression of blacks in America by a structure that parallels Jim Crow. The painting is said to show the irony of an African American enforcing the rules that are generally meant to enslave them. The painting was made right at the start of the drug and crime epidemic in New York in the 1980’s, a turbulent time for many. Basquiat’s place in Art History is lamented by his success as a sociopolitical
Poe and artists like Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole began writing and painting in a new style distinct from the style of European writers and artists. By writing about uniquely American experiences, painting uniquely American scenes, and incorporating the emerging ideas of transcendentalism and the Hudson River School, the writers and artists of the American Renaissance
During the American Revolution, Washington and his men were experiencing a series of defeat. In order to bring about great pride and patriotism of an American, they sought to plan a sneak attack on the opposite force. On December 25, Washington and 5,400 troops began crossing the Delaware River to the Hessian stronghold. At this point in time, the Hessians were celebrating Christmas; this was a perfect time for an attack. When Washington and his men arrived, they started attacking the unsuspected
evolution of the landscape painting and how different movements in art effect what is included and the landscape, along with, how the landscape is depicted. Landscape paintings are the presentment of the natural world in art. The emergence of landscape painting began because artists started to look at painting and subject matter with a new light. The traditional landscape painting emerged in the 17th century in Italy. Before then, landscape were primarily
“The St. Johns River Entering the Atlantic Ocean” painted by Hermann Herzog stands in American Art as the most ascetically illustrative picture inspired in the Florida coastline. Although, this German American artist settled in Pennsylvania, he painted primarily landscapes inspired in the areas he visited. He traveled and painted throughout Florida, Maine, California and the Northeast side of the country coast. Hermann Ottomar Herzog was a prominent artist born in Bremen, Germany in 1832.He was
Throughout the course of history, art has changed in vast number of ways. Dating back to the Pre-Colombian era of art, you are able to find sculptors, mounds and other artwork on Native American culture. Native Americans believed in pantheism which is the worship of nature. Native Americans were seen as savages because they lived in nature, they worshipped nature, wore off clothing that didn’t cover their bodies fully. They performed ceremonies that have seemed peculiar to explorers during the exploration
Visions of America The importance of American landscape painting in the nineteenth century extended far beyond the borders of the art world. The nineteenth century in America was a paradoxical time in which great nationalism and “enormous self-confidence and optimism” merged with growing disunity (Wilmerding 54), and the glow of “progress” was inextricably tied to the destruction of the majestic landscape that was a source of American identity and pride. Landscape painters at this time were