The American Modernist Artist

With the invention of the camera came the desire for realism. The world was changing and it was happening fast. Fast enough that people were being over looked as business and the need for natural materials lead the way. Through war in France came realism and it caused discomfort at the sight of unpleasant looking locals and grim topics, such as death. Artists were really on top of their game with the material added in their paintings that represented serious political issues and issues with the church. If I had not read about the paintings I would not have looked at them in a more serious light. I would have continued to believe these were relaxed beautiful paintings of people in the 1800's. Even the painting of Rue Transnonain by Honoré was

The 1920s were a time of great prosperity and revitalization. This decade gave way to many great social milestones for every class of people. From the limits for immigration to the boom of the auto industry American society was drastically altered. Issues such as foreign immigration,prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan ,evolution, women’s roles, and race were the focus of the populus and drove politics within the nation. Art played a major role in how the black community expressed their new found sense of culture. Painting has always been a way for someone to portrait their ideas.

African Americans always had a great influence in the United States throughout time from the beginning of slavery. African Americans, since the start of slavery, always expressed themselves artistically, where it was through music or art. From making patchwork quilts, slaves used their artistic expression to help conduct the Underground Railroad and escape slavery. To be defined as “illiterate savages” African Americas proved many wrong with their exceptional skills presented in many different styles of artwork. From slavery throughout the 19th century, there were a great number of African Americans whom contributed to the United States through artistic expression, with creating artwork that would either be judged or discredited. For example, Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Mary Edmonia Lewis, and Henry Ossawa Tanner were all 19th century African American artists who each faced their own individual challenges to achieve acclaim as artists.

It is believable that John Vanderlyn, in his painting Landing of Columbus, was trying to portray the success of Columbus and his crew. Columbus heroic stance and elegant expression are made all the more impressive in comparison to the native people who witness the event. The Native Americans are naked, fearful or subservient, bowing down before the explorer in awe and reverence. The symbols of empire are shown in the heroic explorer with his Christian crosses and steel swords symbolizing the significance in the power of civilization. In 1836 of June, Congress had commissioned John Vanderlyn to paint the Landing of Columbus. About eleven years later the painting was

Picasso is an abstract artist, and therefore is thought of as “unskilled,” by the way he accentuates parts of the human figure. Picasso’s art had the most impact on the twentieth century. Even though he suggests going against what he had learned academically, it is important to know that he had started at a very young age. His father was a drawing teacher and a conservator at a small museum. Soon after his father became a professor at the art academy in Barcelona, the young Picasso completed the entrance examinations and was accepted to the school’s upper-level program. Picasso went to Paris determined to work through the avant-gardes’ techniques and subjects to better understand such art.

African American class is one of my favorite classes. I have learned some new things about the African American art history during the 20th century. Also, I have known some of the important artist, and being able to discover their lives. However, one of those artists was George Washington Carver, who was a American botanist and inventor. He was a Muslim scientist. He was born into slavery in Missouri in 1864. He has a wild reputation because he had changed the way that poor family lives on. In addition, Carver had made some recherché about promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. He also had developed many products that made from peanuts, and that were useful for the house and farm, including cosmetics,

Written language can change and can be forgotten but art will always stay constant, you can destroy people and their way of life but if art is preserved the way they lived their lives it will tell their story. Missing or stolen art has had a big impact on the world of art. There are many types of art that have been stolen; paintings, sculptures, jewelry, photography, and written artifacts. There are many questions on whether art is important to the preservation to a culture such as;

The 1920s is recognized as a time of citizen imbalance, from the various industrialization, the Prohibition Era, and the fight for women’s rights. It was essentially rural versus urban as America was divided into two categories, Fundamentalists, and Modernists. Modernists, who lived mainly in cities, would strive for a future in knowledge and being technologically advanced. As for the Fundamentalists, they based themselves off old ideals, and considered any other race allied with the more “superior” race to be degrading. More often than not, each association would either approve a supremacy, or fight to discontinue it.

John Trumbull was an american neoclassical painter. His canvases of significant scenes in the American Revolution frame an one of a kind record of the contention's occasions and members.

Saul Bass was a groundbreaking graphic designer. He has designed a great number of logos, but is most well known for his work in the film industry. The 1950s was known as a time of conformity, but soon the modernist movement spread and Bass was a part of it. He wanted to be different, and that is exactly what he accomplished through his works. He used them as a way to show the mood of a film, and what is yet to come. He brought a new way of showing the emotion of a film through title sequences and posters, a legacy that is still prevalent in the movie industry today.

Walton Ford is an American contemporary artist who aspires Audubon and other Naturalists in the style of the paintings. Walton Ford creates paintings that are considered a new and modern style. The paintings created represent more than an animal in a habitat. Ford creates paintings that makes the viewer wonder if the painting is cheerful and natural, or grotesque and disturbing. By putting a twist on a traditional style, Ford intrigues the viewers and creates a revolutionary change in how people view modern and traditional art.

As he was uttering all this, I wrote it all down, trying to make it fit into the significance behind the discovery of his signature style. He went on to tell me big part of the story follows the departure from his parents’ side. He said he went on to travel the globe, he studied art in Paris, found the love of his life. He commented that the sheer joy of just living life the way he wanted to steer it, allowed him to collect a bundle of memories and that it all has inspired his art. Life itself is a ceaseless source of inspiration and it morphed into his primary artistic influence: “I didn’t just sit one day and said ‘I’m going to have my own distinguished style.’ My art depicts aspects that are part of our normality—we just aren’t aware of

Paul Rand was well-known to be making use of a wide variety of procedures or methods such as collage, typography, photography, and painting. He combined the elements to create visually distinctive modern image from design for magazine cover to a poster or even corporate logos. At Esquire and Apparel Arts Rand persistently worked as an art director for four years. During the early forties he created astounding covers for a magazine named Direction where he worked on Apparel Arts covers using

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor and is known as the creator of the mobile a sculpture that is in constant motion, made with balanced or hanging shapes that move to the air currents around its environment. Alexander was born in 1898, in the city of brotherly love Philadelphia, to a family full of artists in which his father and his grandfather were sculptors. In 1919 Calder graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology with a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering. Carefree and down to earth, Alexander was among some of the few visual artists who branded himself in 1920s Paris, France.

In 1928 the Congrès International d 'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) was formed in order to unify and define certain manifestos of how modernism would be translated to architecture, urbanism, and habitat. CIAM sought to organize the ideas of modern architecture and formalize these thoughts to shape political, economic, and ecological theories. A series of conferences was held with leading architects, theorists, and planners to create and define a certain aesthetic and philosophy for architectural and urbanistic ideals.