The Era Of The State Of Wyoming

William H. Johnson was a successful painter who was born on March 18, 1901 in Florence, South Carolina. Johnson began exploring his level of creativity as a child, and it only amplified from there because he discovered that he wanted to be an artist. After making this discovery he attended the National Academy of Design in New York which is where he met his mentor Charles Webster Hawthorne who had a strong influential impact on Johnson. Once Johnson graduated he moved to Paris where he was exposed to different artists, various artistic abilities, and evolutionary creations. Throughout Johnson’s time in Paris he grew as an artist, and adapted a “folk” style where he used lively colors and flat figures. Johnson used the “folk” style to express the experience of most African-Americans during the years of the 1930s and 1940s.

Though, throughout this time period, “the great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern art,” it was an essential art movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and the “CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years,” creating a meaningful impact on the outcome of the Cold War (Saunders). “Abstract Expressionism stood for, above all else,

Jackson Pollock was not known for painting images, that's because he didn't use a brush He believed the brush would interfere with the dripping of the paint. Instead Jackson used a stick to pour paint onto the canvas. He would change the color, type of paint, and the thickness of the paint as the work progressed. Therefore, the painting would reflect the movements of his arm and body as he applied the paint. The activity of the painting would become part of the painting itself. That style of painting is called action painting. Jackson Pollock was the first "all-over" action painted just like Cernuschi stated on page 67 in his book Meaning and Significance, "He painted no image, just action." It looked like Pollock almost imitated a dance. Pollock dripped paint all over the canvas, but always had total control of where the splash of paint would be. That is how he got his nickname "Jack the

Laramie, Wyoming is known as a mostly conservative, republican party majority, which is why there were no hate crime laws that had to deal with sexual orientation or gender identity. Republicans typically were Christians meaning they were against homosexuality and believed it was very wrong. The Laramie officials did not pass any law for about ten years, which showed the Laramie community that their own government did not approve of homosexuals. The government in Laramie is a major influence on a citizen’s political opinion and how they feel on certain topics like homosexuality. If the government does not show approval, how will the citizens of Laramie gain a major acceptance towards homosexuals? Even the governor of Wyoming did not

The intersection of social movements and Art is one that can be observed throughout the civil right movements of America in the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The sixties in America saw a substantial cultural and social change through activism against the Vietnam war, women’s right and against the segregation of the African - American communities. Art became a prominent method of activism to advocate the civil rights movement. It was a way to express self-identity as well as the struggle that people went through and by means of visual imagery a way to show political ideals and forms of resistance. To examine how a specific movement can have a profound effects on the visual art, this essay will focus on the black art movement of the 1960s and

Paul Klee and his works are a direct representation of 20th century art. Klee’s roots in Futurism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Expressionism combined with his natural gift for drawing make him truly one of the most unique abstract artists of his time. Most artists of the time were trying to break away from traditional concrete artwork, however few succeeded with such natural beauty and talent like the simplicity of Klee’s paintings. Klee’s connection to 20th century art can be summed up in one quote by the famous artist: “art does not represent the visible; rather it renders visible (the

Most pieces of art have a deeper meaning than what is simply expressed on the surface. Through emotions, symbols, and motifs, an artist can portray a unique story; however, despite the use of creative symbols, distinct stories can show a similar theme. Two such examples are the short film Destino by Salvador Dali and Walt Disney and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which share the common theme of “the struggle of obtaining dreams”. Based on what is shown in these works of art, it is a challenge to attain dreams.

Since the late 1960's, Jack White's mixed media abstract work, defined as “abstract impressionism”, has been inspired by African art forms and symbolism. The works included in the Ancestral Image exhibition are outside the boundaries of traditional painting or sculpture. They contain elements of the spiritual, the artistic, and the utilitarian that define African art. Reflecting on his work, White states, "Like most human beings I am curious about my ancestors; as a black American, I can know only that they came from Africa. Art gives me the power to explore the lives of those ancestors and expose audiences, minority and mainstream, to my discoveries."

When you hear the word “war” you think of a battlefield overseas. In your head, you see guns being fired and bombs blowing up but you don’t see the small towns of Wyoming. Heroin is becoming one of the deadliest and fastest growing drugs on the street today. We the people of Wyoming would never of thought that we would have a drug problem such as heroin but we do. It has claimed the lives of many people every day by just trying it once or the drug taking their life this includes one of my close friends Billy. This drug has hit close to home for me in a few different ways. You don 't just get into heroin for no reason. Other drugs like prescription painkillers lead up to it and the choices that you make. I have watched heroin take the lives of many people. A few of made it out, a few are still living in that world and a couple have died from it. All over America including Wyoming heroin related deaths have increased from just a few a year to a lot more. Study show that 45% of heroin addicted people start off with prescription drugs such as oxytocin. If these people don 't want to get help for it through rehab and treatment it ultimately leads to death. I have watched a friend lose everything but then one day she woke up and got treatment for her heroin addiction. I watched my husband fight his addiction to prescription pain medicine. He did ultimately get help and kick the habit with myself by his side supporting him and never giving up. Some aren 't as lucky as they were.

A glance into Wyoming history takes researchers back to the year 1792. According to historian Charles Coutant there is a map in the archives in Paris, France, which contains a map drawn up by Jesuits. The map from what Coutant’s indicates is a topographically correct map of the Black Hills and Black Horn Mountains, which is part of today’s state of Wyoming. It is not necessary with this thesis to go quite this far back into Wyoming history to have an understanding of the birth of the Territory and the eventual conception of the state. The first mention of cattle in the region was those that came through with those traveling the Oregon Trail with settlers. The United States Army during the mid-1800’s had small herds but these were mostly driven in to feed soldiers and Indian villages in the near vicinity. The focus of this thesis is the history that prefaces the cattle barons in Wyoming. Then Ex-Governor Hale barred prior to the establishment of the Wyoming Territory cattle raising in the region for two reasons according to a report to the Secretary of Interior. These reasons were; “it was believed by many stockmen that whose herds grazed on the plains south and southwest of Wyoming that the severe storms occurring here (Wyoming) during the winter and spring would prevent the grazing of cattle in safety the year round in the region. Secondly, the occupancy of a large part of the Territory by hostile Indians at that time also deterred stock-raisers from bringing in their herds”. These reasons in fact deterred stock growers from raising cattle

The crackling and popping of the large redwood finally falling was a sweet noise to my grandpa Ray’s tired arms. He stood back and watched with satisfaction as the tree began to fall away from him, but as it fell the large tree hit the branch of another tree and instead of knocking over the other tree or breaking the branch, this large tree was heading straight for him. He saw this and stepped back to move out of the way and fell over a stump. He cried out in agony as the log fell onto his leg. The happenings in the U.S. and Wyoming economy in the 90s and the conditions my grandmother, Cindy Pittsley, faced caused her to move from Dubois to a few different places before she settled in Glenrock and led her to where she is today.

The government invested in the railroad because they knew they would make a large profit. "The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 provided for land grants to the two companies-- ten sections of public land for each mile of track laid-- and first mortgage loans in the form of government bonds (T.A. Larson p.37)." The railroad knew they would make their money back, plus interest. The railroad would also make money selling the land.

The primary focus of this section is to explain the “act of painting.” Flack begins her book with notes on the creative process and what it means to be an artist. Everything from the perception of color to confronting a blank canvas is addressed in this section. Audrey Flack briefly touches on the spiritual

The dominant figure that steered the course of the Abstract Expressionist movement was the infamous painter Jackson Pollock. He was born Paul Jackson Pollock in Cody, Wyoming on January 28, 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son and grew up in Arizona and California after his family left him when he was a little over one year old. Pollock's artistic journey began at the Manual Arts School in Los Angeles, California where he joined two of his brothers. From there, he went on to New York to attend the Art Students' League after being convinced by one of his brothers whom also attended the school.

Taking following extreme cases of abstraction, when speaking of Pollock’s work such as his ”Autumn Rhythm” (1950), we realize how the visual formed is fully based on science and gravity that permits the dripping and pouring of the paint on the horizontal canvas. But, by walking around/on the canvas we can argue Greenberg’s analysis and suppose that the painter possibly connects with it, he gets drowned in the act and merges inside the painting while mechanically pouring paint on the canvas. This means that even though the painter tries to focus on the flatness of the painting rather than the content and is physically detached from the canvas, this focus cannot erase an emotional