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	American Scene Painting ( Social Realism and Regionalism )- American Scene Painting ( Social Realism and Regionalism ...
		American Scene Painting depicts scenes of typical American life and landscape painted in a naturalistic, descriptive vein during the Great Depression in the United States.
		The art produced by the American Scene artists was ambiguous and cultivated, and it drew from diverse cultures.
		American Scene Painting from the 30s and 40s: During the 1930s and 1940s Regionalist or American Scene painting was clearly the most celebrated art form across America...
	www.huntfor.com /arthistory/C20th/amscene.htm (659 words)

	American Art and Architecture - MSN Encarta
		For those Americans who did not go abroad, the main channel for introducing them to modernism was the New York gallery (opened in 1905) of the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz.
		It held, for example, the first American exhibitions devoted to Henri Matisse (1908) and Constantin Brancusi (1914), and it also showed the work of avant-garde American artists, including Arthur Dove (one of the first painters anywhere to produce pure abstracts), John Marin, the Russian-born Max Weber, and Georgia O'Keeffe, whom Stieglitz married in 1924.
		It was much concerned with expressing the dynamism of modern life, and one of Stella's favourite subjects in his paintings was Brooklyn Bridge, which he described as “a shrine containing all the efforts of the new civilization of America”.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563773_5/American_Art_and_Architecture.html (1264 words)

	Philip Guston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guston began painting at the age of 14, and in 1927 he enrolled in the Los Angeles Manual Arts High School, where both he and Jackson Pollock studied under Frederick John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky and were introduced to Modern European art, oriental philosophy, theosophy and mystic literature.
		During this period his paintings generally consisted of masses of color floating around the middle of the canvas.
		That painting is autonomous, pure and for itself, therefore we habitually analyze its ingredients and define its limits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_Guston (658 words)

	ART OF THE UNITED STATES
		His paintings show a sense of rhythm (he moved around quickly, as though he was dancing, when he painted his works of art) in his work.
		Pollock was influenced by the traditional American landscape painters, known as the Regionalist, and by Native American sand paintings.
		Paint a background, and use paper, and sculpture (found objects also) to create an assemblage box that will help people to become aware of the dangers of losing valuable animals, birds, or other natural wonders such as oceans, rivers, or vegetation.
	www.artmuseums.com /american.html (1481 words)

	Bonhams & Butterfields - Areas of Collecting - California and American Paintings & Sculpture - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The American Scene painters of the 1930s show us a country, and an art world, in the midst of dramatic change ranging from Grant Wood's famous "American Gothic" portrait of a farmer and his wife to Georgia O'Keeffe's simple still-lifes and stark desert landscapes.
		American Scene Painting Sometimes dubbed the "American Gothic" school after the famous portrait by Grant Wood (1892-1942) of a 1930s farming couple, this hard-edged style of painting focused on typical scenes of American life after World War I, and also includes works by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986).
		American Impressionism evolved in the latter 19th century, and was led by such famous painters as Mary Cassatt (1845-1926) and John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902).
	forms.butterfields.com /areas/american-californian.html (3603 words)

	ARTSEDGE: An American Scene Painter
		Paintings should be assessed for composition, technique, neatness, proportion, style and color.
		Note: The poetry created by students after the completion of their paintings helps to demonstrate the wonderful products that can result when this unit is approached as a team effort between the library media specialist, art teacher and regular classroom teacher.
		If there is time, create a painting in the style of the painter.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2050 (844 words)

	Painting, Artists, Visual Arts, Performing Arts at World Wide Arts Resources
		She visits historical monuments and places in order to paint her vivid paintings of American history.
		Andrzej is always painting, examining the expressionist, intuitive, abstract form of faces, faces, faces...
		All of the paintings were made with the ideal in mind that as close as you can examine the canvas, you should be...
	www.world-arts-resources.com /categories/Artists/Painting/index65.html (480 words)

	Thomas Kinkade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His prints and paintings are distinguished by their glowing, highlights and vibrant pastel colors.
		Rendered in an impressionist style cross-pollinated with American Scene Painting values, his works often portray bucolic, idyllic settings such as gardens, streams, stone cottages, and Main Streets.
		Some of the prints also feature light effects that are painted onto the print surface by hand by "skilled craftsmen", touches which add to the illusion of light and the resemblance to an original work of art.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Kinkade (1149 words)

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		Heartland painting cannot even be neatly located on one side or the other of the boundary that traditionally separates art and artists into two realms: the abstract and the representational.
		By painting the people and places they knew best, the Regionalists attempted to access a spectrum of proximity and remove wherein they believed particulars could be compounded and transformed into meaningful expressions reflecting an artist's life experience-especially that of home.
		In contrast, Nebraska's Dale Nichols was a painter fascinated by the myths of the American frontier and the legacy of frontier self-reliance inherited by the farmers of his native state.
	www.artsmidwest.org /heartland/illusionsofeden/essays/HallMaciejunes.html (3609 words)

	American scene
		Determined to break away from the European influence, these American artists devoted themselves to creating a movement that would not only allow for them to establish and maintain their own identities, but would also be a " true" American art style.
		American Scene painting, defined with images of examples from art history, great quotations, and links to other resources.
		The phrase American Scene refers to artists such as Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, also called Regionalists, who were active in 1930s and 1940s and who...
	stanklos.com /virtualmuseumofart/hallofartmovements/americanscene.org (1113 words)

	AroundCinci :: Oils and Grit: "American Scene" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		American Scene Painting describes the realist and anti-modernist styles of painting seen in the United States during the Depression.
		Artists emphasized that American Scene Painting was their reaction against European Modernism, and was their—and the government’s—attempt to create a uniquely American style of art.
		Miami’s exhibit will include selections from both schools of American Scene Painting, along with commentary on the work and its impact both on the political issues and the art that followed it as the country began to recover from the Depression.
	www.aroundcinci.com /gen_includes/article.asp?articleid=3340 (427 words)

	November 14, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Regionalism, an art movement from the 1930s that emphasizes local landscapes and ideals, is sometimes called American Scene painting.
		Many of his subjects were taken from American history and his most famous mural, The Tragic Prelude (1938–1940), is displayed in Topeka at the Kansas State Capitol.
		American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995).
	americanart.si.edu /1001/2002/11/111402.html (196 words)

	Painting the American Scene: Artists Assess the Federal Art Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The picture of the boy carrying a flowerpot in a classically lovely painting is the sublimation of an emotion, the suggestion of escape from the horror of living in a mean street under the arched approach of Brooklyn Bridge.
		There have never been enough pictures painted to fill the ever-increasing demand of schools and other public institutions, a demand that comes not alone from communities where the need for beauty is a crying one and not an afterthought of luxury, but equally from the great metropolitan centers.
		Through the painting done on this Project there has begun the development of a tradition which, together with the rest of American art, should lead to a school of painting that in the near future is likely to be the most vital and energetic in the world.
	www.historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5101 (1988 words)

	Thomas Hart Benton - Biography
		Back in the New York art scene during the 1920s, Benton taught at the Art Students League and began to gain acclaim for his his works that addressed the social realities of the city.
		The success of the Ashcan School (1910) demonstrated a uniquely American movement away from dependence on European art aesthetic and sought to claim a legitimacy for a strictly American art at the international level.
		At the same time, the relentless forces of American industrialization and capitalism made their way into Benton's works, and American icons of progress, railroads, city culture, and cars, begin to encroach on the Benton's idyllic pastoral scenes.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~am482_04/am_scene/bentonbio.html (767 words)

	Painting the American Scene: Artists Assess the Federal Art Project
		The picture of the boy carrying a flowerpot in a classically lovely painting is the sublimation of an emotion, the suggestion of escape from the horror of living in a mean street under the arched approach of Brooklyn Bridge.
		There have never been enough pictures painted to fill the ever-increasing demand of schools and other public institutions, a demand that comes not alone from communities where the need for beauty is a crying one and not an afterthought of luxury, but equally from the great metropolitan centers.
		Through the painting done on this Project there has begun the development of a tradition which, together with the rest of American art, should lead to a school of painting that in the near future is likely to be the most vital and energetic in the world.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5101 (1988 words)

	American art. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In addition, the characteristic American passion for objects realistically portrayed found remarkable expression in the paintings of William Harnett and John F. Peto, and earlier in the still-life works of the Peale family.
		In painting the post–Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced works of enduring worth and striking individuality.
		A chauvinistic espousal of the American scene flourished under Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood in the early 1930s, while the same decade and the 1940s saw the rise of a more socially conscious realistic art in the work of Ben Shahn, Philip Evergood, Reginald Marsh, Jacob Lawrence, Isabel Bishop, and Raphael and Moses Soyer.
	www.bartelby.com /65/am/Amer-art.html (2358 words)

	Dream and Perspective: American Scene Painting in Southern California, essay by by Susan M. Anderson
		His first major American Scene painting was Angel's Flight, 1931, which contrasts to painting of the urban poor made in other parts of the country in its spectacular use of color and because it depicted the scene without focusing on hardship or squalor.
		The painting was selected by Grace McCann Morley, director of the San Francisco Museum of Art, for inclusion in the International Water Color Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, and subsequently selected by the director of that institute, Robert Harshe, as one of thirty watercolors to represent American painting at the Texas Centennial Exhibition.
		Although the contribution of American Scene painters was overshadowed by postwar artistic developments, their accomplishments served to consolidate and expand the artistic activities of the region, thereby providing the foundation upon which postwar art was able to mature.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/3aa/3aa11.htm (6644 words)

	ArtLex on American Scene Painting
		It was first applied to the paintings of Charles Burchfield (American, 1893-1967) in the mid-1920s.
		Born in the aftermath of World War I, American Scene painting developed partly as an outgrowth of the Ashcan school, and partly as a reaction to French modernism.
		The subject is a street scene in Buffalo, NY.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/americanscene.html (337 words)

	Hofstra Museum exhibition, New York Painting
		The abundance of obdurate critics, curators and museum directors have popularized these erroneous notions - that abstract painting is no longer a viable and meaningful form, that it has outlived its purpose and usefulness, and that it has spent all of its innovative and creative contributions to plastic art.
		I feel it to be an act of self-preservation, necessity and patriotism, and for the sake of abstract painting, that I organize and curate abstract painting exhibitions.
		I believe that painting is born of an inherent human need for art and beauty and that it innately thrives on discipline, commitment and maturity.
	www.hofstra.edu /COM/Museum/museum_exhibition_nypainting.cfm (702 words)

	Hopper, Edward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thereafter, however, he gained widespread recognition as a central exponent of American Scene painting, expressing the loneliness, vacuity, and stagnation of town life.
		Paintings such as Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago, 1942) convey a mood of loneliness and desolation by their emptiness or by the presence of anonymous, non-communicating figures.
		Edward Hopper painted American landscapes and cityscapes with a disturbing truth, expressing the world around him as a chilling, alienating, and often vacuous place.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/H/Hopper/1.html (380 words)

	Crunruh Books American Scene Painting - California 1930s & 1940s
		The movement was referred to as American Scene or Regionalism, and took the form of murals, oil paintings and watercolors.
		Twenty-five of the leading painters of the period are profiles in richly illustrated individual sections, and four essays by the nation's leading authorities on this genre explore the phenomenon and place it in a national context.
		Both beautiful and absorbing, American Scene Painting is also a comprehensive, scholarly reference source, valuable for the neophyte as well as the sophisticated collector, curator, or art historian.
	crunruh.zoovy.com /product/0961052031 (204 words)

	François Gagnon on Quebec Painting 1953-56
		In his Provincetown paintings the background does have a tendency to approach the viewer, instead of receding indefinitely as in his Automatist works, and the floating objects in front tend to spread in the foreground; but the distinction between object and background is still sensible.
		Molinari saw the innovation of American painting in the same way (did he have especially Pollock in mind?), as the creation of a non-Euclidian energetic space in which colour finds new expressive dimensions.
		Unfortunately for the understanding of his development at that time, his 'Chromatic paintings' were not shown along with his drawings, and I am afraid that because of their state of preservation, they will be difficult to exhibit at any time.
	www.ccca.ca /c/writing/g/gagnon/gag001t.html?languagePref=fr& (1640 words)

	NGA: Themes in American Art: Glossary
		Specifically, a panel painting of a sacred figure who is the object of worship.
		Midwestern painters are identified most closely with the trend, depicting scenes of rural America, often with a nostalgic tone, but some regionalists also focused on urban life.
		Romantic painting tends to be rich in color, mood, and atmosphere.
	www.nga.gov /education/american/aaglossary.shtm (2159 words)

	All Shop's Fine Art : Paintings : American : Jon Berg Fine Arts
		The painting is a dream-like scene of a nude woman at left, a branch of leaves draping over a body of water seen at center and right.
		This is a classic regionalist Indiana scene of a beech forest landscape in the fall, a theme quite popular with a number of the regional Indiana artists.
		The painting appears to have been improperly primed by the artist, causing craquelure and flaking, some severe, in the sky and most seriously at lower left, where there are considerable losses.
	www.rubylane.com /shops/jbfinearts/ilist/,cs=Fine+Art:Paintings:American.html (2763 words)

	American Masters . Jasper Johns \| PBS
		His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete.
		Today, as his prints and paintings set record prices at auction, the meanings of his paintings, his imagery, and his changing style continue to be subjects of controversy.
		Johns' paintings of targets, maps, invited both the wrath and praise of critics.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/johns_j.html (877 words)

	Fine Art, Paintings, Oil, N. America, American on Trocadero
		Tibbs lived and painted in Bioxi, MS and this work appears to be from that region.
		Condition is excellent and the painting appears to remain in the original ebonized Eastlake Style frame.
		It is an prospecting scene, there is a number 08 under the signature which we think might be the year in was made 1908.
	www.trocadero.com /directory/Fine_Art:Paintings:Oil:N._America:American510.html (481 words)

	JOSEPH HIRSCH 1910 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the Great Depression, American Scene artists continued to depict common people and events in New York City, finding their subjects on the streets of Greenwich Village and at the amusement park at Coney Island.
		A distinguishing aspect of this American Scene Movement was its rejection of International Modernism in favor of social consciousness as a central impetus.'
		In response to a direct query about the painting, Hirsch wrote that it, followed the college's commencement ritual, which I witnessed when the oldest of my three sons graduated." A ceremonial occasion such as this one suited the artist's predilection for revealing the insubstantial and fragile human condition behind pomp and circumstance.
	www.butlerart.com /pc_book/pages/joseph_hirsch_1910.htm (567 words)

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