Sentences with phrase «american rural scene»

Cole's early Hudson River landscapes, largely completed in the 1820s, presented the American rural scene through European conventions of the picturesque and sublime - in a sense, a sort of combination of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840).

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Familial strife played out under a rural Middle - American sky in Nichols» Shotgun Stories, setting the scene for the director's half - decade of rich drama dipped in religious myth.

Just as 19th century American Realists shunned romanticized views of their world, the artists included in this exhibition have abandoned conventional ideals of scenic beauty to depict, in detail, unremarkable scenes of the rural landscape as they encounter it or AS IS.

The artist aligned himself firmly with Regionalism, an American art movement of the 1920s and 1930s that promoted the depiction of ordinary people and scenes of the rural United States.

These artworks range from romantic depictions of the South's agricultural history to scenes of African - American life that address themes including social justice, emotional response to place, and rural decay and degradation.

Scenes of the rural South, portraits of industrial workers, familial interior scenes, sporting events and political forums are all included in this snapshot of American life by Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Julius Bloch, James Chapin, Philip Evergood, William Gropper, Chaim Gross, Robert Gwathmey, Palmer Hayden, John Hovannes, Edward Laning, Jacob Lawrence, Jack Levine, Saul Levine, Edmund Lewandowski, Jackson Lee Nesbitt, Thomas LoMedico, Reginald Marsh, Paul Meltsner, Augusta Savage, Raphael Soyer and Warren WheScenes of the rural South, portraits of industrial workers, familial interior scenes, sporting events and political forums are all included in this snapshot of American life by Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Julius Bloch, James Chapin, Philip Evergood, William Gropper, Chaim Gross, Robert Gwathmey, Palmer Hayden, John Hovannes, Edward Laning, Jacob Lawrence, Jack Levine, Saul Levine, Edmund Lewandowski, Jackson Lee Nesbitt, Thomas LoMedico, Reginald Marsh, Paul Meltsner, Augusta Savage, Raphael Soyer and Warren Whescenes, sporting events and political forums are all included in this snapshot of American life by Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Julius Bloch, James Chapin, Philip Evergood, William Gropper, Chaim Gross, Robert Gwathmey, Palmer Hayden, John Hovannes, Edward Laning, Jacob Lawrence, Jack Levine, Saul Levine, Edmund Lewandowski, Jackson Lee Nesbitt, Thomas LoMedico, Reginald Marsh, Paul Meltsner, Augusta Savage, Raphael Soyer and Warren Wheelock.

The great popular art of the»30s was so called American Scene painting, very rural, very nostalgic painting.

In the 1930s and 1940s, nationalism resurfaced with the Regionalists, who celebrated the American lifestyle by depicting rural scenes in a concise manner, among them, Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton.

Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

• American Scene Painting (1925 - 45) Realist style that exalted rural and small town America.

American Scene painters primarily lived in rural areas and created works that were realistic and addressed social, economic and political issues.

American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small - town America primarily in the Midwest and Deep South.

Most renowned for his oil paintings depicting both urban and rural scenes, American realist Edward Hopper has cemented his place amongst the greats of American modern art.

Other painters of the American frontier include Frederic Remington (1861 - 1909) the most famous portrayer of the Cowboy West; the watercolourist Charles Russell (1864 - 1926); genre - painter William Sidney Mount (1807 - 68) noted for his rural scenes that appealed to city dwellers; Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 - 1917) noted for his romantic but somber mythological scenes.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

In a different way to the idealised scenes of Sean Keating, Charles Lamb was one of the first painters to paint a type of heroic Western peasant, thus marking the difference both between the rural and the urban, and between Irish culture and one with English, European and American influence.