Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of five boys, and began taking an interest in art after his oldest brother, Charles Pollock. He later enrolled at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, first doing sculptures, and then later doing paintings. After getting kicked out for starting fights, he moved to New York and shadowed Thomas Hart Benton, attending the Art Students League. Benton’s family took Jackson under their wing. But after his father died suddenly, Pollock became
to be an Art Teacher Have you ever been to a point in your life where there were to many decisions and not enough time? This is what happened to me in my senior year of high school. Throughout my teen years, I never discussed college with my family or did they with me. College for some reason was not on my agenda. Then I realized that I wanted to go to further my education. The reason I chose to go to college was that I am an artist, and felt that I needed to learn more about art techniques
Proposal for An Advanced Art Project First off, I need to propose my theme that will encompass the majority of my art works in my stated media. Out of painting, print making and sculpture, I am choosing to work with the latter for two main reasons. One, I'm not that great at capturing visual ideas on the somewhat two- dimensional surface of paper or canvas. Adding to that I thought that sculpture would allow me to have a greater release of creativity as my work can explode into the third
public art project, organized by the Chicago Public Art Program , commemorates the city’s industrial history, while bringing a sense of community and beauty to Chicago’s citizens and tourists. In this “parade”, every cow is full of meaning as well as artistic value. Although many might argue, I, to the contrary, would like to applaud the City of Chicago for the implementation of this great project. This project’s idea was brought to Chicago by Peter Hanig, after he saw a similar project in Zurich
with theatre and the arts as well. The Federal Theatre Project was one of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)'s projects that was created to help deal with the economic turmoil caused by the Great Depression. Thousands of artists, whether it was in the form of writing, music, or performing arts, were put out of work. The Federal Arts projects were created to reinstate jobs for unemployed artists as well as create displays of art for the public. "The Federal Theatre Project, directed by the former
establishment of the Federal Theatre Project. As soon as the government acquired the role of positioning individuals to produce theatre, the government had the capability to incorporate the advance. The Federal Theatre Project tried to give jobless theater personal work because trendy radio shows and films with sound had nearly substituted vaudeville as America's preferred practices of performing, and many of even the best vaudevillians lost their jobs. The Federal Theatre Project also attempted to
What Was The Federal Theatre Project????? Throughout the late 1920's an important theatrical movement developed: The Workers' Theatre Movement. In the end, it diminished around the middle of the 1930's, and one of the developments aiding the decline of the Workers' Theatre Movement, was the creation of the Federal Theatre Project. The Federal Theatre Project was the largest and most motivated effort mounted by the Federal Government to organize and produce theater events. Once the government took
of the First Red Scare and the Great Depression, The Cradle Will Rock and the events surrounding its debut contributed directly to the end of the Federal Theatre Project. Many opponents of Roosevelt’s New Deal called many of its efforts “boondoggling,” i.e. that they had little substance and wasted money more than fixed the economy . The arts projects especially were the subject of such ridicule. Viewed as frivolous luxury in a time of poverty, the New York Times was one of many to say that “their
negative effects of the Great Depression? In the Great Depression, with no money and nothing else to do, people turned to anything to keep their attention off of their own poverty and misfortune. They distracted themselves by turning to entertainment, art, and literature. Even in a dark time, the country’s traditions and culture prospered. The easiest, and most popular way to have a good time was going to see moving pictures. These moving
the years continued, the WPA was heavily critized by government officials. They argued that money was being spent to fund projects that had no real benefit to the economy. Some examples of this included tap dancing lessons and murals painted in post offices. These government officials created a new word “boondoggling”, which was used to describe the agency’s make-work projects as a waste of money. Roosevelt then quickly retorted to this complaint that “the high morale of the workers was well worth
our economic, political and social behavior. The New Deal was not purely economically rooted. Roosevelt rather than basing his strategies on the rules of economics he implemented projects based on opportunity and practicality. The overall goal of the New Deal was to introduce America to a larger more expansive federal government which took control and provide services to assist the country out of the depression. The New Deal began with several programs some successful other not so successful
Democratic Art: The New Deal’s Influence on American Culture by Sharon Ann Musher explains the roles of government funding for the arts, particularly visual artists. The book outlines how the New Deal succeeded in it’s task and failed, as well as how it has impacted the current relationship between the art world and the government. Musher’s thesis sheds light on the duality between the types of art inspired by patriotism (Federal One Art), the relationship between artists and audiences, and the
implemented a series of executive actions, creating programs and new Federal agencies to help revive the economy. Together this was called The New Deal. One of the agencies that was created was called The Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was created in order to put millions of unemployed Americans to work through governmental projects. Over a period of 8 years, the WPA spent over 3.3 billion dollars on public projects, some of which are still used today. Simultaneously as the United
legislation the Federal Emergency Relief Act. Based on a system of work relief, this project's primary objective was simply to get people back to work, artists included. The government had no particular commitment to the arts, but it realized that artists "have to eat like other people."2 New Deal employment projects, however, didn't just put food on the artist's table. Through an innovative set of programs, the government set the scene for a richly productive era in American art. In 1935 Roosevelt
Kieffer takes a complete different approach then both Nelson and Moore focusing on the art history of the New Deal. Nelson and Moore discuss both the NYA and the CCC. The articles have a complete different spectrum to the New Deal, allowing for all three articles for an interesting read and different perspectives. In Connie Kieffer, “New Deal Murals,” her thesis deals with how the New Deal art effects todays pubic art and education systems. Through out the article, there isn’t any primary sources to
Urban Land Institute. Preservation Ventures, the project’s original developers, began renovating the five Victorian homes that were already at the site in 1982. To fund this project, Preservation Ventures used the Federal Historic Preservation Tax Credit as a source of equity to redevelop the site's five structures. The Federal Historic Preservation Tax encourages private developers to invest in the rehabilitation of historic buildings. It provides a 20% income tax credit for income producing sites
"Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?" If some people in this country have their way, and funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is cut, then the answer to that question will be no. Many people in this country want the federal government to remove the NEA from the national budget or at least cut back on its funding. Some of these people do not think that the Endowment is necessary, other people argue that the agency funds too many artists who create works that are
teachers, funding and academic programs can help all the students to reach higher levels of achievement. The most challenging economic conditions in more than a generation have magnified the already intense financial pressure on school budgets. The federal stimulus has ended, and Congress has not reauthorized $ 10 million in education jobs funding that supported more than a hundred
Roosevelt took to try to restore the American economy, give Americans pride again, and have faith in the government. The New Deal started in 1933 and lasted until 1938. The New Deal was based on relief, recovery, and reform. The New Deal included federal action of unprecedented scope to stimulate industrial recovery, assist victims of the Depression, guarantee minimum living standards, and prevent future economic crises. Many economic, political, and social factors lead up to the implementation of
and passed to reduce funding that goes to art programs across the United States. It has become prominent, in the minds of committees in charge of funding programs within school districts, that art programs are not a necessity within school districts, but they are. These committees believe that there are more important activities and subjects that deserve a larger sum of money than the arts With doing so, they give the money that should be providing the arts with