Through suffering, comes a new consciousness in man. America has been a haven for unity and freedom for decades. To achieve this requires much loss and pain. The strive of the American culture for the attainment of such social luxuries is of great courage, will-power, faith and pride. During a time when the first World War had ended and the country was in a state of isolation, there were people within its borders that had an undying belief in what this country stood for. Though often overlooked and
Through his Precisionist paintings, Charles Demuth shows the influence his cultural upbringing provided in his youth and hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Lancaster becomes a local industrial icon through Charles Demuth's use of Precisionist painting through inspiration from grain elevators, storage complexes, and architecture in his last series of panels depicting Lancaster and in turn, becomes some of his most well known work. For Charles Demuth, his hometown of Lancaster would be the primary
Art by definition is the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. Whether it was shown visually or musically, the arts of the twenties were reflective of the time period. Even in books, the extravagance that people lived in was evident. The music of the twenties was on the opposite end of the spectrum from the music that had been
eras circumstances “fostered a period of experimentation in the arts” which led to concrete depictions of war, nature, and everyday life (Kuiper). For instance, Charles Demuth, an American painter, is most famously known for displaying a style of “precisionism,” which depicted sharp contrasts in architecture. This type of painting conveyed modernistic characteristics in the geometric shapes, and prominent emphasis. Similarly, Marsden Hartley, a painter as well, utilized thick brushstrokes and lively
and social changes that have taken place in the 20th century are the rich varieties of art styles that have developed. Notable are the number of “isms”, such as Fauvism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, neoplasticism, surrealism, precisionism. Modern Art didn’t have a main origin from where it came from. But there is a general agreement that it was first seen between 18th century to 19th century, from the French revolutionist movement. Art in its broader meaning, however, involves