American art before and after World War II.

American Art Before and After World War II
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Art is the process of assembling essentials purposefully by appealing to senses and emotions. It incorporates various ranges of human activities and ways of communication including paintings, films, use of literature material and music. Art, being a component, of culture reflects on both the social and economic elements in its design. The central role of art is to convey ideas and ethics among cultures (Greenhill & LaFountain, 2015). Art has changed over centuries, and new revolutions are coming up. Art entails animations, religious concepts, music, dance, graffiti use, mosaic, paintings and stage performances. Visual arts are recognized the oldest due to the use of objects and images conception.
The very first chance for Americans’ to get an opportunity to view the new art developing in Europe was at the Armory show in New York (Greenhill & LaFountain, 2015). Exhibitions in this show were the following; Matisse, Picasso, and post-impressionists. Famous American galleries put on display only works with the European artists since only European artists were taken seriously. Art has always being used as a form of entertaining whose influence comes from social, political and world changing events (Harvey, 2012).
Some of the leaders of the Abstract Expressionism movement were Jackson Pollock, William de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Jay Meuser (Harvey, 2012). Jay Meuser, a California-based expressionist, painted in a non-objective style, and his painting was known as Mare Nostrum.

Mark Rothko first showed his artistic works in the year 1929 used color field painting (Greenhill & LaFountain, 2015). Some of Rothko’s arts include Crucifixion, Entrance to Subway, Oedipus and Four Darks in Red. William de Kooning was widely known for his powerful women series of six paintings. William used action painting and was a strong believer that artists acted out of inner desires, and the result of the emotions is a picture to be read and seen by the viewers.
The great depression was a severe international depression that took place in the course of the year 1930s. It started in the year 1929 to 1930 varying among different nations (Kleiner, 2015). Its origin is in the United States of America after a reduction in the stock prices on September 4th, 1929 (Kleiner, 2015). The depression intensified the artistic works leading to technical changes such as reduced popularization of the media devices like the radio and a worldwide break from modernization. However, the creation and private funding of Seattle museum are in this period playing a vital role to the art collector Richard Fuller and his mother, Margaret Fuller. Currently, the building houses the Seattle Asian Art Museum (Kleiner, 2015).
Harvey, (2012) asserts that among the artists in the great depression are Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and Aleixandre Hogues. Aleixandre Hogues criticized the farmers on the Great Plains for their inconsiderateness and avariciousness on the nature world. The dull and ornery member Thomas Hart Benton focused on the positive vision of America just like Grant Wood. Some of Aleixandre Hogues arts include Mother Earth Laid Bare, Crucified Land, Drought Survivors, Dust Bowl, Howdy Neighbor and Soil and Subsoil (Greenhill & LaFountain, 2015).
Artwork during the great depression came hand in hand with some propaganda from some politician. However, it brought abundant life and joy in various ways. It helped promote the American Culture and fine art. Furthermore, it provided employment to the jobless talented artists. It also assisted in rediscovering America by promoting a sense of national identity during the challenging period and celebrated the American people through visual arts and films. Income was also earned through the sale of paintings, posters, films, photographic prints and books.
Social reform movements aim at making constant changes instead of the quick changes. The tools in the great depression period gradually improved the living conditions through the sale of artistic works by creating more income (Greenhill & LaFountain, 2015). During the great depression period, there was an increase in social and political unrest. However, the great depression artists used art to address the American Society challenges and in return helped in making a change.
Apart from art, other forms of messaging include the use of telegraphy which is a long distance broadcast of textual messages, and the encoding method should be known to the receiver and the sender. Wireless telegraphy was used mainly by the government businesses and military. Letters were also used, and a delivery man was sent to deliver due to lack of postal offices. Radio beacons in the aviation world were used in passing a given message. The use of fax was used as a way of messaging.
Abstract expressionism is the first indigenous American Art Movement since the end of the World War 2 developed in New York in the 1940s whose name is derived from a combination of German Expressionist painters (Greenhill & LaFountain, 2015). The name, abstract expressionism, was first applied in the American art in the year 1946 by Robert Coates. The movement put New York City at the center of the western art world a former role for Paris thus attaining universal influence (Kleiner, 2015).
Abstract Expressionism is in one way or another similar to Russian artists due to the many stylistic resemblances (Greenhill & LaFountain, 2015). It leads to the development of primitive art, individual styles, mysterious ancient inscriptions and mythic. It yielded two modern art movements well known as the social realism and regionalism and the movements failed to fulfill their desire for a break with the current thinking. They were influenced by artists from Europe who helped new and creative possibilities.
The mature abstract expressionism leads to the artist developing new techniques. For instance, Polock developing a radical new technology by the paintings being entirely nonobjective, and they remained in scale, subject matter and technique (Kleiner, 2015). It also lays strong perspective of color where artists like Newman, Still, and Mark Rothko create simplified art and more color domination fields. In the advent of the 1960s, a new group of artists appeared who favored figurative paintings and in return rejecting the abstract paintings.
Color field painting is a style characterized by simple images creating great emotional impact making it contemplative and intellectual. It also unshackles the artist from myths, wistfulness, links and memory of the Western European paintings. Execution is on a monumental scale to generate and create intimate relationships with the viewers. Mark Rothko is the most distinguished artist among the painters (Greenhill & LaFountain, 2015). His paintings entail two or three vertical or horizontal rectangles varying in width and length and different color schemes, and this makes the pictures unique creating a strong impression of an enigmatic radiance flooding and viewers will experience a hollow feeling and sensation.
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Harvey, E. J. (2012). The civil war and american art. London: Yale University Press.
Kleiner, F. S. (2015). Gardner’s art through the ages. Boston: Cengage Learning.