Written Assignment 10 art100
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WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 10Written Assignment 10Ashley Matthews Thomas Edison State University
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 102Written Assignment 10There are enormous and important changes and transitions between the Americas (particularly the United States) and the rest of the world, taking place between about 1880 and 1930. On the one hand, between 1881 and 1924, there was an enormous volume of immigration to the United States, mostly from Europe, which was cut off at the end 1924 by the Johnson Act. In doing so, that changes the demographics of America, particularly along its seaboard cities, and the relationship between America and Europe in terms of where people have come from and where people are coming to. On theother hand, there are two world wars, which not only played a role in bringing America to a position of domination politically speaking in the world, but more broadly for humanity at large. Both the West andEast raised questions about what we as a civilization and what we as a species are all about. Within these transition events, there is always art continuing. Within the transitional world, there come important artists from Europe to America, who are important in raising the importance of art in America, both for America and for the world at large (Soltes, LD40).Hans Hofmann, who was German-born and came after spending time back and forth between Munich and Paris, came to the United States in 1932, and taught for a while at Berkeley. By 1934, he had been there and come back to New York City and established his own school, and became renowned as a teacher as much as an artist and as a painter in its own right. Hoffman's influence was very far-flung,as was his interest in styles. Those interests would include Jackson Pollock, whose style is so different from what can be seen of Hoffman, but the principle underlying Hoffman you can see in the principles underlying Pollock. This is what Hoffman called his push and pull technique which suggests that there is no such thing as non-realist art, that the use in a judicious manner, even in an abstract landscape of space, form, and color, can create a sense of reality, so that realism is the wrong term. People should be using representationalism in contrast with abstraction, non-realism because abstraction can be just as
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 103real and it can just as really reflect on space and into space as in an Albertian, 15th-century, Florentine discussion of space on a flat surface (Soltes, LD40).When looking to the work of Thomas Hart Benton, you get an exemplification of the decision to go in a figurative direction, just as you get a statement of the fact of America's extension across the continent, both artistically and demographically. Thomas Benton was born in Neosho, Missouri and his father was a lawyer and a congressman, which means his childhood was spent in part shuttling back and forth between Washington and Missouri. In doing so, he had a good sense of the broader America than just the eastern coast and can see in his work a kind of sharp-edged, but very sensitively molded sculptural style in his vast murals that give us the sense of the bucolic farmlands of pre-industrial America and city scenes that give a sense of the hurly-burly of the urban reality of America as well (Soltes, LD40).
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 104References Soltes, O. Z. (2008). Art Across the Ages. Lecture presented at The Great Courses Series in GeorgetownUniversity.