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Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, also known as The Athenaeum and The Unfinished Portrait, 1796, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is his most celebrated and famous work. [1] Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists. Before colonization, there were many flourishing traditions of ...
Circa 450-600 AD, original fresco. Painting in the Americas before European colonization is the Precolumbian painting traditions of the Americas. Painting was a relatively widespread, popular and diverse means of communication and expression for both religious and utilitarian purpose throughout the regions of the Western Hemisphere.
American realism was a movement in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century.
Hudson River School. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. Early on, the paintings typically depicted the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains.
Thomas Cole (1 February 1801 – 11 February 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [1][2] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.
American Impressionism. Frank W. Benson, Eleanor Holding a Shell, North Haven, Maine, 1902, private collection. American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. [1]
Alice De Wolf Kellogg (1862–1900), painter. Hudson Mindell Kitchell (1862–1944), luminescent and tonalist landscapes. Albert Pike Lucas (1862–1945), landscape, figure, and portrait. Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947), painter. Mina Fonda Ochtman (1862–1924), painter. Robert Reid (1862–1929), painter and muralist.
Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the immediate aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depression and Mexican muralists. [1][2] The term was first applied to American art in 1946 by the ...