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The 1930 version of Coming from the Mill, painted some 13 years later, is evidence of a change in Lowry's use of light. Writing in the Manchester Guardian , his former tutor at the Salford School of Art , Bernard D. Taylor , criticised Lowry's paintings for being too dark.
Hunt, Marsha: The Way We Wore: Styles of the 1930s and '40s and Our World Since Then, Fallbrook Pub. Ltd., 1993, ISBN 1-882747-00-3 LaValley, Satch: "Hollywood and Seventh Avenue: The Impact of Historical Films on Fashion", in Hollywood and History: Costume Design in Film , Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Thames and Hudson, 1987, ISBN 0-500 ...
American Gothic painted by Grant Wood in 1930, now on display at the Art Institute of Chicago. He found inspiration in a Carpenter Gothic-style farm house in Eldon, Iowa, and used his dentist and sister as models for the people. Baptism in Kansas painted by John Steuart Curry in 1926, and since 1931 has belonged to the Whitney Museum of ...
24 September – Bernard Nevill, English textile designer and art collector (d. 2019) [13] 28 September – Nikolai Pozdneev, Russian painter (d. 1978) 3 October – Robyn Denny, British abstract artist (d. 2014) 7 October – Kurt Dornis, German painter, graphic artist and draughtsman; 8 October – Faith Ringgold, African American painter and ...
Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design, it was used in railroad locomotives, telephones, buses, appliances, and other devices to give the ...
Collectively, the artists of the New Deal produced a vast archive: Murals, including 1,100 post office murals , [6] free-standing and bas relief sculpture, an estimated 30,000 posters, [7] more than 700 books and pamphlets and radio scripts, [8] and architectural details for scores of public buildings, in a style now called WPA Moderne. [9]
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The Boston origins of the American movement date to a "wave of German and European-Jewish immigrants" in the 1930s and their "affinities to the contemporary German strain of figurative painting ... in artists like Otto Dix (1891–1969), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), and Emil Nolde (1867–1956), both in style and in subject matter," art historian Adam ...