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The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1]
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 ...
Charles Demuth, Aucassin and Nicolette, oil on canvas, 1921. Precisionism was a modernist art movement that emerged in the United States after World War I.Influenced by Cubism, Purism, and Futurism, Precisionist artists reduced subjects to their essential geometric shapes, eliminated detail, and often used planes of light to create a sense of crisp focus and suggest the sleekness and sheen of ...
According to the Social Security Administration, the most popular baby names of the 1920s were “taken from a universe that includes 11,372,808 male births and 12,402,235 female births.”
The late 1920s and the 1930s belonged (among many others) to two movements in American painting, Regionalism and Social Realism. The regionalists focused on the colorfulness of the American landscape and the complexities of country life, whereas the social realists went into the subjects of the Great Depression, poverty, and social injustice ...
Harlem Renaissance – 1920 – 1930s, United States; American scene painting – c. 1920 – 1945, United States; New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) – 1920s, Germany; Grupo Montparnasse – 1922, France; Northwest School – 1930s – 1940s, United States; Social realism – 1929, international; Socialist realism – c. 1920 – 1960, began ...
Before The Wizard of Oz was created in the 1930s, the name Dorothy was remembered in regards to Dorothy Parker, a Rothschild by birth and an American author known for books and short stories, such ...
See Art periods for a chronological list. This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in ...