Kenyon Cox, An Ecologue, 1890, Academy

Function: pleasure

For: Wealthy males

Shows ideal beauty of human body

Luks, Mrs. Gamley, 1930, Ashcan School

Function: promote good

For: women or everyone

Cafferty, The fish basket, 1926, Ashcan School

function:promote values

for:everyone

John Sloan, Hairdresser's Window, 1907, Ashcan School

function: emphasize tribe/connection

for: everyone

Luks, The Spielers, 1905, Ashcan School

function: goodness of fun/ no sexual from dance

for:everyone

George Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913, Ashcan School

function:goodness, community is good

for:everyone

Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907, Straight photography

function:aesthetic pleasure

for: elite

Marin, Lower Manhattan, 1922, Steiglitz school- Expressionism

function:how manhattan feels, aesthetic

for: the elite

Sloan, The Picnic Grounds, 1906-7, Ashcan School

function:liberate women

for:everyone/women

O'Keefe, A Black Bird over Snow-covered Hills, 1946, Stieglitz School-abstraction

function: public provide viewer with escape private steiglitz death

for: the elite

Benton, The Lord is my Shepard, 1926, American Scene Painting- Regionalism

promotes midwest is good henri, country is good city is bad

for:everyone

am rejection of europeans

John Steuart Curry, Baptism in Kansas, 1928, American Scene Painting-Regionalism

function: promote getting back to roots, community, religion both which are lost in city

for:everyone

Wood, American Gothic, 1930, American Scene Painting- Regionalism

function: promote simplicity am values, sometimes values are too repressionistic, victorian values 

for:everyone

 pitchfork gives threatening tone, daughter has pained expression, loose hair

Reginald Marsh, Why not use the El, 1930, American Scene Painting- Urban Realism

function: show women are vulnerable and alienation in the city

for: everyone

Reginald Marsh, Twenty Cent Movie, 1936, American Scene Painting- Urban Realism

Function: social statements (people influenced badly by media love,sex,blood,sin)

for:everyone

 celebration of lower class values

Hopper, Pennsylvania Coal Town, 1947, American Scene Painting- urban realism

function: promote life (sun,fern), we're always alone

for:everyone

Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, American Scene Painting- urban realism

function:"sad oasis" people go out to not be alone, light redeems giving hope, viewing looking in from out with no door in sight creates lonliness

for: everyone

 city is lonely

William Gropper, Sweat Shop, c. 1930, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

function: communist view, capitalist make profit off of workers

for: everyone

 through The Masses

Ben Shahn, Scott's Run, West Virgina, 1937, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

function: promote new deal/help coal miners

for:everyone

 symbol of Great Depression

Walker Evans, Sharecropper's Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

Function: evoke sympathy for farmers, inspire to vote for New Deal (Roosevelt)

For:everyone

Walker Evans, Dining Area and Washing Area, 1936, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

function: promote values of simplicity/ rural values

for: everyone

Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, CA, 1936, American Scene Painting- Social Realist

function: propaganda-evoke sympathy for poor, vote for whoever would help

for: everyone

 made for magazines and papers madonna and child

Sheeler, Bucks County Barn, c. 1920, Persistence of Modernism

function: social value- premodern existance/simplicity

for: everyone

Sheeler, The Staircase, 1925, Persistence of Modernism

function: promotion of pre-modern values/simplicity

For: everyone

 compromise am and euro values, formal arangement, amish values

Davis, Hot Stillscape for Six Colors, 1940, Persistence of Modernism-formalism

function: aesthetic pleasure of listening to jazz and am values(freedom of expression/jazz) am political values

For:everyone

 soviet,german, russian artists werent free

Krasner, Compostition, 1943, Persistence of Modernism- AAA art

 Function: aesthetic pleasure

For: everyone(to uplift them to the elite)

Gorky, Garden in Sochi , 1940, Abstract Expressionism-Jungian Phase

Function: collective unconscious, to heal

for: everyone

yung art comes out of surrealism and automatism, your shit for frued jung beneath your shit is everyones gold, garden of wish fulfilment

Gorky, Plow and the song, 1947 Abstract Expressionism - Jungian Phase

function: get back to roots

for: everyone

Gottlieb, Male and Female, 1950, Abstract Expressionism-Jungian Phase

function: heal: healthy psychee = parts male and female

for: everyone

Rothko, Omen of the Eagle, 1942, Abstract Expressionism- Jungian phase

function:"Agamemnon" evoke myth

for: everyone

greek tragedy is universal

Pollock, Male and Female, 1942 abstract expressionism- Jungian

Function: to heal

For: everyone

healthy psychee has balance of male and female, pollock learned this from yungian analist, angles male curves female. stable center, primitive art is closer to truth

Pollock, Pasiphae, 1943, Jungian phase - Freudian

Function: myth

for: everyone

promotes pain and anguish

Expressive

Philadelphia 4

The Armory Show

291 Gallery

Pictorialism.

Formalism-

Roy Stryker 1935-1945

Alfred H. Barr 1926

Abstract Art

Apollonian

Dionysan

Music (blind will to live)  we know we are going to die (apollonian) we need to live life and have fun (Dionysian)

1920-1940

·         Regionalism- Regionalism Benton, Curry, and wood

·         Urban Realism

·         Social Realism

1940-1960

1.      Jungian Phase, 1940-1947

2.      Mature Phase, 1947-1960

a.      Gesturalism

b.      Color Frield

Pollock, Autumn Rythm, 1950 Abstract Expressionism- Gestural Phase

Function: To achieve a blissful state of harmony

for himself

 “when I am in my painting I am not aware of what I am doing… it is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take,  and the painting comes out well”

                             De Kooning, Asheville, 1949, Abstract Expressionism—Gesturalism 

  Function: express the pain and anxiety

For: Himself

                              De Kooning, Woman I, 1950-52, Abstract Expressionism--Gesturalism

               Function:to express frustration his wife, mom, himself, and women in magazines

                  (expressive and expressionism)

For: himself

The Hairdressors Window

The Steerage

Lord is My Shepard

The Fish Basket

Mrs. Gamley

American Gothic

Why Not Use the El

Sweatshop

Twenty Cent Movie

Sharecroppers Family

Dining Area and Washing Area

Migrant Mother

Hot Stillscape for 6 Colors

Garden in Sochi

Nighthawks

Omen of the Eagle

Pollock, Male and Female

Pasiphae

Composition

Plow and The song

Pennsylvania Coal Town

Woman I

Autumn Rythm

Gottlieb, Male and Female