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Thomas Hart Benton. Lord is my Shepherd. 1930
-elderly deaf couple
-expressionist style of exaggeration
-conveys life in Midwest, had no patience for the city, world would be better without the city |
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Thomas Hart Benton. City Building, from America Today Mural Series. 1930
-can be private or public
-building up of cities
-modes of recreation
-all races working together |
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Thomas Hart Benton. City Activities with Dance Hall, from America Today. 1930
-mural series
-building up American themes and pastimes |
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| Harry Sternberg. The Family-Industry and Agriculture. 1940 -government doesn't want anything to do with modernisms -very standard -nuclear family |
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Jack Levine. Feast of Pure Reason. 1940
-product of WPA also social realist
-not a new yorker, from Boston
-interested in political corruption
-police could be bought by gangs, this exposes corruption |
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Dorothea Lange. Tractored Out Childress County, Texas. 1940
-barren realistic
-texture and lines are interesting
-black and white adds to desperation |
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John Steuart Curry. Baptism in Kansas. 1930
-an heir to realism, but did not focus on city
-piety in small town, religion, homegrown values
-interference of modern life
-they are happy because they do honest labor
-midwestern themes, before crash of stock market
-more loose brushstroke |
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Alexandre Hogue. Drought Stricken Area. 1935
-part of the Dallas 9
-his mom was very earth friendly, loved the land, take care of it
-very precise, called abstract realist
-very concerned about land
-it was tractored out, cow starving, empty recedes into the background
-negative view on whats happening to the land
-physchoreality, ecocentric messages gets across |
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Edward Hopper. Early Sunday Morning. 1930
-exhibited with the Eight once or twice
-not part of the WPA or FSA
-type of realist but not social
-painter of solititude, isolation
-good lighting, very nostalgic |
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