John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, c. 1768–70 Benjamin West, The Treaty of Penn with the Indians,...
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American Art John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, c. 1768–70 Benjamin West, The Treaty of Penn with the Indians, 1771–72 Ralph Blakelock, Moonlight, 1885 Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream, 1899, Kirby Sattler, I am Crow, 1991 John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885–86
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American Art
John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, c. 1768–70
Benjamin West, The Treaty of Penn with the Indians, 1771–72
Ralph Blakelock, Moonlight, 1885
Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream,
1899,
Kirby Sattler, I am Crow, 1991
John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885–86
Vocabulary
Landscape Portrait To depict, portray To show To illustrate Entitled=named,
title=name Analyze a painting,
interpret a painting To represent To take place in or be set
in To describe character
Theme, subject Abstract Concrete To recognize Reality To exist Painter- artist who
paints (писать) pictures
Refer to
American Art
American Art is not very old, in comparison with art from other countries.
Early American art was very similar to European art.
The first American painters often depicted Revolutionary War scenes.
Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851
Grant Wood
Grant Wood was an American painter from Iowa.
His painting “American Gothic” is very well-known in the United States.
The title of the painting, “American Gothic,” refers to the architectural style of the top (upper) window of the house.
Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930)
American Gothic Parodies
Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator.
Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades.
The problem we all live with
Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist born in Wisconsin in 1887.
She is mainly known for her modernist paintings. These paintings use both abstract and concrete elements.
Concrete means that objects can be recognized. For example, she painted flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes.
Abstract means that the objects or scenes don’t exist in reality or don’t look the way they look in reality.
Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley was an American painter from Maine.
He studied painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He also studied painting in New York.
Are his paintings abstract or concrete?
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Breakfast in Bed
Whistler’s Mother
Subway
Saint Francis Venerating the Crucifix (1595) El Greco
Starry Night(1889)- Vincent Van Gogh
Ivan Tsarevich riding the Gray Wolf (1889) Viktor Vasnetsov
