europe and america, 1930-45
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America, 1930-1945
Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, oil, fig.14-34
Van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait, 1434
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DOROTHEA LANGE, Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley, 1935. Fig. 14-31.
America, 1930-1945
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• Great Depression, government hires artists (WPA)
• Captures struggles of rural poor
• Used by US government to raise public funds for poor
• Image of universal motherhood (Madonna and child?)
DOROTHEA LANGE, Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley, 1935. Fig. 14-31.
America, 1930-1945
"I wish she [Lange] hadn't taken my picture. I can't get a penny out of it. She didn't ask my name. She said she wouldn't sell the pictures. She said she'd send me a copy. She never did.“
-Florence Thompson
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• One of 60 panel paintings• The African American
experience & struggle against discrimination
• Americans adapt European modernism
• Cubist tension of space• Abstracted forms • Harlem Renaissance
JACOB LAWRENCE, No. 49, from The Migration of the Negro, 1940–1941. Fig. 14-33.
America, 1930-1945
“They also found discriminationIn the North although it was muchDifferent from what they had known in the South.”
-caption accompanying image
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Hitler & the War Against “Degenerate” Art
Walter GropiusShop Block, the Bauhaus, Dessau1925-26, fig.14-37
Hitler touring the Degenerate Artexhibition, 1937
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Europe, 1930 to 1945
PABLO PICASSO, Guernica, 1937. Fig. 14-19.
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• Response to fascist bombing in Spain
• Political role of art• Paris International
Exposition• Aspects of Cubism• Monochromatic• Brutality and darkness
Europe, 1930 to 1945
Painting is not made to decorateapartments. It is an instrument foroffensive and defensive waragainst the enemy. -Picasso
Tapestryversion at UnitedNations
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• Organic architecture
• Modern and local natural materials
• Pure forms, little ornament
• Cantilevered levels to integrate with setting
• Architecture of space, not mass
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), 1936–1939.
Fig. 14-40.
Architecture, 1930-45
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Fallingwater, LEGO Architecture, F.L. Wright Collection