American Modernism
An artistic and cultural movement in the
United States starting at the turn of the 20th
century with its core period between World War
I and World War II and continuing into the 21st
century.
Visual Arts
Marsden Hartley
(January 4, 1877 - September 2,
1943)
anAmerican
Modernistpainter, poet,
and essayist. Often
combines a thick
brushstrokes and vibrant
colors.
Painting No.
48(1913)
Handsome drinks
(1916)
Paul Jackson
Pollock
(January 28, 1912 August 11,
1956)
Convergence
(1952)
Oil on canvas
93.5 x 155 inches
She-Wolf
(1943)
Oil, gouache, and
plaster on canvas
41 7/8 x 67"
The Deep
(1953)
Oil and enamel on
canvas
Number 8 (1949)
Oil, gouache, and plaster
on canvas
41 7/8 x 67 inches
Number 11
(1952)
enamel &
aluminium paint
with glass on
canvas
83.5
192.5inches
Known also as Blue
Poles
TheworldsfamousfemaleAmericanmodernist
thatdevotedtocreatingimagerythat
expressedwhatshecalledthewideness
andwonderoftheworldasIliveinit.
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asherownincludeabstractions,largescaledepictionsofflowers,leaves,rocks,
shells,bonesandothernaturalforms,New
Yorkcityscapesandpaintingsofthe
unusualshapesandcolorsofarchitectural
andlandscapeformsofnorthernNew
Mexico.
Georgia Ram's
Head White
Hollyhock and
Little Hill (1935)
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
Georgia Ram's
Head White
Hollyhock and
Little Hill (1928)
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
John Marin
(December 1870 October
1953)
24 1/4 x 29 1/4inches
29 x 36 1/4 inches
John Marin used oil paint as thinly as
he did watercolor, the medium for
which he is best known.
Mark Rothko
was an Americanpainter of
Russian Jewish descent. He is
generally identified as
anAbstract Expressionist,
although he himself rejected
this label and even resisted
classification as an "abstract
painter."
No.5/No.22
Oil on Canvas
Untitled
Number 12
(1951)
Saffron
(1957)
Robert
Motherwell
was an
Americanpainter,printmaker,
and editor. He was one of the
youngest of theNew York
School(a phrase he coined),
which also includedPhilip
Guston,Willem de
Kooning,Jackson Pollock,
andMark Rothko.
Adolph Gottlieb
was anAmericanabstract
expressionistpainter, sculptor
and printmaker.
Rolling, 1961
Sentinel, 1951
Morris Louis
was anAmericanpainter.
During the 1950s he became
one of the earliest exponents
of Color Fieldpainting
Point of
Tranquility,1959
DALETKAF
Architecture
Guaranty
Building
Falling water
(1935, Southwestern
Pennsylvania)
TheSolomon R.
Guggenheim
Museum
(New York City
1959)
Hickox/Brown
house
(Illinois,United
States)
Richard Neutra
(April 8, 1892 April 16, 1970)
was anAustrian American
architect .
He came to be considered
among the most
importantmodernist
architects.
Neutra had a keen
appreciation for the
relationship between people
and nature; his trademark
plate glass walls and ceilings
which turn into deep
overhangs have the effect of
connecting the indoors with
the outdoors.
Kaufmann Desert
House (1947, Palm
Springs, California)
Kronish House
(1955, Beverly
Hills,California)
Walter Gropius
July 5,
(May 18, 1883
1969) was
aGermanarchitect and
founder of theBauhaus
Schoolwho, along
withLudwig Mies van der
Rohe,Le
CorbusierandFrank Lloyd
Wright, is widely regarded
as one of the pioneering
masters ofmodern
architecture.
Gropius House
(1938) in Lincoln,
Massachusetts
Fashion
Fashion
In the early 1920s, the ready-to-wear fashion
began to spread America. More women
earned their own wages and didnt want to
spend time on fittings. Fashion as the status
symbol was no more important as class
distinctions were becoming blurred. People
especially women called for inexpensive
fashion. In the aspect of mass production of
contemporary style clothing for women,
America went ahead of other countries.
Several designers of this fashion
includingJane Derbymade a stage pose.
Jane Derby
(May 10, 1895
August 9, 1965)
Women
By 1921 the longer
skirt, which was usually
long and uneven at the
bottom was out of date.
The short skirt became
popular by 1925. No
bosom, no waistline,
and hair nearly hidden
under a cloche hat.
The manufacturing of
cosmetics also began
from this decade.
Powder, lipstick, rouge,
eyebrow pencil, eye
shadow, colored nails,
women had them all.
Moreover, pearls came
in fashion as well.
Men
In this period, clothing
for men was more
conservative. Trousers
widened to 24inches at
the bottoms. Knickers,
increased the width and
length, were calledplus
fours.
In summer, white linen
was popular, while in the
winter an American coat
the raccoon coatwas
in fashion. The slouch
hat, made of felt, could
be rolled up and packed
into a suitcase. These
were very popular with
college men.
Children
Music
American Modernism
in Music
Armies of men have turned
to a better life by first hearing
the sounds of a Salvation
Army band. The next time you
hear a Salvation Army band,
no matter how humble, take
off your hat.
-John Philip Sousa
Is an American
composer and
conductor of the
late Romantic era,
known primarily for
American military
and patriotic
marches,
known
as
o The Liberty Bell
march king.
othe
The Thunderer
o The Washington Post
o Semper Fidelis
o The Stars and Stripes
Forever
Charles Edward
Ives
He is one of the first
American composers of
international
renown,though Ives'
music was largely
ignored during his life,
and many of his works
went unperformed for
many years.Over time,
Ives came to be
regarded as an
jaz
Jazz
music of
integration
White
Musicians
Benny
Goodman
Gene
Krup
a
Milton
Mezzrow
Louis
Armstrong
Literature
Nathanael West
born Nathan
Weinstein (October
17, 1903
December 22,
1940), was an
American author,
screenwriter and
satirist
Henry Miller
Henry
Valentine
Miller
(December 26, 1891 June 7,
1980) was an American writer.
He was known for breaking
with existing literary forms,
developing a new sort of semiautobiographical novel that
blended
character
study,
social criticism, philosophical
reflection, explicit language,
sex, surrealist free association
and
mysticism,
always
distinctly
about
and
expressive of the real-life
Henry Miller and yet also
fictional.
Gertrude Stein
(February 3, 1874
July 27, 1946) was an
American writer of
novels, poetry and
plays that eschewed
the narrative, linear,
and
temporal
conventions of 19thcentury literature, and
a fervent collector of
Modernist art.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 book by
Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography
authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway
(July 21, 1899 July 2,
1961) was an American
author and journalist.
His economical and
understated style had a
strong influence on
20th-century fiction,
while his life of
adventure and his public
image influenced later
generations.
The popularity of
Hemingway's work to a
great extent is based on
the themes, which
according to scholar
Frederic Svoboda are love,
war, wilderness and loss, all
of which are strongly
evident in the body of
work.[174] These are
recurring themes of
American literature, which
are clearly evident in
Hemingway's work
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner
(born Falkner, September
25, 1897 July 6, 1962),
also known as Will Faulkner,
was an American writer and
Nobel Prize laureate from
Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner
worked in a variety of
written media, including
novels, short stories, a play,
poetry,
essays
and
screenplays. He is primarily
known and acclaimed for
his novels and short stories
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key
Fitzgerald (September 24,
1896 December 21,
1940) was an American
author of novels and
short stories, whose
works are the
paradigmatic writings of
the Jazz Age, a term he
coined. He is widely
regarded as one of the
greatest American writers
of the 20th century.
The
Great
Gatsby
explores
themes
of
decadence,
idealism,
resistance to change,
social upheaval, and
excess,
creating
a
portrait of the Jazz Age
or the Roaring Twenties
that has been described
as a cautionary tale
regarding the American
Dream.
Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn
Mitchell (November 8,
1900 August 16, 1949)
was an American author
and journalist. One novel
by Mitchell was published
during her lifetime, the
American Civil War-era
novel, Gone with the Wind.
For it she won the National
Book Award for Most
Distinguished Novel of
1936 and the Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction in 1937.
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett
May 27, 1894 January 10,
1961) was an American
author
of
hard-boiled
detective novels and short
stories, a screenplay writer,
and political activist. Among
the enduring characters he
created are Sam Spade
(The Maltese Falcon), Nick
and Nora Charles (The Thin
Man), and the Continental
Op (Red Harvest and The
Dain Curse).
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