American regionalism

American regionalism
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American Regionalism
1930's
An American term, Regionalism refers to the work of a number of rural artists, mostly from the Midwest, who came to prominance in the 1930s.

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An American term, Regionalism refers to the work of a group of rural artists, mostly from the Midwest, who came to prominance in the 1930's.

American Regionalism: 1930s
An American term, Regionalism refers to the work of a number of rural artists, mostly from the Midwest, who came to prominance in the 1930s.

American Regionalism (c. 1930s): painting, prints, works on paper. This movement was primarily composed of Midwestern rural artists who appeared around the 1930s.

American Regionalism
The works stress local and small-town themes are often called "American regionalism", and those depicting urban scenes are many times called "social realism".

The American Regionalism movement, also known as the American Scene Painters, began during the Great Depression in the 1930's. The movement is divided into two groups of artists with different approaches.

Note: Echoes of American Regionalism can be seen in the government approved style of Socialist Realism (c.1920-80), which flourished in Russia, China and other totalitarian states during the early (and later) 20th century.

Some origins of lowbrow's approach can be traced to art movements of the early 20th century, specifically the works of the Dadaists and the leading proponents of the American Regionalism movement (artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Thomas Hart Benton, ...

American Scene Painting depicts scenes of typical American life and landscape painted in a naturalistic, descriptive vein during the Great Depression in the United States. It is an umbrella term for the rural American Regionalism and the urban and ...

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