Title: The Progression of American Art Movements | TheArtStory
Headings: American Art - History and Concepts
American Art - History and Concepts
Native American Art
Folk Art
American Architecture
Hudson River School (1826-70)
Luminism (1850-75)
Tonalism (1870-1915)
American Impressionism (1880-1920)
Ashcan School (1900-15)
Photography: Pictorialism, Straight Photography, and Beyond (1902-Present)
Synchromism (1912-24)
Harlem Renaissance (1920 - early 1940s)
Fourteenth Street School (1920-40)
American Regionalism (1928-43)
Social Realism (1929 - late 1950s)
Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, Post-Painterly and Hard-Edge Abstraction (1943-65)
Neo-Dada (1952-70)
Pop Art and Photorealism (mid 1950s-1970s)
Minimalism and Post-Minimalism (1960 - Present)
Earth Art and Environmental Art (1960s - Present)
The Multinational Flavors of Postmodernism (1960s - Present)
Do Not Miss
The Important Artists and Works of American Art
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Content: Austrian architects Richard Neutra and R.M. Schindler introduced the style when they moved to America in the 1910 and worked with Frank Lloyd Wright. Though both men created notable International Style buildings, as seen by Neutra's Lovell Health House (1929), the aesthetic did not truly flourish in the United States until after World War II, when economic expansion led to a boom in skyscraper construction. Leading architects, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, came to the United States in the post-war period and taught a new generation of American architects, while designing notable buildings. Mies for instance, built the Seagram Building (1954-58) in New York and the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago (completed in 1956). The International Style, with its glass curtains and industrial construction, was also used for fast-food restaurants and gas stations as America undertook construction of new interstates, connecting the country from coast to coast. Beginning in 1950, Brutalism, also called New Brutalism, was a style of massive architecture that primarily employed unfinished, precast concrete. The style became popular for university campus buildings, performance art venues, libraries, government buildings, and corporate offices throughout the United States. Paul Rudolph was a leading proponent of the style as seen in his Yale Art and Architecture Building (1958). Due to American enthusiasm for the style, European architects adopted the style in their major commissions; Le Corbusier with Oscar Niemeyer, Wallace Harrison, and Max Abramovitz designed the United Nations Headquarters (1948-52), and Marcel Breuer worked with a number of American architectural teams to design Boston City Hall (1963-68).