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)
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The Important Artists and Works of American Art
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Content: Boldly colored and outlined without modeling or shading, folk art portrayals were often intimate, depicting the sitter with a few objects that were of personal significance. Beginning his career as limner, Edward Hicks became famous for his The Peaceable Kingdom (1829-31), a work that expressed his Quaker values in a dynamic folk style. Folk art also drew upon African American traditions; in the 1880s Harriet Powers, a former slave, began exhibiting her quilts, depicting powerful narratives in bold color and geometric forms and patterns. American Architecture
After the Revolutionary War, when the young nation was building its identity, early American architecture drew from British and Neoclassical architecture. Based on the work and theory of the Venetian Renaissance architect, Andrea Palladio, Neoclassicism was the dominant architectural style in 18 th- century Europe. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was also an innovative architect, and his design for Monticello (1772-1809), his home in Virginia, exemplified the Neoclassical style, employing a Palladian portico with four colored columns. During his Presidency, his ideas also informed Benjamin Henry Latrobe's designs of the U.S. Capitol building, launching what became known as the Federal style, favored for official buildings. Developing around 1830 within the context of Neoclassicism, Beaux-Arts architecture rejected Neoclassicism's formality to incorporate elements from Renaissance, Baroque, and Late Gothic architecture. In the United States, the Beaux-Arts style, led by Richard Morris Hunt, became known as the "American Renaissance," or "American Classicism."