SLIDE LIST of Art on AMERICAN IDEALS vs REALITY

IDST 2315 -- Magoulick

Main Ideals: Money, opportunity, freedom

Art that focuses on the IDEAL:

            People:

1.   American Gothic, 1930, Grant Wood

2.      Snap the Whip, 1872, Winslow Homer

3.      The Artist in His Studio, J.A. McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

4.      Signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull (1756-1843)

5.      Tourist, 1970, Dian Hanson

6.      The Drifter, 1964, Andrew Wyeth

7.      Plucking Chickens, George Luks (1866-1933)

8.      The Banjo Lesson, 1893, Henry Tanner

9.      Zapatistas,  Jose Orozco (1883-1949) 

Place:

1.      Discovery of America, Salvador Dali (1904-1988)

2.      The Life Line, 1884, Winslow Homer

3.      Yellowstone, Wyoming (personal slide)

4.      Williamstown, 1946, Grandma Moses

5.      Christina’s World, Andrew Wyeth (born 1917)

6.      Young Corn, 1931, Grant Wood

7.      Monticello, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Charlottesville, VA

Art that focuses on the IDEAL:

Place:

1.      The City, from Greenwich Village, 1922, John Sloan

2.      Under the El, 1942, Jack Levine

3.      Rush Hour, New York, 1915, Max Weber

4.      Chinese Restaurant, 1915, Max Weber

5.      Brooklyn Bridge, 1917, Joseph Stella

6.      Broadway, 1936, Mark Tobey

7.      The City, 1919, Fernand Leger

8.      The City Rises, 1910-11, Umberto Boccioni

9.      Vacant Lot, 1939, Ben Shahn

10.  New York City I, 1942, Piet Mondrian 

People:

11.  Employment Agency, 1937, Isaac Soyer

12.  Willis Avenue Bridge, 1940, Ben Shahn

13.  City Activities, 1930-31, Thomas Hart Benton

14.  Negroes on Rockaway Beach, 1934, Reginald Marsh

15.  The Abundant Life, 1950, Jack Levine

16.  The Bowery, Reginald March (1898-1954)

17.  Man and Machinery, 1932 (north wall, Detroit Institute of Art), Diego Rivera

18.  .The Wrestlers, 1905, George Luks

19.  Refugees, 1937, William Gropper