Visual art of The United States and/or American art encompasses the history of painting and visual art in the United States. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style based mainly on Western painting and European arts. A parallel development taking shape in rural America was the American craft movement, which began as a reaction to the industrial revolution.
Developments in modern art in Europe came to America from exhibitions in New York City such as the Armory Show in 1913. After World War II, New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world. Since then many American movements have shaped Modern and Postmodern art. Art in the United States today covers a huge range of styles.
During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s painters as powerful and influential as Adolph Gottlieb, Phillip Guston, Lee Krasner, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn, Josef Albers, Elmer Bischoff, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Sam Francis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Joan Mitchell, Friedel Dzubas, Paul Jenkins and younger artists like Brice Marden, Robert Mangold, Sam Gilliam, Sean Scully, Elizabeth Murray, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Susan Rothenberg, Ross Bleckner, Richard Tuttle, Julian Schnabel, Peter Halley, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Eric Fischl and dozens of others produced vital and influential paintings.
A few American artists of note include: Ansel Adams, Maxine Albro, John James Audubon, Thomas Hart Benton, Albert Bierstadt, Alexander Calder, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Edwin Church, Chuck Close, Thomas Cole, Robert Crumb, Edward S. Curtis, Henry Darger, Richard Diebenkorn, Thomas Eakins, Shepard Fairey, Jules Feiffer, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Marsden Hartley, Al Hirschfeld, Hans Hofmann, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jack Kirby, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Dorothea Lange, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, John Marin, Agnes Martin, Anna Mary Robertson Moses, Nampeyo, Jackson Pollock, Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, Mark Rothko, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Frank Stella, Gilbert Stuart, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Andrew Wyeth.
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hughes is hyper intelligent but the host is incredibly dull.
self enclosed without being successfully introspective. there it is.
"What they would like their ancestral history to be" …I'd like to hear his thoughts on the role of American regionalism in the success or failure of capitalism/ democracy in, well, modern times….also his theories on why and how the Mona Lisa got famous. I often wonder about that.
What a charming person. This is gold. Thank you so much, I can't wait to learn more about him and read his books.
There are a few numbered moments in ones life remembered as profoundly tragic, and painful. For me they are the deaths of my parents, my brother, the assassinations of the John, and Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, among others, and the premature death of the great Robert Hughes. There are a few people who affect your psyche, and your world view the way he did for me. He was a beehive of intellectual energy, a mans man, a sharp wit, profound thinker, and so appropriately irreverent at all the right moments. He was the greatest art critic of my life time, and the greatest critic of American society for which we should all be eternally grateful. He had a mind like a steel trap, and an honesty that sets him widely apart from the esoteric world of the business of art, and most mere mortals. I will miss him terribly. It's a great loss to the world.
top man. i remember shock of the new, it was a total education to me and it's effect was subtle but deep. he did get to write his book about Goya and, as you might expect, it's brillaint. there is also some tv stuff he did about caravagio which is well worth your time.