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American regionalism

Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, Art Institute of Chicago,

Chicago, IL

Grant Wood, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931,

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY

American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals,
lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in
the Midwest and Deep South. It arose in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regionalism_(art)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Wood

https://www.theartstory.org/movement-american-regionalism-artworks.htm#pnt_1
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Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a Russian-French painter of Jewish
origin.[1] Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris.

exhibition The Origins and Development of International Independent Art held at

the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in 1937 in Paris, where he was at last hailed
as a great painter.

Girl at Fence 1937 Portrait of a Child 1939

Style: Expressionism

From 1930 to 1935, the interior designer Madeleine Castaing and her husband welcomed him to their
summer home, the mansion of Lèves, becoming his patrons, so that Soutine could hold his first
exhibition in Chicago in 1935. He seldom showed his works, but he did take part in the important
exhibition The Origins and Development of International Independent Art held at the Galerie nationale
du Jeu de Paume in 1937 in Paris, where he was at last hailed as a great painter. Soon afterwards
France was invaded by German troops. As a Jew, Soutine had to escape from the French capital and
hide in order to avoid arrest by the Gestapo.

Woman Entering the Water (1931)

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-soutine-chaim-artworks.htm#pnt_6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Soutine
3. Yves Tanguy was a French surrealistpainter.

Promontory Palace1931 – trip to africa

In December 1930, at an early screening of Buñuel and Dali's L'Age d'Or, right-wing activists went
to the lobby of the cinema where the film was being screened, and destroyed art works by Dalí,
Joan Miró, Man Ray, Tanguy, and others.

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/4033

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Tanguy#1930s
4. L'Age d'Or (French: L'Âge d'Or, pronounced [lɑʒ dɔʁ]), commonly translated as The Golden Age or
Age of Gold, is a 1930 French surrealist satirical comedy film directed by Luis Buñuel about the
insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society and the value system
of the Roman Catholic Church. The screenplay is by Salvador Dalí and Buñuel.[1] L'Age d'Or was one
of the first sound films made in France, along with Prix de Beauté and Under the Roofs of Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Age_d%27Or
5. degenerate

Beginning during 1937 about twenty thousand works from German museums were confiscated as
"degenerate" by a committee directed by Joseph Goebbels.[6]:375 Although the German press had
once "swooned over him", the new German authorities now made a mockery of Chagall's art,
describing them as "green, purple, and red Jews shooting out of the earth, fiddling on violins, flying
through the air ... representing [an] assault on Western civilization".[6]:376

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Chagall#The_Bible_illustrations

nazi campaign against the modern art

6. guernica picasso

https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/4528/releases/MOMA_1970_J
uly-December_0047_107.pdf

https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/1751/releases/MOMA_1953_0
081_70.pdf

https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/891/releases/MOMA_1943_00
43_1943-07-26_43726-40.pdf
7. Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman,
printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both
the term and the movement.[1] In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue
Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism.

self portrait Max Beckmann Self-portrait with Horn, 1938–1940

His fortunes changed with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, whose dislike of Modern Art quickly led
to its suppression by the state. In 1933, the Nazi government called Beckmann a "cultural
Bolshevik"[5] and dismissed him from his teaching position at the Art School in Frankfurt.[4] In 1937
the government confiscated more than 500 of his works from German museums, putting several on
display in the notorious Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich.[6] The day after Hitler's radio speech
about degenerate art in 1937, Beckmann left Germany with his second wife, Quappi, for The
Netherlands.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beckmann
8. Ben shahn _ photographer of the great drepression

Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best
known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures
published as The Shape of Content.

Shahn's subsequent series of California labor leader Tom Mooney won him the recognition of Diego
Rivera.[2] In May and June 1933, he served as an assistant to Diego Rivera while Rivera executed the
Rockefeller Center mural. Shahn had a role in fanning the controversy, by circulating a petition
among the workers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shahn#World_War_II_and_beyond