Week 7: 1917-35 Part 3: Realism and Regionalism in the US by Andrea Kulas https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux en-us 2022-03-01 01:13:48 UTC 2025-09-24 09:03:47 UTC hello@padlet.com OFFICE HOURS rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/1991321954 Risa Puleo / rpuleo@saic.edu  
Tuesdays, 10-11 AM and by appt. 

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Wednesdays, 1-2 PM 

Amanda Mendelsohn / amendelsohn@saic.edu
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]]> 2022-01-13 22:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/1991321954 PAPER PREP #7: COLOR, MOOD, TONE rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092338890 Visit your selected artwork and spend 15 minutes just looking at it. What do you see that you haven't before?

In your journal, focus your writing on: What COLORS did the artist use to compose the artwork? What are the effects of that color palette? Do the colors create a MOOD or TONE? How and why? Ex. Is the blue of sky pastel and serene or dark and stormy? How does color help the artist achieve what they want to communicate in the artwork?

]]> 2022-03-13 13:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092338890 BP: How is Pollock's Primitivism different that Picasso's? rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092342511 2022-03-13 13:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092342511 BPQ 4 rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092346228 We've seen white American, like Robert Henri and Thomas Hart Benton, artists represent African-Americans and the black experience in the US. Compare these versions to how artists of The Harlem Renaissance chose to represent their own experiences. ]]> 2022-03-13 14:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092346228 BPQ 1 rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092395909 Why and how did the Ashcan School establish their artistic voices in relation to or in rejection of European trends?

]]> 2022-03-13 15:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092395909 LOOKING rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092396459 How is American Realism different than Social Realism in Russia and Mexico?


]]> 2022-03-13 15:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092396459 LOOKING rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092396631 How is American Realism different than Social Realism in Russia and Mexico?

]]> 2022-03-13 15:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092396631 Artist's Intention vs Viewer's Reception rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092397381 In the era of its creation, Grant Wood's American Gothic was in the middle of a battle between intention and reception. The artist intended the painting to be a celebration of the American heartland. Viewers in big cities like Chicago saw it as a satire of the rural. What do you see? Do the artist's intentions for the painting influence how you view it? Should the artist's intentions always determine the interpretation of a painting? even when times, cultural beliefs, change?]]> 2022-03-13 15:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092397381 Artist's Intention vs Viewer's Reception rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092404070 Thomas Hart Benton intended his paintings of Southern sharecroppers to portray the black experience with the dignity of endurance against the racist systems they were trapped in. His critics thought his art wasn't enough and criticized him for not doing more, like being involved in anti-racist causes. What do you think? Do you think Benton's paintings romanticize the black experience in the US? Is art a vehicle in and of itself to promote change? If so, what kind of change can Benton's paintings help viewers make? If not, why not?]]> 2022-03-13 15:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092404070 Artist's Intention vs Viewer's Reception rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092405381 Many of Georgia O'Keefe's male critics made assumptions that her paintings of flowers were references to the female anatomy. In response she said: “Well, “I made you take time to look at what I saw, and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower, and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower—and I don’t.” What do you think? ]]> 2022-03-13 15:17:57 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092405381 LOOKING rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092407446 Compare and contrast Thomas Eakins painting, Gross Clinic to the Monet's Impressions Sunrise. Both were made only two years apart!]]> 2022-03-13 15:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092407446 BPQ 2 rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092407763 Why and how did the artists involved with the Stieglitz Circle establish their artistic voices in relation to or in rejection of European trends?

]]> 2022-03-13 15:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092407763 Artist's Intention vs. Viewer's Reception rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092412704 The artists of the Ashcan School intended to shine a light on the harsh realities of being poor and working class in New York City. But because they didn't belong to the groups that they painted, their paintings often involved stereotypes of different backgrounds (Luks) or else reduced people to examples of different types (Henri). From the journalistic "objective" distance they employed,  did they have the possibility to paint anything other than caricatures or ethnic types? What do you think? (Read more about Henri's ethnic types by clicking the link).]]> 2022-03-13 15:27:18 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2092412704 THINKING amende51 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096775524 What role does realism play in the Ashcan School? How is it uniquely American? What does it mean to create a uniquely American style? ]]> 2022-03-15 21:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096775524 LOOKING amende51 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096776320 Pick a painting by 2 different Ashcan School artists and compare and contrast them. What do the similarities and differences tell us about the Ashcan School as a group/movement? ]]> 2022-03-15 21:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096776320 THINKING/LOOKING amende51 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096776749 What influence did journalism have on the work of the Ashcan School? Support your answer with artistic examples. ]]> 2022-03-15 21:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096776749 THINKING amende51 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096780471 How does the Stieglitz Circle differ from the Ashcan School? How did they aim to also create a uniquely American style? Which feels more successful to you, and why? ]]> 2022-03-15 21:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096780471 THINKING/LOOKING amende51 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096781141 How was the Stieglitz Circle influenced by Precisionism? Support your answer with artistic examples. ]]> 2022-03-15 21:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096781141 LOOKING amende51 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096782024 What similarities do you see in the photographic versus non-photographic works of the Stieglitz Circle? What differences? Choose a specific piece for each. ]]> 2022-03-15 21:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096782024 THINKING amende51 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096786658 How does government sponsorship affect artistic expression? Can you have freedom of expression while working for a public patron? Why or why not? ]]> 2022-03-15 21:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096786658 LOOKING amende51 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096787598 Why do you think Dorothea Lange and Walker Evan's photos are so iconic? Why did they have such an enduring and lasting affect? What are the similarities and differences between them? Do you prefer one over the other? ]]> 2022-03-15 21:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096787598 READING amende51 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096788056 Do you agree with the argument established in the Harrison and Wood reading? Why or why not? ]]> 2022-03-15 21:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2096788056 Forest Young on Paul Cadmus rpuleo2 https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2335331762 2022-10-11 13:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/akulas/xrak194wuy5w3cux/wish/2335331762