Early Modern Blog- The influence of The Great Depression
I picked this painting because it shows how hard people worked
and what kind of struggles, they had to go through during the great depression.
This shows both as a teaching tool and as a history of a critical social
movement of the 1930s, a period of dominant government intervention and a time
of rural studies researching that needs and exploitation of the poor
people. In this painting it says that he compared today to the America in the
1920s and 1930s. He was seeing warning signals, such as climate change and
income disparity, that ended in a future depression. I wouldn't want a copy of
this hanging in my home personally but if I were to hang it somewhere I would
definitely hang it in the entryway or the man cave just to show that we're hard
workers as well. 😊 I would
like to compare it to this day and age but then is nowhere near the same as today.
Artist: Grant
Wood
Year: 1930
Type: Oil on
beaverboard
Location: Art
Institute of Chicago
I chose this painting because these two give me the feeling of discipline and how important it was to prepare for anything. This painting is another iconic work from the Great Depression. It depicts an American farmer and his daughter standing in front of their home. It is now recognized as a masterpiece of American art. Grant Wood's best-known work is his 1930 painting American Gothic, which is also one of the most famous paintings in American art history. This painting was meant to be a satire of repression and narrow-mindedness of rural small-town life. I would love a copy of this painting in my home not only because it's super famous but because discipline and respect for yourself and others is a huge thing in my home. It's like if you were not mean, strict, and disciplined you did not make it, you died.
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Artist: BEN
SHAHN
Year: (1898-1969).
Type: TEMPERA ON PAPER
Location:
LAID ON MASONITE
I chose this painting because you could tell by the
expressions on their face that they're dealing with something very important
and meaningful in their lives. You can feel there were and concern during the
great depression. There was something very haunting about the picture with its
great sense of realism and I had to learn more. Ben Shahn was
at the forefront of the American Social Realist art movement of the 1930s. The works are a pictorial criticism of
the social environment that brought about these conditions. Social Realism has
its roots back in the mid-19th century and the Realist movement in French
art. I would love a copy of the “unemployment”
and I will probably hang it in my son's bedroom, he walked by and glanced at my
computer and said, “cool picture.”
File:Unemployment, Ben Shahn.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
American Gothic | The Art Institute of Chicago (artic.edu)
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