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20th Century
Jacob Lawrence1917 – 2000best-known twentieth
century African American painter
Migration Series made him nationally famous in 1941
Series depicts the great move north of blacks during the Great Depression
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/odonnell/w1010/edit/migration/migration.html
http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/meet/index.html
The Migration of the Negro, panel 1, 1940-41. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm). The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.Artwork © Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation
Questions to Answer
1)Why are these people leaving? 2)Where are they coming from and where are they going?3)When is the migration taking place?4)What happens in the next picture?5)What kind of events or conditions make it so that people emigrate or immigrate?
How does Lawrence used line, shape, color , and space to explore symbolism?
Andy Warhol and Pop ArtOnce you “got” Pop, you could never
see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
--Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol1928-1987Famous artist of the Pop Art
Movement:Pop artists used the everyday and
made it art by using bold, flat colors to portray goods
Warhol appropriated (used without permission) images from magazines, newspapers, and press photos of the most popular celebrities of the time
His studio was name “The Factory,” to reflect goods that were massed produced
Georgia O’Keefe: Blazing a Trail for WomenBorn on 1887 in Sun
Prairie, Wisconsin. Died in 1986.
From a very young age, she said she would be an artist.
Painted until she lost her eyesight completely.
Distinctly American- she did not care what was going on in European Art.
Perhaps the most influential female artist of the 20th century.
O’Keefe in Flowers Characteristics of Work:
Painted giant, detailed, almost surreal paintings of flowers
Innovative in using brilliant, bold colors with simple patterns and shapes.
Examples of influences in her work:She painted large, bright
flowers.Some considered her
work controversial and sexual.
“I have painted what each flower is to me and I have painted it big enough so that others would see what I see.”Hibiscus with Plumeria
Black Iris
O’Keefe- Ghost Ranch PeriodO’Keefe went to Taos, New
Mexico and the Ghost Ranch in 1930.
Characteristics of Work: She fell in love with the
barrenness and expanse of the unspoiled land, and created almost mythical images of them as she loved to see them: uninterrupted and spoiled by humans.
She loved the feeling of the country’s symbols: life as a struggle, sadness, and resurrection.
Examples of Influences in work: She painted landscapes that
showed absolutely no human influence. Lake George
O’Keefe- “Bones” PeriodCharacteristics of Work:
Bones symbolized the wild, wonderful nature of the west.
Cow skulls especially showed her audience the untamed, beautiful nature of the desert west.
More surreal style.Examples of Influences in
work:She painted animal skulls in
the works. Also, as in this case, the animal skull is floating in the air (not possible in real life, so it’s surreal).
Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills
Dorothea Lange1895 – 1965- American who was
an influential documentary photographer and photojournalist
She was concerned with people and their situations, appreciated the ordinary.
She first photographed documentary images of Native Americans in the west in the 1920s.
In 1931, she was hired by the Farm Security Administration to photograph and document the migrant farmers and workers who were forced to move between of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.
Migrant MotherThis photograph shows
a Migrant mother working at a pea-pickers camp in California, living in a make-shift tent, looking longingly into the distance.
This is an icon of the Great Depression.
Japanese Relocation Camps