John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, c. 1768–70 Benjamin West, The Treaty of Penn with the Indians, 1771–72 Ralph Blakelock, Moonlight, 1885 Winslow Homer,

American Art

John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, c. 1768–70

Benjamin West, The Treaty of Penn with the Indians, 1771–72

Ralph Blakelock, Moonlight, 1885

Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream,

1899,

Kirby Sattler, I am Crow, 1991

John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885–86

Vocabulary

Landscape Portrait To depict, portray To show To illustrate Entitled=named,

title=name Analyze a painting,

interpret a painting To represent To take place in or be set

in To describe character

Theme, subject Abstract Concrete To recognize Reality To exist Painter- artist who

paints (писать) pictures

Refer to

American Art

American Art is not very old, in comparison with art from other countries.

Early American art was very similar to European art.

The first American painters often depicted Revolutionary War scenes.

Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851

Grant Wood

Grant Wood was an American painter from Iowa.

His painting “American Gothic” is very well-known in the United States.

The title of the painting, “American Gothic,” refers to the architectural style of the top (upper) window of the house.

Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930)

American Gothic Parodies

Norman Rockwell

Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator.

 Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades.

The problem we all live with

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist born in Wisconsin in 1887.

She is mainly known for her modernist paintings. These paintings use both abstract and concrete elements.

Concrete means that objects can be recognized. For example, she painted flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes.

Abstract means that the objects or scenes don’t exist in reality or don’t look the way they look in reality.

Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley was an American painter from Maine.

He studied painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He also studied painting in New York.

Are his paintings abstract or concrete?

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Breakfast in Bed

Whistler’s Mother

Subway

Saint Francis Venerating the Crucifix (1595) El Greco

Starry Night(1889)- Vincent Van Gogh

Ivan Tsarevich riding the Gray Wolf  (1889) Viktor Vasnetsov