ARTH 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Quilting, John Lewis Krimmel, Harriet Beecher Stowe
28 Feb 2017
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Abolitionist movement and civil war influence of european and dutch painting in north american art. Interest in scientific inquiry once an artist arrives in an area followed by professionalism of the visual arts, leading to academic institutions + poetic license. Late 19th century begins with the scientific inquiry. By mid 20th century there is a gradual emergence of iconic paintings that represent a place. Are the primary colonizers of the americas. Academic artistic traditions had a similarity to what was traditionally expected of so(cid:272)iety"s idea of a (cid:862)great pai(cid:374)ter(cid:863) Paint was a primary medium for all artists. For example, sculpture/illustration/etc. are not spoken about a lot at this time in the visual arts. After the mid 20th century, the avant-garde is a development of rejection of colonial ideals of (cid:449)hat (cid:449)as (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered to (cid:271)e (cid:862)fi(cid:374)e art(cid:863) Is more personal to the individual artist and country. Allows one to map the difference between the nation state.
