1950s Art
The arts were a great way to vent about life and common chaos. From the self-portraits of the thirties to graffiti of the nineties. Art has always been a way to show-case the feelings of the artist and the mindset of the viewer. The war and culture of the forties led into the greatest, and most successful, era in art. The fifties used the historical views to draw and write some of the most interesting art and poetry of the century.
Though the art was spectacular, the historical views were a drastic part of the decade. Allen Ginsberg, a famous poet of the 1950s, called this decade a “dehumanized prison of mainstream values, in which drug addicts, homosexuals, and the poor were defined out of existence in the common consciousness”. Also, the resistance of racism and segregation were flowing through the mainstream of life. Thousands of Americans also lost their jobs, as well as their loved ones, in the anti-communist “Red Scare” of the 1950s. All of these events shaped the art world of this decade. …show more content…
Many artist would “live in this limbo of non-existence.”(The Beat Generation:The Fifties In America; pg. 173). The poets of this era would use a type of poetry called “beat” poetry, where no subject was too prosaic for it. The abstract painting method became popular in this decade; abstract meaning the artist would mean one thing, but the viewer would see something different. These methods were inspired by the crazy political
The arts were a great way to vent about life and common chaos. From the self-portraits of the thirties to graffiti of the nineties. Art has always been a way to show-case the feelings of the artist and the mindset of the viewer. The war and culture of the forties led into the greatest, and most successful, era in art. The fifties used the historical views to draw and write some of the most interesting art and poetry of the century.
Though the art was spectacular, the historical views were a drastic part of the decade. Allen Ginsberg, a famous poet of the 1950s, called this decade a “dehumanized prison of mainstream values, in which drug addicts, homosexuals, and the poor were defined out of existence in the common consciousness”. Also, the resistance of racism and segregation were flowing through the mainstream of life. Thousands of Americans also lost their jobs, as well as their loved ones, in the anti-communist “Red Scare” of the 1950s. All of these events shaped the art world of this decade. …show more content…
Many artist would “live in this limbo of non-existence.”(The Beat Generation:The Fifties In America; pg. 173). The poets of this era would use a type of poetry called “beat” poetry, where no subject was too prosaic for it. The abstract painting method became popular in this decade; abstract meaning the artist would mean one thing, but the viewer would see something different. These methods were inspired by the crazy political