Mary Blair the Legend (Mary Blair, Concept of Alice Looking at the Rabbit’s house ,ca 1951, gouache, 10.94 x11x0.06 in(27.94 x0.16cm) Mary Blair was born Oklahoma and moved out to San Jose when She was 7, and won a scholarship to Chouinard Art institute in Los Angeles, where she graduated from Chouinard in 1933.She met her husband Lee(Les). E Blair there. Mary and Les made a great team at their stay at Disney.…
This resulted in problems including, bank failure, unemployment, and the economy crashing. FDR and others were then forced to try to solve these problems, so they created the New Deal. One of the major problems of the Great Depression was unemployment. Finding a job was merely impossible and earning high wages was even more scarce.…
The average American, lured by the promise of luxurious lifestyles and freedom, could not escape. Once inside the grasp of opportunity, it certainly did not let go. Many jobs and daily tasks assumed new meanings in the likeness of the Great Depression. A means of allowing even the truly unfortunate to begin again. This new means was created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt; the New Deal.…
Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in response to the beginning of the Great Depression, the Great Depression started on October 29, 1929. The Stock Market crashed and millions of Americans lost their jobs and had to live on the streets desperately searching for jobs with little hope of being accepted into a new job. Nearly 15 million Americans were unemployed and almost half of the country’s banks have failed. Franklin D. Roosevelt helped ease the matter of the Great Depression in the 1930’s by his administration passing legislation that aimed to stabilize industrial and agricultural production. It helped create jobs and stimulate recovery of the nation so the people would not have to live in poverty.…
From the 1930s through the 1940s the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression. The Great Depression placed the US into severe economic instability just before World War II, leaving 3.2 million people unemployed. Soon after Franklin Roosevelt’s win against Herbert Hoover in the 1932 presidential election, his inauguration allowed for many changes to begin within the government. Roosevelt created something called the “New Deal,” which incorporated the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The FSA was a government run program which created many jobs for photographers to document American rural poverty through pictures.…
The Group of Seven was a group of Canadian landscape painters, from 1920-1933. The Group of Seven was a group of painters known for their paintings of the Canadian landscape which rejected realism and incorporated bold strokes and heavy paint. The Canadian Group of Painters' policy was "to encourage and foster the growth of art in Canada which has a national character." And I believe this is a motto, that has truly aided with the Great Depression, because encouraging art, to me, is just like encouraging happiness, encouraging color and a chance to see something from a different perspective, and art is a very powerful concept thus in a sense having the ability to change or stabilize your mood.…
After the end of World War I, Americans began to feel a distinct lack of national identity. They felt disconnected from their past and were unsure where the future was taking them. Compared to their European counterparts with their long and rich history full of art and literature, Americans felt that their country was inferior and provincial. A call to restore the American pride rose from the ranks of writers and artists, demanding the creation of a new history of the United States, one that would provide a worthy foundation of people, places, and events for American artists to draw inspiration from. They responded enthusiastically, excited to shake off the chains of worldly influence and forge ahead to create a new identity for America filled…
The 1930s on the other hand was a decade plagued by the Great Depression. Many Americans were forced to give up the many luxuries that were making life so much easier. America returned to a more traditional society as women were forced out of their jobs so that men could take their place. Unemployment reached an all-time high so many women found themselves back at home. Society became much more conservative with the less leisure time.…
During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt implemented the New Deal in order to provide aid programs to relief, recover, and reform the United States. One such aid program was called the Federal Arts Program, which provided “relief in the form of money to artists who produced works of art such as posters, sculptures, tapestries, and murals for the federal government” (Brown & Shannon 176). Indeed, hundreds of artists painted murals in post offices around the country depicting the community’s everyday lives. In order to advance the New Deal’s political agenda, many artists emphasized the power of collective work by highlighting an increase in America’s productivity through the work of corporations, innovation, and job creation caused by…
During the years of World War II, the United States of America was faced with the Great Depression, economic depression, domestic and foreign crisis. The 32nd president of the United States was Franklin D. Roosevelt, nicknamed “FDR”, guided the nation to recovery through a consequential time in American history, with his combination of confidence, optimism, and political background. In his twelve years of being president, FDR aided bringing the country back to a better state. In the year 1937, FDR said his “Quarantine Speech” in which he wanted isolation for the country and also in 1941, FDR delivered his State of the Union address to Congress in regards to his vision for a postwar world founded on four basic human freedoms: freedom of speech,…
Rockwell’s paintings are distributed all over the world. His paintings describe different people and situations. I recently viewed different paintings by Rockwell, although some had the some had the same message that was portrayed. Artists normally have similarities between pictures, but Rockwell pictures stand out more because they express extreme realism. After browsing I noticed that Rockwell is very creative and talented.…
The Great Depression The Great Depression of the 1930’s plunged the American people into an economic crisis unlike any endured in the country before or since. This time period of limited economic growth was caused by a few main factors. Because these certain factors happened, american life was vastly changed until the recovery in the late 1930’s. Though economists are not completely sure why the Great Depression happened, a few key factors do stand out as specifically influencing the economy 's great downturn.…
A growth in political movements, attempts at social reform and strikes by the population trying to establish a sense of identity contributed to the turmoil that overwhelmed the United States during the Great Depression (1929-1938). Many artists who were infuriated by the events became social activists through their art. Among them, was Ben Shahn (1898-1969), an artist whose Jewish family fled Lithuania in 1906 and settled in Brooklyn, N.Y. In the 1920’s, Shahn became part of the social realism movement.…
Relief, recovery, and reform of the economy were the main reasons the New Deals were created The First New Deal was a top-down plan, like Progressivism, that Roosevelt made involving the banks and businesses. His plan was to sit them down and agree upon prices. This received mixed results and while part of it helped the depression was still a major issue that needed to be solved quickly. The Second New…
Given the presence of photographic approaches and documentary evidence in the 1930’s, it seems as if the events of the Great Depression took place in black and white. Artists were forced to react to the changing times, or risk losing their job. In response, the 1930’s became a time of documentary photography and expression. Artists began to explore alternate routes of showcasing their talents, all with the intention of revealing the reality that was the Great Depression. Seeing this new opportunity, the government began getting involved with the photography aspect.…