In 1933 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, he passed a series of documents called the New Deal. These documents were created in hope to push recovery in America and pull it out of the Great Depression. This New Deal supplied workers with jobs by creating government funded works projects to help better develop the country. Many of these jobs were specifically directed to artists. Before this time never before in history have artists been considered "workers". But because of the New Deal, many new programs were created in hope to promote and fund the arts, by doing so it helped to improve the society as a whole. This new sudden burst in art shifted the attitude in America as art was used as a tool by the government. It was used
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They are human beings. They have to live” (Work). For the first time the federal government began funding Artists from all over the country in hope that they will help to promote the programs with art and other forms of propaganda. This way the people of America were informed of all that the government is trying to do to help. While, with the creation of these programs by the government a sudden burst in artistic prosperity occurred, forever leaving a footprint in American culture during the period of the Great Depression (A New Deal). The government at the time of the New Deal used the art as a way to enforce a message to all of American society. By using art as a tool to promote a “working” attitude, the government was able to give jobs to artists to promote jobs for the rest of the nation, overall helping some of the economical oppression in America. The artists embraced that idea, creating landscapes and skylines of cities, painting people working in mills, coal mines, on railroads and any other scenes of Americans working hard. The “American scene” became the biggest job for artists to promote and portray into all of their pieces of work (Adler). By using art as a way to promote the New Deal, Roosevelt managed to showcase to society exactly what he is doing in attempt to improve the United States, while improving specifically the living conditions of artists in the
They are human beings. They have to live” (Work). For the first time the federal government began funding Artists from all over the country in hope that they will help to promote the programs with art and other forms of propaganda. This way the people of America were informed of all that the government is trying to do to help. While, with the creation of these programs by the government a sudden burst in artistic prosperity occurred, forever leaving a footprint in American culture during the period of the Great Depression (A New Deal). The government at the time of the New Deal used the art as a way to enforce a message to all of American society. By using art as a tool to promote a “working” attitude, the government was able to give jobs to artists to promote jobs for the rest of the nation, overall helping some of the economical oppression in America. The artists embraced that idea, creating landscapes and skylines of cities, painting people working in mills, coal mines, on railroads and any other scenes of Americans working hard. The “American scene” became the biggest job for artists to promote and portray into all of their pieces of work (Adler). By using art as a way to promote the New Deal, Roosevelt managed to showcase to society exactly what he is doing in attempt to improve the United States, while improving specifically the living conditions of artists in the