American Abstract Artists

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Jacob Bronowski was a distinguished scientist who spoke at the Blashfield Address for the American Academy of Art and Letters in 1966. He gave the speech “The Reach of Imagination” to an audience of top class artists and poets. The speech covered the subject of imagination within the human mind. Bronowski opens his speech with,“imagination is a specifically human gift” (193). Not only does this gift belong to artists, poets, and scientists, but to all walks of humankind. Bronowski draws his…

Sing it, Dance it, Write it, Paint it Just like many of the great visionaries of the Harlem Renaissance, Aaron Douglas, one of the leading visual artists of the era, was not born and raised in Harlem. This artistic genius came out of Topeka, Kansas, where he developed an artistic sense of community and isolation. Before Douglas became a “pioneering Africanist” of the Harlem Renaissance, he received his bachelors degree of fine arts at the University of Nebraska, and taught in Missouri…

feeling after viewing Rothko’s work. Her sculpture illustrates a resurrection and birth story, the beginning of any human entering the world for the first time. Together the paintings and sculpture combine to target humans’ basic instincts. These artists strip down our barriers and make us reconnect with our fundamental sensations fear, agony, and…

Bob Dylan’s Lyricism: A Countercultural Perspective Abstract: Bob Dylan, a songwriter, poet and a 2017 Nobel laureate in literature is often portrayed as the guiding spirit of the sixties counterculture. Dylan’s politically committed songs in the 1960’s articulated a vision of society that was radically different from the existing political realities. The paper highlights the cultural resonance of Dylan’s radical lyricism amidst the countercultural era. It depicts the close affiliations that…

having a series on her, and had several of her works up, but this one stood out most of all. Static Variations: Blue x2 (fig. 1) is a highly political piece about the Civil Rights Movement. In order to interpret it one must understand the life of the artist, Terri Priest, and the Civil Rights Movement itself. Terri Priest was born in 1928, in Worcester Massachusetts. She spent her entire life in the area. She grew up on Millbury Street. A child of the depression, Priest’s parents, did not…

Like many people my age, I am an avid listener of music, and rather frequently I look to music (preferably Rap) as a source of guidance or release in times of hardship. There are some infinite songs in the vast realm of music that can perfectly emulate or echo any mood that I might be in, and sometimes the music can actually amplify the feelings I am having like a beam of light though a lens. This power that music potentially holds can be a great tool if used in a constructive and positive sense…

Famous People in the 1920s Douglas Fairbanks - He was an American screenwriter, producer, and actor. He starred in many silent films, such as “Robin Hood” and “The Mark of Zorro”. He was a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and was the host of the Oscars in 1929 (the first). he was often referred to as “The King of Hollywood”, but his career declined after talking was introduced to movies. Charles Lindbergh - An American pilot who flew the first solo , non-stop flight from New York…

together and left its mark on modern literature, and implicit, on poetry. On this period, a great influence over the poetry of the world had the American poets. According to Cary Nelson, the modern American poetry is “unexcelled in its richness, inventiveness, and diversity”, and those characteristic are what makes modern poetry succeed. Some of the American poets (Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound) even come back to Europe and act as mentors for writers from all around the world, other remain home, in…

The Harlem Renaissance (1919-1929) The Harlem Renaissance, originally known as the New Negro Movement, received its’ name from Harlem, a large neighborhood within Manhattan, New York. From 1917-1935, nearly 175,000 African Americans, mainly from the south, turned this neighborhood into the largest concentration of black people in the world. Out of this, came a cultural, social, artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that lit a new black cultural identity. Important Events • The…