* understand how changes in 1960s society * understand why artists reacted against * have examined the reasons for the * be able to analyse a Pop Art work
influenced art Abstract Expressionism development of Pop Art
* understand the concept of Minimalism * understand how ideas can be works of art * be able to relate Land Art with other
Conceptual Art ideas. Before 1960
American Regionalists Modernist art in America in the early 20th century had been dominated by European developments, which were centred in Paris.
Some painters like Grant Wood, however, deliberately turned their attention back home towards the hard- working rural population of America during the Great Depression. American Gothic (Fig. 17.1) brought him instant fame in 1930.
Figure 17.1 American Gothic, 1930, by Grant Wood, oil on beaverboard, 78 × 65 cm, Art Institute of Chicago. The painting was inspired by 15th-century Flemish Renaissance art, which the artist had seen in Europe in the 1920s.
Note: CHAPTER 17 ART IN AMERICA
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in US
history. It began with the stock market crash of October 1929. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 per cent and more than 5,000 banks had gone out of business.
