American Regionalism
アメリカン・リージョナリズム / 1930–1943 / Style / American Modern Art
Movimiento surgido en la Depresión que rechazó la vanguardia europea para representar de forma realista el campo y el trabajo del Medio Oeste. Colinas ondulantes, figuras estilizadas y una narración transparente se convirtieron en iconografía nacional a través de murales, revistas y sellos. El caso ejemplar de una geografía convertida en estilo.
Composiciones de colinas ondulantes y campos de cultivo / Figuras estilizadas de aire sencillo / Escenas narrativas de lectura inmediata / Colorido dominado por las tierras
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- Usos idóneos
- Civic and cooperative identity for agriculture, regional food and public utilities, where a place has to look as though it belongs to the people who work it · Large-format mural and packaging illustration that must tell its story from across a room
- Tipografía
- A sturdy slab or heavy-stemmed grotesque, set in short declarative lines like a mural caption.
- Composición
- A single figure or task at mid-height, the ground curving behind it in bands, the horizon high and the sky small.
- Material
- Earth pigments of ochre, umber and oxide green, printed on stock warm enough to keep the whites off white.
- Precaución
- Borrowing the rolling fields as nostalgic wallpaper: stripped of the labour that is its actual subject, the style collapses into the folksy pastiche its critics accused it of.
- Para profundizar
- The difference between Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton / Its relation to the public mural programmes / The critique of its nationalism