American Regionalism

アメリカン・リージョナリズム / 1930–1943 / Style / American Modern Art

대공황기 미국에서 유럽 아방가르드를 거부하고 중서부의 농촌과 노동을 사실적으로 그린 운동. 굽이치는 구릉과 양식화된 인물, 명쾌한 이야기성이 벽화와 잡지, 우표를 통해 국민적 도상이 되었다. 지역성을 양식으로 만든 전형적인 예.

굽이치는 구릉과 농지의 구도 / 양식화된 소박한 인물 / 명쾌한 이야기 장면 / 흙빛을 기조로 한 채색

사전 항목

적합한 용도: 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
타이포그래피: A sturdy slab or heavy-stemmed grotesque, set in short declarative lines like a mural caption.
구성: A single figure or task at mid-height, the ground curving behind it in bands, the horizon high and the sky small.
재료: Earth pigments of ochre, umber and oxide green, printed on stock warm enough to keep the whites off white.
주의: 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.
더 읽을거리: The difference between Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton / Its relation to the public mural programmes / The critique of its nationalism