Regionalism

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Regionalism was an American art movement of the 1930s that emphasized realistic depictions of rural life and local landscapes, particularly in the Midwest.

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Regionalism canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American art movement
art movement
aim to celebrate local and regional identities
to create a distinctly American art
artStyle realism
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizedBy Abstract expressionism
surface form: Abstract Expressionists
criticizedFor conservative aesthetics
perceived provincialism
declinePeriod late 1940s
field painting
visual arts
genre American Regionalism
surface form: American Scene Painting
hasCharacteristic clear representational forms
emphasis on local color and detail
narrative compositions
hasNotableProponent Grant Wood
John Steuart Curry
Thomas Hart Benton
hasNotableWork A Social History of the State of Missouri
American Gothic
Baptism in Kansas
inception 1930s
influenced later American realist painters
influencedBy 19th-century American realism
folk art
narrative painting traditions
language English
mainRegion Midwestern United States
surface form: American Midwest

Midwestern United States
medium mural painting
painting
movementFocus realistic depictions of local landscapes
realistic depictions of rural life
opposedTo American urban modernism
Modernism
surface form: European modernism
partOf American Regionalism
surface form: American Scene Painting
politicalContext response to industrialization
response to the Great Depression
response to urbanization
supportedBy New Deal
surface form: New Deal art programs

Works Progress Administration
surface form: Works Progress Administration art projects
timePeriod Great Depression
surface form: Great Depression era
typicalSubject American heartland landscapes
agricultural labor
farm scenes
local history
rural American life
small-town life

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American Gothic movement Regionalism
Grant Wood movement Regionalism
Young Corn creatorMovement Regionalism