Talk:Visual arts of the United States

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[edit] Categories that are missing

  1. What about Colonial painters ?
  2. What about American Impressionists ?
  3. What about 20th century modern artists of the American West ? Easterners summering or retiring in Sante Fe were not the only modernists making art in the West. MdArtLover 18:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] #What about the 20th Century regionalists ?

In the second half of the 20th century there was a distinct division of imagery between the western and eastern United States, especially between the metropolises of Los Angeles and New York. Just before and during World War II many European artists travelled to New York. But not all. For example the German artists Max Beckmann ended up in St. Louis, and Hans Hoffman in Northern California, while the Armenian artist A. Gorky ended up in New York. The latter, Gorky, was a major influence on the New York Abstract Expressionist School, which included such artists as Pollack, De Kooning, and Rothko. Beckmann is much more appreciated today than ever before. In the west coast we have great, and under appreciated, Bay Area Figurative school, which included David Park, Nathan Olivara, and Elmer Bischoff. Mark Faraday 05:01, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

  1. What about portrait painting ?
  2. What about watercolor ?
  3. What about the great magazine illustrators ?
  4. What about the cowboy/western painters ?
  5. What about liturgical windows and paintings ?
  6. What about illustrated children's books ?
  7. what about comic books and cartoons ?

Each of the above should be a section -- written by someone who knows a lot about it.

--Mountshang 00:02, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Attribution needed

The closing statement, "Perhaps the most influential 20th-century American contribution to world art has been a mocking playfulness, a sense that a central purpose of a new work is to join the ongoing debate over the definition of art itself," is questionable. What American art could be more important or in more profound, mystical earnest than Rothko? Where is the mocking playfulness in Whistler's nocturnes or in his ashy grey portraits? What could be more American or less unserious than Jane Frank's brooding inscapes? MdArtLover 14:12, 20 April 2007 (UTC)