The New American Art
 

Images Surfacing

Bacchanale
Highest praise given to Krasner by Hofmann: "this painting is so good you'd never know it was done by a woman."
 
 
Image Surfacing sold at auction in 2004 for $153,000
In 2006, a work by Pollock from the same era was purchased privately for $140 million, making it the most expensive painting at the time
Lee Krasner. Image Surfacing. c. 1945.
Brach, Paul. "Lee Krasner: Front and Center." Art in America. February 2001: 90 - 99.
Hans Hofmann.  Bachanale.  1946.
Hess, Barbara. Abstract Expressionism. Koln: Taschen, 2005.
Learning Community #4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Historic Context
1929 - 1941
Great Depression

J. Howard Miller.  Rosie the Riviter.  1942.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rosie_the_Riveter.jpg
1933
Hitler's Nazi Party seizes power - end of Weimar Republic
 
New Deal begins - program of government spending that included two departments (the FSA and the FAP) that employed artists
 

FAP artists received famous salary of $23.86 / week at a time when a Woolworth's clerk earned $11 /week

 
40% of those receiving aide from the FAP were women
1939 - 1945
World War II
 
Largest & deadliest war in history with over 62 million deaths
1941
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1942
Rosie the Riveter character helps increase the number of US women working to 20 million (an increase of 57% from 1940)
 
The average man working in a war-time plant paid $54.65 / week, while women were paid $31.21 / week
1945
First use of the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
http://ushistory10e.blogspot.com/2010/02/women-in-wartime_3006.html
Woman working on the A-31 Vengeance bomber in Tennessee (1943) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosie_the_Riveter_(Vultee)_DS.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lange on Car with Camera

Dorothea Lange off Hwy 101
http://www.dorothealangephotos.com/images/070316201143_dorothea_lange_on_top_of_a_car_LG.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Migrant Mother untouched
Migrant Mother
Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother. 1936.
http://livinginstereo.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/MIgrant%20Mother%20by%20Dorothea%20Lange.jpg
Midweed Pictorial spread using Migrant Mother image.  October 17, 1936.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A Cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Florence and Daughters

Bill Ganzel.  Florence Owens Thompson and her daughters Norma, Katherine and Ruby .  1979.
http://www.ganzelgroup.com/media/ggMigrant.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiroshima aftermath. 1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hiroshima_aftermath.jpg
Victim of Hiroshima nuclear bombing.  1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gisei32.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cologne Cathedral after allied bombing
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/germany/cologne-cathedral-photos/wwii-bombing-cc-gordonr.jpg

Alfred Eisenstaedt.  V.J. Day.  1945.
Marien, Mary Warner.  Photography: A Cultural History.  Second edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After WWII, the U.S. emerged as a powerful world economic, political and cultural leader....

 

J. Howard Miller.  Rosie the Riviter.  1942.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rosie_the_Riveter.jpg

http://www.homedesignfind.com/how-to-tips-advice/17-clever-tips-for-around-the-house/

 

and the women who had been such an integral part of the war effort were told to go home.