L’aria di cambiamenti sociali, politici e culturali che ha percorso l'America del Novecento si lascia respirare e rivivere attraverso prints of the greatest engravers of the American century, beginning with John Sloan and the Ashcan School in New York and ending with the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock. E 'urban realism Sloan opened the exhibition with a series of prints on a forgotten New York, on weekends when the roofs of the skyscrapers crowding of tenants who, lying on sheets and blankets, sunbathing ( Sunbathes on the Roof, Roofs, Summer Night, 1906).
common buildings, those who do not deign to look on the way to work, become the subject of many prints of Lawrence Kaupferman. The reversal of perspective is curious. The buildings and buildings ignored day after day are the protagonists of prints Kaupferman regaining solid solemnity to what was already there before I was born and there will be again when you have finished your time on earth. The human presence is rare in his work and, on the edge of the stage, are never anything more than the extras ( Boston Street).
The recordings of Edward Hopper and Martin Lewis have a different point of view and still want to recreate the thread of tension that surrounds the subject for a moment just before or after the occurrence of an event. The psychological insight, the disturbance, shall be made through a skilful use of light and contrasts between areas of complete darkness and other brightly lit. (M. Lewis, Little Penthouse , 1931)
And then modernism, the Depression, industrialization, World War II. Bringing about America. More and more people leave the big city to find livelihoods in rural areas. Thomas Hart Bentos, a teacher of Jackson Pollock, documents this time putting his art in the service of important social issues. Unemployment on the rise vertigionosa, the laborers who, after finishing distances of miles and miles looking for work fell exhausted, in the cold nights in the camps without shelter.
Adolf Dehn offers an image of America in the Thirties still different. E 'America, who plays jazz and dancing broke out and the premises of Haarlem. Couples of color are found in places where you play this new music genre that takes itself far echo of a distant, melancholy hard everyday but also the lightness of a smiling dance with knees bent, as in The Swing dance bands .
not to miss: the glamor of Martin Lewis immortalizes one morning in one of the main streets of London, probably in Oxford Street which, lit by the rising sun, a small army of women elegant nei loro cappotti dai colli di pelliccia cammina velocemente verso i department store dove lavorano. ( Quarter of Nine, Saturday’s children , 1929).
Quando
fino al 7 settembre 2008
Dove
British Museum
London
Admission
Free
fino al 7 settembre 2008
Dove
British Museum
London
Admission
Free
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