Photographers such as Paul Strand, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, and Walker Evans have documented various aspects of transportation and travel through distinctive photographs. Their images capture vehicles and travelers in ways that communicate ideas about urban life, modernity, and the human experience of navigating the modern world. Effective examples make subtle political statements or find the excitement of motion and technology while addressing how transportation networks shape the human condition.
Norman Rockwell is beyond doubt the most popular painter of the United States of the 20C, not just in America but elsewhere as well. His popularity probably lies in his ability to tell a story, supported by a wealth of details for viewers to discover and his skill to capture moods and expressions. Often his painting is humorous too, the awkwardness of youth, the embarrassment of courting couples, pride in country, history and heritage, reverence, loyalty and compassion. He painted the American Dream. He also has the skills of accuracy and of observation, as the old masters did. Like the Durer, Titan and the Rubens, he is also very successful commercially. Like Michelangelo throughout all his professional career, awarded with many private and public commissions. Like the Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Holbien, he painted the rich and famous. Because of his longevity, he had painted the Boy Scout movement, the technological advances, social developments, the Civil Rights movement and wars of the 20C. Norman Rockwell was demonized by a generation of critics who not only saw him as an enemy of modern art, but of all art. He was an outside the art establishment. The most common criticism of his works is that he chose to depict only the good side of the American experience. This is not altogether true, his works on the Civil Movement, bear witness to that. At times he acted as a social campaigning artist. His used the ordinary American as his subject. He genuinely like people and painted them with benevolent affection. Today a mosaic of one of his painting (Golden Rule, 1961) is hung at the entrance to the Headquarter of the United Nations, in New York. A recognition of his dream of a peaceful world between all races. Using achievements and compare to those achievements made by the old masters, I come see why Norman Rockwell as the greatest American artist of the 20th Century. Centuries from today, his works will still be remembered while others have long been forgotten. This is part of a Powerpoint series on the American painters.
Norman Rockwell - The 20C Great American PainterJerry Daperro
Norman Rockwell is beyond doubt the most popular painter of the United States of the 20C, not just in America but elsewhere as well. His popularity probably lies in his ability to tell a story, supported by a wealth of details for viewers to discover and his skill to capture moods and expressions. Often his painting is humorous too, the awkwardness of youth, the embarrassment of courting couples, pride in country, history and heritage, reverence, loyalty and compassion. He painted the American Dream. He also has the skills of accuracy and of observation, as the old masters did. Like the Durer, Titan and the Rubens, he is also very successful commercially. Like Michelangelo throughout all his professional career, awarded with many private and public commissions. Like the Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Holbien, he painted the rich and famous. Because of his longevity, he had painted the Boy Scout movement, the technological advances, social developments, the Civil Rights movement and wars of the 20C. Norman Rockwell was demonized by a generation of critics who not only saw him as an enemy of modern art, but of all art. He was an outside the art establishment. The most common criticism of his works is that he chose to depict only the good side of the American experience. This is not altogether true, his works on the Civil Movement, bear witness to that. At times he acted as a social campaigning artist. His used the ordinary American as his subject. He genuinely like people and painted them with benevolent affection. Today a mosaic of one of his painting (Golden Rule, 1961) is hung at the entrance to the Headquarter of the United Nations, in New York. A recognition of his dream of a peaceful world between all races. Using achievements and compare to those achievements made by the old masters, I come see why Norman Rockwell as the greatest American artist of the 20th Century. Centuries from today, his works will still be remembered while others have long been forgotten.
A slideshow connected to a lecture of Feminism & Art available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Saisha Grayson-Knoth.
Street Photography an interactive session with Prof. Aloke Kumar on World P...Prof.Aloke Kumar
I am NOT a photographer.
I am a Professor of Communication and visual communication or images forms a sub-text of my study.
Like Mr. Bean who said : I sit in the corner and look at paintings.
I look at photographs. What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment. You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Norman Rockwell is beyond doubt the most popular painter of the United States of the 20C, not just in America but elsewhere as well. His popularity probably lies in his ability to tell a story, supported by a wealth of details for viewers to discover and his skill to capture moods and expressions. Often his painting is humorous too, the awkwardness of youth, the embarrassment of courting couples, pride in country, history and heritage, reverence, loyalty and compassion. He painted the American Dream. He also has the skills of accuracy and of observation, as the old masters did. Like the Durer, Titan and the Rubens, he is also very successful commercially. Like Michelangelo throughout all his professional career, awarded with many private and public commissions. Like the Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Holbien, he painted the rich and famous. Because of his longevity, he had painted the Boy Scout movement, the technological advances, social developments, the Civil Rights movement and wars of the 20C. Norman Rockwell was demonized by a generation of critics who not only saw him as an enemy of modern art, but of all art. He was an outside the art establishment. The most common criticism of his works is that he chose to depict only the good side of the American experience. This is not altogether true, his works on the Civil Movement, bear witness to that. At times he acted as a social campaigning artist. His used the ordinary American as his subject. He genuinely like people and painted them with benevolent affection. Today a mosaic of one of his painting (Golden Rule, 1961) is hung at the entrance to the Headquarter of the United Nations, in New York. A recognition of his dream of a peaceful world between all races. Using achievements and compare to those achievements made by the old masters, I come see why Norman Rockwell as the greatest American artist of the 20th Century. Centuries from today, his works will still be remembered while others have long been forgotten. This is part of a Powerpoint series on the American painters.
Norman Rockwell - The 20C Great American PainterJerry Daperro
Norman Rockwell is beyond doubt the most popular painter of the United States of the 20C, not just in America but elsewhere as well. His popularity probably lies in his ability to tell a story, supported by a wealth of details for viewers to discover and his skill to capture moods and expressions. Often his painting is humorous too, the awkwardness of youth, the embarrassment of courting couples, pride in country, history and heritage, reverence, loyalty and compassion. He painted the American Dream. He also has the skills of accuracy and of observation, as the old masters did. Like the Durer, Titan and the Rubens, he is also very successful commercially. Like Michelangelo throughout all his professional career, awarded with many private and public commissions. Like the Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Holbien, he painted the rich and famous. Because of his longevity, he had painted the Boy Scout movement, the technological advances, social developments, the Civil Rights movement and wars of the 20C. Norman Rockwell was demonized by a generation of critics who not only saw him as an enemy of modern art, but of all art. He was an outside the art establishment. The most common criticism of his works is that he chose to depict only the good side of the American experience. This is not altogether true, his works on the Civil Movement, bear witness to that. At times he acted as a social campaigning artist. His used the ordinary American as his subject. He genuinely like people and painted them with benevolent affection. Today a mosaic of one of his painting (Golden Rule, 1961) is hung at the entrance to the Headquarter of the United Nations, in New York. A recognition of his dream of a peaceful world between all races. Using achievements and compare to those achievements made by the old masters, I come see why Norman Rockwell as the greatest American artist of the 20th Century. Centuries from today, his works will still be remembered while others have long been forgotten.
A slideshow connected to a lecture of Feminism & Art available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Saisha Grayson-Knoth.
Street Photography an interactive session with Prof. Aloke Kumar on World P...Prof.Aloke Kumar
I am NOT a photographer.
I am a Professor of Communication and visual communication or images forms a sub-text of my study.
Like Mr. Bean who said : I sit in the corner and look at paintings.
I look at photographs. What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment. You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
Appendix B: Erin Riggins, “Stateside Modern: Marguerite Zorach and the American Modernists,” Visual Essay Exhibition Project for American Modernism: Alfred Stieglitz’s America, Fall 2017
Street Photography an interactive session with Prof. Aloke Kumar on World P...Prof.Aloke Kumar
In all of art history, it’s a challenge to find a term or a genre name that is as deceptively simple as street photography – this subgenre of photo making proved to be one of the most adaptive and malleable techniques of the last two centuries.
It can still be a valid picture of this kind if it’s taken in a public environment in which one captures shots of by passers and regular surroundings, hunting the exact moment in time when the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
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In this week’s lecture and readings we learn about the modern skyscraper as well as the horizontal growth of the suburban areas. In Le Corbusier book A Contemporary City, it gives us a brief overview of his life. We know that he is a founding father to the modernist movement known as the International style, and that he also entered a competition to plan a “contemporary city of 3 million people,” that did not end up winning. Although he did not win, in this book he describes the leading factors that would contribute to his plan of a contemporary city. Of these factors was this topic of skyscrapers. He states, “The skyscrapers are designed purely for business purposes,” he later discusses how skyscrapers are also capable of housing employees, businesses and hotel sections. We also learned that skyscrapers have essential characteristics that define what a modern skyscraper and how there were certain technological requirements that were needed in order to develop a skyscraper. With regards to the development of skyscrapers, zoning properties were quickly established, which ultimately came to the influence of the aesthetic and visual properties of the city as a whole.
In Widogers publication on The "Solar Eye" of Vision Emergence of the Skyscraper-Viewer in the Discourse on Heights in New York City, 1890-1920 we learned how Alvin Coburn, a photographer, takes his camera upon Madison Square in 1921 from the vantage point of the metropolitan life tower, and creates the first abstraction of a city viewed from above. It is also important because he also discusses how modern skyscrapers correspond to the urban transformation in New York City between the period 1890 and 1920. This then brings about the observation on how periods of social upheaval affect individualism and mass identity, which in turn conditions the way artists and writers define their artistic vision in relation to daily life in the city. He also states that, “The tower on Madison Square Garden and the Metropolitan Life Tower had similar features: they were not fully fledged skyscrapers but rather towers constructed either beside or on top of a block-shaped building.” The author also capitalizes on how this metropolitan lifestyle can alter ones behavior due to the environment that surrounds them.
Post World War Two was the beginning of the housing boom. “The transition from a war to peacetime economy was centered on the mass consumerism, ”According to the lecture. The scarce shortage of material forced designers to develop new ways of building. This then lead to large scale housing production where some of these housing parts were sometimes made up of refashioned tank and airplane parts. This allowed for houses to be produced more efficiently and in bulk. During this transition time between wartime to pe.
In this class, we talk about a few famous cases of modern urban planning, including Haussmann's Paris and Robert Moses's New York. Seaside Florida, the Smart Code and the New Urbanism are also discussed.
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“What is a City?”
Architectural Record (1937)
Lewis Mumford
Editors’ Introduction
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) has been called the United States’ last great public intellectual – that is, a scholar
not based in academia who writes for an educated popular audience. Beginning with the publication of his first
book The Story of Utopias in 1922 and continuing throughout a career that saw the publication of some twenty-
five influential volumes, Mumford made signal contributions to social philosophy, American literary and cultural
history, the history of technology and, preeminently, the history of cities and urban planning practice.
Born in Brooklyn and coming of age at a time when the modern city was reaching a new peak in the history of
urban civilization, Mumford saw the urban experience as an essential component in the development of human
culture and the human personality. He consistently argued that the physical design of cities and their economic
functions were secondary to their relationship to the natural environment and to the spiritual values of human
community. Mumford applied these principles to his architectural criticism for The New Yorker magazine and his
work with the Regional Planning Association of America in the 1920s and 1930s, his campaign against plans to
build a highway through Washington Square in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1950s, and his lifelong
championing of the environmental theories of Patrick Geddes and the Garden City ideals of Ebenezer Howard.
In “What is a City?” – the text of a 1937 talk to an audience of urban planners – Mumford lays out his fundamental
propositions about city planning and the human potential, both individual and social, of urban life. The city, he writes,
is “a theater of social action,” and everything else – art, politics, education, commerce – serve only to make the
“social drama . . . more richly significant, as a stage-set, well-designed, intensifies and underlines the gestures of
the actors and the action of the play.” The city as a form of social drama expressed as much in daily life as in
revolutionary moments – it was a theme and an image to which Mumford would return over and over again. In The
Culture of Cities of 1938, he rhapsodized about the artist Albrecht Dürer witnessing a religious procession in
Antwerp in 1519 that was a dramatic performance “where the spectators were also communicants.” And in “The
Urban Drama” from The City in History of 1961, he reflected on the ways that the social life of the ancient city
established a kind of dramatic dialogue “in which common life itself takes on the features of a drama, heightened
by every device of costume and scenery, for the setting itself magnifies the voice and increases the apparent
stature of the actors.” Mumford was quick to point out that the earliest urban dialogue was really a one-way
“monologue of power” from the king to his cowering subjects. Such an absence of true dialogue, he wrote, was
“bound to have a fat.
Fashionista Chic Couture Maze & Coloring Adventures is a coloring and activity book filled with many maze games and coloring activities designed to delight and engage young fashion enthusiasts. Each page offers a unique blend of fashion-themed mazes and stylish illustrations to color, inspiring creativity and problem-solving skills in children.
Boudoir photography, a genre that captures intimate and sensual images of individuals, has experienced significant transformation over the years, particularly in New York City (NYC). Known for its diversity and vibrant arts scene, NYC has been a hub for the evolution of various art forms, including boudoir photography. This article delves into the historical background, cultural significance, technological advancements, and the contemporary landscape of boudoir photography in NYC.
This document announces the winners of the 2024 Youth Poster Contest organized by MATFORCE. It lists the grand prize and age category winners for grades K-6, 7-12, and individual age groups from 5 years old to 18 years old.
Hadj Ounis's most notable work is his sculpture titled "Metamorphosis." This piece showcases Ounis's mastery of form and texture, as he seamlessly combines metal and wood to create a dynamic and visually striking composition. The juxtaposition of the two materials creates a sense of tension and harmony, inviting viewers to contemplate the relationship between nature and industry.
2. Photographers such as Paul Strand, Jacques-Henri
Lartigue and Walker Evans have recorded aspects
of transport and travelling.Vehicles and travellers
have been captured in distinctive ways. Consider
relevant examples and produce a personal
response.
3. Paul Strand
Wall Street 1915
What strikes you as interesting and/or unusual about this image?
What ideas about city life are communicated to us?
4. Paul Strand From the El 1915
Strand incorporated abstracting
compositional techniques into his
work, marrying the new language of
geometric surface design to his
interest in street life and machine
culture.
Strand's vision of the city often
focuses on the problematic
exchange between the sweep and
rigor of the urban grid with the
human lives that inhabit and pass
through it. From the El is a good
example of this dialectical approach,
with the graphic power of the
ironwork and street shadows
punctuated by the tiny, lone
pedestrian at the upper right. Strand
addresses the effects of the new
urban condition obliquely here,
embedding a subtle political
statement within the formal
structure of the image.
5. Paul Strand From the El 1915
Berenice Abbott
El at Columbus Avenue and Broadway
c. 1935-39
Compare and contrast these images of the transport network in New
York City taken 20 years apart.
6. Paul Strand Wire Wheel 1917
Skyscrapers and machines quintessential symbols of modern
life in the early twentieth century were among Strand's last subjects.
Duchamp and Picabia had
introduced machines into American
art when they arrived in New York
in 1915, and automobiles capable of
going fifty miles an hour were
everywhere. "Just at the present the
sole ambition seems to be to roll
about, day in and day out, every
moment in [these] machines.
Literally a rolling around in the
present symbol of wealth," Alfred
Stieglitz noted. Strand, interested in
mechanics and cars since childhood,
made photographs with the
sensuousness of a youth running his
hand over the voluptuous fenders of
his dream machine.
7. Jacques-Henri Lartigue
“He caught memorable
images out of the flux of life
with the skill and style of a
great natural athlete - a visual
athlete to whom the best
game of all was that of seeing
clearly.”
John Szarkowski
How has the photographer
chosen to represent the
motor car in these images?
What has he found exciting
and technically challenging?
8. Walker Evans Subway Portrait: Sixteen
Women, New York, 1938-41,
assembled 1959
“[Walker Evans intuited] the affinity
between the modern artist and the
secret agent – both of them intrepid
observers and recorders, purveyors of
inside information and coded
messages, peripatetic voyeurs who
embrace alienation as an occupational
hazard.”
Mia Fineman
“I’m not interested in people in the
portrait sense, in the individual sense.
I’m interested in people as part of the
pictures and as themselves, but
anonymous.”
Walker Evans
10. “With the camera, it's all or nothing.You either
get what you're after at once, or what you do
has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of
photography has the hand in it so much. The
essence is done very quietly with a flash of the
mind, and with a machine. I think too that
photography is editing, editing after the taking.
After knowing what to take, you have to do the
editing.”
Walker Evans, 1971
Walker Evans
Girl in Fulton Street, New York, 1929
12. These images are from Robert Frank’s series,
From the Bus, New York 1958. The images were
taken from the window of a bus as it drove
through NYC.
Sometimes photographers impose an external
discipline on their image making.
How has Robert Frank approached this
project?
13. Joel Meyerowitz London (Plane and
Elephant) 1966
This image was taken from a car
window. What has interested the
photographer?
Joel Meyerowitz New York City 1975
This is one of Meyerowitz’ colour street
photographs. making sense of the chaos
of street life is a challenge for the
photographer.
What patterns can you observe in this
street photograph that help to give the
image coherence?
14. Lee Friedlander
Route 9W, New York
1969
NEW YORK, NY.- Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital
as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast
scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual "form" for making
photographs. Driving across most of the country's 50 states in an ordinary rental car,
Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview
mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the
country's eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century. This method allows for
fascinating effects in foreshortening, and wonderfully telling juxtapositions in which steering
wheels, dashboards and leatherette bump up against roadside bars, motels, churches,
monuments, suspension bridges, landscapes and often Friedlander's own image, via sideview
mirror shots.
15.
16. Leonard Freed - New York City 1956
This arresting image gains most of its impact
from the low angled viewpoint and almost
musical arrangement of figures picked out
against the cityscape beyond. Pattern is also
important, creating a powerful graphic rhythm
across the picture surface.
How has the photographer organised the
composition of this image?
Why is his chosen viewpoint so effective?
Why is the image so dynamic?
18. Ray Metzker Untitled 1966-7
This seemingly abstract
composition is actually
constructed from a series of
streetscapes made in Chicago.
The tall buildings and relatively
narrow streets provided the
photographer with bold tonal
patterns which he has further
emphasised by arranging the
images together. Close up, the
individual images are clearly
legible.You can see the
pedestrians and cars moving
through the city. Further away,
the big picture is more abstract
but equally satisfying.
19. Some questions to ask yourself:
How do you feel when you are a particular mode of transport?
What is it like to go on a journey?
How do people travel in the city and what is the experience like for
the traveller and the observer?
What techniques can you employ to capture the dynamism and
motion of travelling at speed?
Why do we travel? Make a list of all the journeys you make in a
week, month, year...
How does the mode of transport affect your experience of
travelling?