To contact the webmistresses please email us at linglingmixtures@gmail.com
Harlem Renaissance / The New Negro Movement
Early 1920's to 1930's
The Harlem Renaissance is a flowering of African-American social thought that was expressed through the visual arts, as well as through music. This all took place in the Harlem district of New York City, and this movement had a profound influence accross the United States and all around the world.
Artist(s): William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Sargent Claude Johnson- sculptor and printmaker, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald Motley, and Romare Bearden .
Neo-Plasticism
Holland, 1920 to 1940
Neo-Plasticism is a rigid form of Abstraction, whose rules allow only for a canvas divided into rectangles by horizontal and vertical lines, and colored using a very limited color selection.
Artist(s): Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, and Jean Gorin.
The New Objectivity
Germany, 1918-1933
New Objectivity was an Expressionist movement founded in Germany in the aftermath of World War I by George Grosz and also Otto Dix. The artwork can be summerized as a realistic style combined with a cynical and socially critical philosophical stance.
Artist(s):George Grosz, Otto Dix, Christian Schad, Max Beckmann
Precisionism
America, 1920's to 1930's
Precisionism (or Cubist Realism)is a style of representation that an object is rendered in a realistic manner, but an emphasis on its geometric form that is similar to art deco. this was inspired by cubism in Europe and the rapid growth of industrialization of North Americain the early days of innovators such as Henry Ford.
Artist(s): Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, and Georgia O'Keeffe.