It also expressed an emotional reaction to the effects of the Great Depression. American Scene painting was cheerless, romantically nostalgic and grotesque. The pictures are laden with shadows and the oppressive atmosphere of desolation. The subjects concerned landscape, architecture and urban scenes. The "Regionalists" displayed false optimism and tried to rejuvenate the values of the heartland of the Mid-West. Their pictures were an art of the country (hillbillies, folksingers, farms etc.). There is marked influence of xenophobia and Puritanic elements. Exemplary artist. Edward Hopper (early-C20). He focused on large cities. He was influenced by "The Eight". Typical to him is bleak light, loneliness, detachment, beauty in ugliness and monotony. He suggests non-existent or uneasy relations between human figures. He emphasizes light to suggest the time of day. The sense of location is perseveres in his pictures. Thomas Hart Benton (early-C20)
It also expressed an emotional reaction to the effects of the Great Depression. American Scene painting was cheerless, romantically nostalgic and grotesque. The pictures are laden with shadows and the oppressive atmosphere of desolation. The subjects concerned landscape, architecture and urban scenes. The "Regionalists" displayed false optimism and tried to rejuvenate the values of the heartland of the Mid-West. Their pictures were an art of the country (hillbillies, folksingers, farms etc.). There is marked influence of xenophobia and Puritanic elements. Exemplary artist. Edward Hopper (early-C20). He focused on large cities. He was influenced by "The Eight". Typical to him is bleak light, loneliness, detachment, beauty in ugliness and monotony. He suggests non-existent or uneasy relations between human figures. He emphasizes light to suggest the time of day. The sense of location is perseveres in his pictures. Thomas Hart Benton (early-C20)
A PRACTICAL GUIDE T H E HERO'S J O U R N E Y 9 T H E W R I T E R ' S JOURNEY ~ T H I R D EDITION Christopher Vogler 1 . T H E ORDINARY W O R L D M o s t stories take the hero out of the ordinary, mundane world and into a Special World, new and alien. T h i s is the familiar "fish out of water" idea which has spawned countless films and T V shows ( " T h e Fugitive," " T h e Beverly Hillbillies," Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Wizard of Oz, Witness, 48 Hours, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, etc.). If you're going to show a fish out of his customary element, you first have to show him in that Ordinary W o r l d to create a vivid contrast with the strange new world he is about to enter. In Witness you see both the city policeman and the Amish mother and son in
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