Exemplary artist. Andrew Wyeth (mid-C20). He worked in dry-brush watercolor and tempera. His themes included loneliness in nature and the outdoors, and nostalgia. His technique was meticulous and clinically direct. He strived for the verisimilitude of the photograph. His paintings display social and psychological tension and the savagery of the life during the era. He reduced his compositions to their bare essence. Subsidiary artists: Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Tooker, Ivan Albright. Post-1960 General Trends. Critics searched something to re-establish a connection with the past. The borders between painting and sculpture became blurred. Concept art stressed the idea of the artist over material execution to transform art from physical objects to mental images. Pop Art. Pop Art emerged as an original and irreverent parody of the vulgar imagery and artifacts of the commercial culture. It grew from Action Painting towards objectivity
Exemplary artist. Andrew Wyeth (mid-C20). He worked in dry-brush watercolor and tempera. His themes included loneliness in nature and the outdoors, and nostalgia. His technique was meticulous and clinically direct. He strived for the verisimilitude of the photograph. His paintings display social and psychological tension and the savagery of the life during the era. He reduced his compositions to their bare essence. Subsidiary artists: Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Tooker, Ivan Albright. Post-1960 General Trends. Critics searched something to re-establish a connection with the past. The borders between painting and sculpture became blurred. Concept art stressed the idea of the artist over material execution to transform art from physical objects to mental images. Pop Art. Pop Art emerged as an original and irreverent parody of the vulgar imagery and artifacts of the commercial culture. It grew from Action Painting towards objectivity
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