1920s Art

           The 1920s was a time of conservatism and great social change in music. It was the Jazz age in the 1920s and people went crazy with art and music, but more with music because that was the only thing they could dance to.  In general the difference in art was the color and the way the painter used those colors to make their art. The 1920s music was the biggest thing that hit the United States.

            Everything in the 1920s was about paintings, photographs, jazz, and blues music. The most commend style they used in the 1920s was the Art deco style and it was a great influence on us. They also used the stepped style to make the skyscraper or other buildings in the paintings look nice. The color of the paintings used symbolism and the creative style of the period to bring to life a style.

            Edward Hopper was a prominent realist painter and he was also a printmaker. He most well known for his oil paintings and watercolors and was a great painter in the early 1920s. Edward was born in Nyack, New York and he was a good student in grade school with a great talent in drawing at the age of 5. Hopper loved French and Russian culture do to his mother’s artistic lineage. In 1912 hopper traveled to Gloucester, Massachusetts to seek inspiration and Edward did his first outdoor painting and painted Squam light. Hopper painted a painting call Automat; a women well dressed and is wearing makeup and she had removed one glove. Hopper used the creative style of the women and it tells that no women are happy alone.

            Bessie smith was a jazz singer that was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in July 1892. By the time she was nine year olds, she lost her mother, Laura, and her older sister Viola was in charge of caring for her family. Smith scored a big hit with her first release of “Gulf Coast Blues and Downhearted Blue”, in the early 1920s. She became a headliner and rose to become its top attraction on the black T.O.B.A. Bessie became the queen of the blues. Overall Smith made 160 recordings for Columbia and accompanied with other singers.

            Edward Hopper paintings gave a lot of ideas and influence to other artists in their paintings. Hopper had colorful and wonderful painting in the 1920s. Bessie Smith influenced other singers like her and she had a great voice and was a great singer. Smith’s songs were great hit in the 1920s and changed the way of blues and jazz. Edward’s paintings are great and show the way he feels in his artwork. The color Hopper used is wonderful and creative and one of a kind. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hopper

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