Art

The Treachery of Images is a painting by Rene Magritte. It is famous for its inscription Ceci n'es pas une pipe, or this is not a pipe. The picture shows a pipe that looks like it might come from a tobacco store advertisement. Its inscription seems like a contradiction, but it actually isn't a pipe, it's an image of a pipe.

Although he performed most of his work before the 1920s, Alfred Stieglitz had a profound effect on photography and painting during the decade. As the publisher of two photography periodicals, he helped raise photography from a scientific curiosity to an art. In his 291 Fifth Avenue studios, Stieglitz also helped develop a circle of artists, who became known as the Stieglitz Group, who followed Cubism and German Expansion. These artists combined their skill in European painting with landscape and con-objective art to push the beginnings of modern art.

Thomas Hart Benton is best known for his advancement of the regionalist style. Along with John Steuart Curry, he produced works with themes of small towns in rural America. Even though Benton seems to have held on to some Expressionist roots by using a few off colors and extended curves, his work still demonstrates the movement towards realism during the 1920s. He also painted murals in many parts of the United States, including a masterpiece called Modern America in New York City.

Charles Sheeler was born in Philadelphia in 1883 and studied in the School of Industrial Art and the Pennsylvania Academt of Fine Art in Philadelphia. Although he supported himself at that time as an architectural photographer, he dabbled in vernacular art and architecture.

 

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