American 20th-21st Century Representational Art
(above: Richard Zoellner, West Virginia Landscape, 1941, tempera on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the General Services Administration. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Introduction
This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "American 20th-21st Century Representational Art." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to these articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the Resource Library publication date.
526 Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
2011-2016 12
2006 19
2005 58
2003 37
2000-2001 126
1999 136
Quote:
"While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
- Ray Bradbury in his Preface to Zen in the Art of Writing (1990). Quote is sourced from Wikipedia.
From other websites:
Art Concerning Poverty and Homelessness
Artist Paintings of Foreign Scenes
20th-21st Century Art by Decades
More American 20th-21st Century Representational Art, Not Yet Classified
Online videos
Visiting...With Huell Howser - LINT
ART is an archived 28-minute television broadcast presented online by
KCET. "Huell visits his artist friend Slater Barron to witness the
beauty of art made from lint. Yes, lint." Text courtesy of KCET. Accessed
January, 2015.
PBS provides a variety of streaming
video sources for American art. PBS's two-season television series Art-21,
Art in the Twenty-First Century. PBS explains that the series is "the
only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art
and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television to
provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery
visit. Fascinating and intimate footage allows the viewer to observe the
artists at work, watch their process as they transform inspiration into
art, and hear their thoughts as they grapple with 
the physical and
visual challenges of achieving their artistic visions." The Art-21
website contains video clips relating to each of the many featured artists
including Laurie Anderson, Margaret Kilgallen, Sally Mann, Bruce Nauman,
Raymond Pettibon, Martin Puryear, Susan Rothenberg, Collier Schorr, Kiki
Smith, William Wegman and Fred Wilson. The Art:21 series and its companion
materials answer the following questions: who are today's artists?; what
are they thinking about?; how do they describe their work? and why do they
do what they do? The Season One and Two home videos are two sets with four
hours each. Viewers meet "a diverse group of contemporary artists through
revealing profiles that take viewers behind the scenes-into artists' studios,
homes, and communities -- to provide an intimate view of their lives, work,
sources of inspiration, and creative processes." Representational as
well as abstract artists are featured in the videos. Accessed May, 2015.
Philocetes Center presents a discussion
with Chuck Close, Vincent Katz, and Matthew von Unwerth about the film "Chuck
Close," directed by Marion Cajori. [32:40] Accessed May, 2015.
(above: Frederick J. Waugh, Southwesterly Gale, St. Ives, 1907, oil on canvas, 30.1 x 50.1 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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