Arts in the Gilded Age

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Arts in the Gilded Age
To Literature
To Furniture
To Architecture
To Art

• By
• Stephen Smith and
• Marcus Johnson

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Walt WhitmanDemocratic Vistas

• Emphasized the importance of democracy in the
  development of character.
• One of Whitmans famous works.

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Stephen CraneMaggie A Girl of the Streets

• Highlighted the naturalistic principles that
  humans have.
• First work of unalloyed naturalism in American
  fiction.

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Edward BellamyLooking Backward 2000to 1887

• Stated that America will turn to a socialist
  society because of increasingly competitive
  industry.
• Inspired nationalism.

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Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs
Court

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is a
  story of a young man going back in time to the
  days of King Arthur.
• Twain made fun of Chivalry

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Furniture
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Richard Morris Hunt

• Richard Morris Hunt liked square buildings.
• His buildings reflected the architectural
  influences of France.
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  mansion-flckr.jpg
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Henry Hobson Richardson

• Henry Hobson Richardson had an aesthetic
  philosophy that made him able to use all of his
  styles.
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• http//www.victoriansociety.org/images/Watts20She
  rm201874-620HHR.jpg

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Louis Sullivan

• Louis Sullivan had a form follows function
  philosophy that stated how a buildings shape
  should reflect its purpose.
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5
  /Auditorium_Building_Chicago.jpg
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34
  /Wainwright_building_st_louis_USA.jpg

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John Singer Sargent

• John Singer Sargent painted landscapes and
  utilized watercolors.
• He studied in many countries and was influenced
  by Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran.
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18
  /Sargent_MadameX.jpeg
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65
  /Frederick_Law_Olmsted.jpg

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James McNeill Whistler

• Whistler created paintings that showed harmony.
• He revitalized British painting as a whole, and
  left a huge art legacy in Britain.
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/Whis
  tlersMother.jpeg
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a
  /James_Abbot_McNeill_Whistler_012.jpg

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Mary Cassat

• Mary Cassat studied at an art school in
  Pennsylvania, moved to Paris, then back to the
  U.S. after the Franco-Russian War.
• She painted Impressionist works, mostly during
  the 1890s. http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
  commons/e/eb/Mary_Cassatt_002.jpg
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c
  /Mary_Cassatt_281844-192629_-_Summertime_28c189
  429.jpg

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Winslow Homer

• Homer painted mainly heroic works while in
  Europe.
• As he matured he painted more dramatic works
  while residing in Maine.
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82
  /Winslow_Homer_Rowing_Home.jpg
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f
  /Winslow_Homer_Sunlight_on_the_Coast.jpg

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Albert Pinkham Ryder

• Ryder was known for his dark, poetic works, and
  painted very unconventionally, but lost all of
  his creativity after his father died.
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c
  /Albert_Pinkham_Ryder_002.jpg
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9
  /Albert_Pinkham_Ryder_004.jpg

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