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Atfirst, most painters embedded references to everyday life in portraits, which were the only works for which a market existed. Beginning about 1830, however, and largely in response to the development of public exhibition spaces in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, some painters were able to free themselves from dependence on portrait commissions and to adopt new subjects that would appeal to wider audiences. They worked primarily in the form of genre, a French term that means types or sorts and that in paintings refers to scenes of lower- and middle-class characters. William Sidney Mount, who led the way, and his contemporaries favored depictions of courtship, families, and community life in rural settings that were associated positively with fundamental national values. They reinforced in their works popular notions of American identity and competed with contemporaneous Hudson River School landscapists for attention and patronage. American genre painters produced works that were clearly delineated, humorous, and didactic or moralizing, like the old master Dutch or more recent French and English paintings and prints that inspired them.

Perry, Claire. Young America: Childhood in Nineteenth-Century Art and Culture. Exhibition catalogue, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

William Carlos Williams was a unique figure in American poetry. A practicing family doctor who continued to care for his patients throughout his poetic career, Williams grounded his poems in a direct engagement both with the object world and with the contemporary social environment of the region where he lived and worked: the area around Rutherford and Paterson, New Jersey. As he continued to refine his craft throughout the first half of the century and into the beginning of the second half, Williams produced a body of poetry as impressive as that of any other American writer of his time. It is a poetry that celebrates the local American scene while remaining determinedly experimental in its form and language.

Williams was not alone in attempting to find a poetic language appropriate to the experience of modern America. During the period from 1910 to 1925 American poetry experienced a resurgence that was unprecedented in its breadth and intensity, as a steady stream of emerging new talent transformed the literary landscape. In addition to Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Lowell, H. D., and Moore, the list of important poets publishing their first volumes during these years included Robinson Jeffers, Vachel Lindsay, Conrad Aiken, Stephen Vincent Bent, Carl Sandburg, Alfred Kreymborg, Witter Bynner, Archibald MacLeish, Charles Reznikoff, John Crowe Ransom, E. E. Cummings, Yvor Winters, and Jean Toomer.

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George Bellows arrived in New York in the early years of the twentieth century and made his first paintings in 1904 while a student of Robert Henri. The major themes of his career emerged almost immediately: urban views, vigorous landscapes, vivid portraits, and sporting subjects that struck a chord with the public despite their unvarnished interpretation of American life.

Although Bellows was not a member of the group known as "the Eight" -- a loose association of painters who first exhibited together at the Macbeth Gallery in New York in 1908 -- his work paralleled in subject and style. With the members of "the Eight" -- Henri, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and William Glackens -- Bellows participated in a movement to confront academic painting with a progressive, revitalized American Art. A number of these painters, including Bellows, had worked as newspaper artists and shared a graphic figural style as well as an interest in describing contemporary life. Others, such as Arthur B. Davies, preferred to paint scenes from the imagination, a challenge which Bellows confronted in literary subjects and in his images of the first World War.

Bellows's versatility also extended to lithography. He was an outstanding draftsman whose prints equal his achievements as a painter. His portrayal of the American scene in the first decades of the century combined a directness of vision and approach with a perceptible energy that continues to resonate in his work.

During the period between the two world wars, a lot of American artists rejected the modern trends stemming from the Armory Show. A lot of the American scene painting reveals a nationalism and romanticism of typical American life.

In reaction to the modern European style, American Scene painting developed an antimodernist style, defining an exclusive American style of art. Far from an organized artistic movement with a manifesto, American Scene artists separated themselves from abstraction and avant-garde during the two world wars.

Social realism is an American realism movement with a more political and socially critical content, emphasising realistic representations of social problems. This movement is to be distinguished from the French realist movement of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet.

American Regionalism is a realist modern art movement where artists rejected the city and focused on scenes of country life. Regionalist style developed from 1930 to 1935. The major artists of the artistic movement were Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry. In the course of the Great Depression, Regionalism was very much appreciated for its comforting imageries of America.

At a time where politics and social and economics were very uncertain following the Great Depression, artists in America continued to maintain their commitment to depicting their personal impressions and visions. Struggling to establish their own identity, they wanted to separate themselves radically from the influence of European artists at the time.

Forty years of painting isn't enough. Today he works in Acme Art Studios, thriving from his contact with the other artists. His latest interest is painting scenes in the American West that are threatened.

Zach Bryan has always taken inspiration from those around him and worn his heart on his sleeve when it comes to his music. His 2019 self-produced debut album, DeAnn, was named after his mother who passed away when he was 20 and his 2020 second album, Elisabeth, was named for and featured artwork of his then-wife Rose Elisabeth Madden.

The Great American Bar Scene is no different. The album is less about the bar scene and more about the connection between people, particularly those that would be shared in conversation at bars.

Northwest Social Realism and the American Scene is an exhibition focused on Northwest artists and their depictions of scenes of everyday life in the Northwest during the 1930s through the 1950s. Many of the works reflect the industrial, political and social aspects of the Great Depression and WWII period.

Beginning in the late 1920s, younger American artists were turning away from the dominant influence of a completely unique representation of America. These artists utilized subject matter depicting elements of their individual regions and often celebrated the urban and rural environments as well as local industries and recreational activities.

Between the Great Depression and World War II, American art was transformed by the influx of European artists fleeing war and oppression. One effect was the contribution of surrealist and abstract artists to the burgeoning, and ultimately paramount, international modern art scene of America in the 1950s. Another effect was in reaction to the surreal and abstract by American artists who focused on American subjects and the American experience. It is these artists that are celebrated in this exhibition. These artists all explored the American condition and depicted various aspects of regional character.

I also look at how these elements are framed in terms of shot angle and shot distance, which fall under the category of cinematography (filmanalysis.yale.edu/cinematography). Elements that make up cinematography include:

In reality, there is quite a lot of overlap between mise-en-scne and cinematography. For example, if a director wants an actor to slowly emerge from the shadows the set designer, costume designer, lighting director and cinematographer would have to work together to get the right look.

The scene appears early on the movie. At the beginning of American Beauty, the protagonist, Lester Burnham is disillusioned with his life. At home he and his materialistic, ambitious wife can barely stand each other, and his sullen teenage daughter cannot stand either of them. At work, he is going nowhere, trapped in a thankless and meaningless job writing for a media magazine.

Here the shot is a mid-shot, and Brad occupies a large portion of the frame. The low angle mid shot emphasizes his power, especially when juxtaposed with the high angle wide shot of Lester that we just looked at. When Brad stands up, the low angle shot is further emphasized.

Mid-way through the film, the two men meet again. By this point in the movie. Lester has decided he needs to make a change. In this scene, Lester is quitting his dead-end job AND blackmailing the company into paying him off. Emotionally, he is in a very different place.

In this video, I have only touched on a few cinematic elements related to mise-en-scne and cinematography and have not touched upon things like dialogue, editing, sound or music. I have also left out things like blocking , cameras level, depth of field, film stock, keying (e.g., high key versus low key lighting) aspect ratio, tonality, camera movement (e.g., zoom, pan. tilt, tracking shots, etc), shot duration and editing.