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American folk art.

by: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service; Time-Life Films

Publication date: 1967

Topics: 16mm Film, Educational Film, Primitivism in art, Painting, American, Painting, Colonial, United States of America (USA), History, History of art, History of art, United States of America (USA), History

Publisher: McGraw - Hill Films Last known address - 674 Via De La Valle, PO Box 641 Del Mar CA 92014 USA

Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

A study of American folk art produced by itinerant American painters in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Shows the simple, primitive, and naively charming style of these painters, and points out the influence of this style on artists in the 20th century

Summary

Surveys primitive art in the United States from 1775 to 1875, emphasizing objects in the Smithsonian collections and the art of the Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch collection. Includes samples of carved eagles, handmade dresses, crewel work, carousel animals, scrimshaw, bedspreads and samplers.

Addeddate: 2015-02-20 02:55:54

Boxid: 1113023

Identifier: americanfolkart

Lccn: 72714444

Ocr: Portray. Painter. N.W. hearkened limit will pursue his profession in this place for a short time. Ladies and gentleman. Respectfully invited to color to them and examine specimens of his work this was how these early folk artists in America advertise their arrival in the local press on handles they were cold limit is to distinguish them from painters with an academic training there. Need training was in a sign writing coach building or house painting and they went on from there to portray painting to painting the houses of fans and the animals of their patrons. They also painted what they called a fancy pictures which included everything not directly connected with the family pet Celtic images for example which were always in demand. Miming was the make to over people who had scarcely any professional artist outside the big towns but it's a make out who's been ten years. Simplicity of design makes an immediate impact. It grew out of sign painting and it underlined for they only Americans this sense of being American family feeling. Status their pride in their possessions. It was a. Form this sort of coat of arms for the organ in that. Or likenesses are wanted correct and satisfactory or no charges will be made this sort of it that just meant was just so much sales talk of cause and in fact the human face in these folk portrays is always treated in a standard way. The eyes are always wide open the mouth always closed so it can be Kamal for the no long or short the eyes close together of part there was no attempt to catch an expression on mood. That people even the children who stare after tests so boldly from these portraits. Well blocked up to be forthright sober and purposeful and it was more important to them to possess images which pointed up these virtues and to be confronted by portrays which explored the subtleties of personality. They needed only to be able to identify themselves with the paintings to tell it was them and there were various ways in which the numbers provided proof of identity they would produce a familiar furniture a uniform a picture on the wall. The woman painted in her best bonnet and switch only came out on big occasions. The of. A man accompanied by symbols of his trade or profession. The merchant with his legist turns. This anonymous painting of a fireman is an unusually take samples or he's wearing his full regalia his helmet beside him and beyond the curtain at the scene of the kind he had to deal with. The kind of money these folk artists got didn't allow them to indulge in experiment which might not come off the poses were standard and parties to back charges range from as little as a dollar for the pope file and three dollars for fun you to a top figure of twenty five dollars Is this it to one kid not in the shade or particularly a lab dress and the artist had a reputation for. Pride. Of ownership. Led many people to have portray it's made of their homes or businesses as well as all to themselves and when the traveling painters recorded a country seen a catalog his main features with the same simple assurance that they broke today human portrait. The farm of Mr JONES of Dodgeville Wisconsin has an added part. As if every day in Dodgeville was a Sunday. Mr Tough for those lives a stable is painted in eighteen seventy. Mr Turtle is obviously part of his weathervane So the fact that it's hard to scale doesn't necessarily reflect on the artist's Carroll. Lead him far. Described on the back and name morning view of the farm and stock of David Needham of Newtown Bucks County with himself. Wife father mother brothers sisters and nephew this masterpiece of American painting has a cool shop early morning magic and must be one of the most beautiful stark invented ever made. Children were often painted reduced rates although the pictures included more things in the portraits of the grown ups. Dolls toys and pets. There's something about the ball badly. MN to this face it needs a strong impression of a particular person but just in case of parents didn't recognize that bottle wouldn't melt in the mouth look they're his best suit to prove it said Sam and his Mungo dogs with telltale patches of. The dogs and cats which got into these paintings of children were painted feature by feature in the same meticulous way as a nurse and usually came out looking like Pierce comedian somewhat larger than life. Stiffen Four Square that the children themselves. Profile painting was the easiest as well as the cheapest The artist would make small variations to his basic formula to fit the characters a child hears a cliff of hair that won't sit down the bird is probably the artist played. There was also a big trading morning pictures painted almost always by women for some reason they followed a rigid convention of weeping willows handsome and depersonalize mourners they were hung on the parlor was enough into the place. We'll tombstones being cheaper and easier to do. Sometimes they were prepared long before they were needed. The name on names being added later as a class. They were cheap reminders of the dear departed and while paying the family's respects to the dead in vote harmless mature and Wells. So from childhood to the grave the limits chronicled the lives of these Parnia Americans a tough self-sufficient pious and non-conformist people. As well as the cause of the selves and of their property they would also Commission religious paintings. Not of course of the Holy Family are saints which would be considered much to Pope issue but of bible stories which preached good neighborliness such as this. Earliest cartoon of the Good Samaritan completely text a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among seeing. A nation tricked him of his Raymond and wounded him and departed leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain police that way and when he saw him he passed by on the other side and likewise a Levite came and looked at him and pass by on the other side. But a certain sum merits and came where he was and had compassion on him and bound up his wounds pulling in on and wine. And set him on his own based and brought him to an inn and to have him. The nearest approach to a saint in the art of American folk painters is the Quaker William Penn he's painted over and over again particularly by Edward Hicks himself a Quaker and one of the few of these well known most of them never signed their work and their identities are lost Hicks often painted pens graver Jordan's in Buckinghamshire although he'd never been to England himself. He exterminate mind is the best of these folk painted his favorite subject was the peaceable kingdom a pass a deal. Illustrating Izod Chapter two verses six to eight the war shall also dwell with the lamb and the leopard chill live down with the kid and the car one young lion and the fattening together and a little child shall lead them. And always in the background on the left hand side is William Penn signing his treaty with the Indians. Hicks master painted nearly a hundred versions of this vision of the promised land. Painting as if the biblical prophecy had at last come to in Pennsylvania it's one of the simplest purist communications of faith in the history of art. To my mind a society gets the art it deserves the folks out of America was an art of the people made by the people for the people and it does sometimes.