Introduction to 'America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s'
Monday 27 February 2017 1 - 2pm
The Reynolds Room, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
Free, booking required.
America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s
Senior curator Adrian Locke introduces 'America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s', an exhibition that surveys a decade that witnessed the rise and fall of the American dream.
In 1929, in the wake of the devastating Wall Street Crash, artists began to struggle to capture the changes that pulsed across the United States. In search of an elusive "Americanness", artists from Jackson Pollock and Georgia O’Keeffe to Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood began to seek to redefine America’s national identity, resulting in a broad spectrum of styles from realism and populism to abstraction. Join us as Adrian Locke introduces this exhibition, examining the politics and history behind these paintings in the context of the rapid urbanisation, industrialisation and mass immigration of the 1930s.
Booking required, unclaimed seats will be released at 12.55pm that day.