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Learn to do Your Art by Studying Other Artist’s Works (an Example)

As a young person the Regionalist artist, Thomas Hart Benton, had seen the murals in the nations capital and understood the importance of the visual for inspiration and information. When his father was a congressman, the family lived in Washington … Continue reading →

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Thomas Hart Benton and Student, Jackson Pollock

In the 1930s Thomas Hart Benton allied himself with the Regionalist movement and was very vocal in attacking the French abstract styles.  Because of this, the opinion of most people think of him as a foe of the modernist painting.  … Continue reading →

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