Stuart Davis (painter)
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| - | + | '''Stuart Davis''' (December 7, 1892–June 24, 1964), was an early [[American modernism|American modernist]] [[Painting|painter]]. He was well known for his [[Jazz]] influenced, proto [[pop art]] paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful as well as his [[Ashcan School|ashcan]] pictures in the early years of the [[20th century]]. | |
| - | Although the movement began in the late 1950s, [[Pop Art]] in America was given its greatest impetus during the 1960s. By this time, American advertising had adopted many elements and inflections of modern art and functioned at a very sophisticated level. Consequently, American artists had to search deeper for dramatic styles that would distance art from the well-designed and clever commercial materials. | + | |
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| - | While the [[British pop art]] movement predated the [[American pop art]] movement, there were some earlier American proto-Pop origins which utilized 'as found' cultural objects. During the 1920s American artists [[Gerald Murphy]], [[Charles Demuth]] and [[Stuart Davis (painter)|Stuart Davis]] created paintings prefiguring the pop art movement that contained pop culture imagery such as mundane objects culled from American commercial products and advertising design. | + | |
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Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892–June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his Jazz influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century.
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