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Adams, Henry. Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2009. Print.
Jackson Pollock and Thomas Hart Benton both shared a love of art as well as an intense friendship that not only challenged but also changed American art. This book focuses on the portrait of such a friendship through displaying both the styles of the artists. In terms of relationship, Pollock studied under Benton as a student. In fact, Adams explains Pollock's only formal training came from Benton, thus becoming a sort of surrogate father to Pollock. Adam also covers some of the more odd facets of their lives such as Pollock's romantic love for Benton's wife. From there, Pollock branches away from Benton and achieves success as an artist. The personal drama Adams unfolds along with vivid description of the artwork allows for great insight into the lives of two great artists.
Dickerman, Leah, Diego Rivera, and Anna Indych-Lopez. Diego Rivera. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Print.
The book describes Diego Rivera exhibit of MOMA or The Museum of Modern Art in 1931. It was styled as a monographic exhibition, setting new attendance records at the time during its five-week run. They brought Rivera for six-week to New York, giving...
In the studio, Rivera produced portable murals, five in total. They were essentially big blocks of frescoed plaster, wood, and slaked lime featuring vivid images concerning Mexican subject matter. The books has essays and catalogues that help readers examine international politics concerning muralism.
Doss, Erika Lee. Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Print.
In this commended progressive study, the writer Doss archives a significant cultural transformation in American art and focus on art from the ascendency of regionalism during the 1930s all the way to abstract expressionism during the 1940s. Doss focuses her study on two artists, Jackson Pollock and Thomas Hart Benton. Doss mentions Pollock and Benton's leading student in early 1930s, charting Pollock's initial imitation of his mentor's style prior to his radical move onto abstraction. By positioning painting inside the evolving cultural and sociopolitical context of the Depression spanning to the Cold War, Doss clarifies the reasons for such a change as well as casts light on its meaning for modern culture.
Metmuseum.org,. 'Thomas Hart Benton's America Today Mural Rediscovered | The Metropolitan Museum of…
This book covers the life and story of artist, Thomas Hart Benton. It begins with description of his birth. Benton was born at the end of the 19th century in Missouri. The books goes on to explain Benton becoming the first artists to be featured on the cover of the famous magazine, Time as well as paying homage to him as the true original. The book explains of Benton's time in NY and even his time with Jackson Pollock.
Xroads.virginia.edu,. 'Thomas Hart Benton - Biography'. N.p., 2015. Web. 8 Mar. 2015.
This is a website featuring a quick and short biography on the artist, Thomas Hart Benton. The webpage mentions Hart gained fame in major cities such as Paris, Chicago, and New York. It states Benton, born in rural Neosho, Missouri, would go on to depict rural life subject matter such as Ku Klux Klan members, oppressed farmers, and big business, that all played negative parts in society at the time. The webpage also mentioned Benton's meeting with a fellow artist, Diego Rivera.
When the work was near completion a reporter came to the cite to interview Rivera and took many scenes from the work as examples of a dangerously revolutionary idea, despite Rivera's impassioned explanation and led the public to believe that Rivera had duped Rockefeller and the American people. A said that, as long as the Soviet Union was in existence, Nazi fascism could never be sure of its survival. Therefore, the
Moreover, it was also during his final years in Europe that he developed his ideas about muralismo (mural art) as public art which would focus on the Mexican people (Brenner 280). He saw himself as a revolutionary who believed that all art was political propaganda thus he chose painting as his most important tool of expression because he thought that it was the easiest and most effective method of
Kahlo was in almost constant pain, due to a childhood bout with polio and a bus accident that nearly killed her as a teenager ("Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo," Eyeconart, 2009). Her marriage to Rivera, which ended in divorce, was also a frequent subject of her raw, unsparing works of art. This is unsurprising given Rivera's volatile personality and frequent infidelities. Kahlo's preferred subject matter was herself: she did not
Art, Picasso, Matisse, Diego Rivera Life had placed Picasso, Matisse and Rivera with three different starts. Of them, Picasso is the most renowned. His name was a mouthful - Pablo or El Pablito Diego Jose Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y Picasso Lopez. He was born in 1881 in Malage, Spain and is considered as the father of cubism
Frida Kahlo is quoted as saying, "I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down. The other accident is Diego," (cited by Botis 1). The love relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is one of the most famous in modern art. Their relationship was tumultuous, which seemed to be a good recipe for creativity and artistic self-expression. "It is a well-known fact
Frida Kahlo- surrealist painter, cross- dresser, enthusiastic drinker and lover, inspiration for one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, Diego Rivera, icon, legend, communist activist and I know the list can go on. It is amazing how someone who only lived 47 years and whose life was a collection of operations and sickness could be such an active person. Yet, she was and was to become one of