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America After The Fall
RA Exhibitions
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Podcast round-up – America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s
Catch up on talks at the RA surrounding our exhibition America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s.
RA Exhibitions
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Podcast: Black art and activism
Artists Sonia Boyce RA, Dr Kimathi Donkor and Jacob V Joyce join arts practitioner and academic Dr Michael McMillan to discuss whether black artists today are expected to challenge global and national issues of race and representation.
RA Exhibitions
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Podcast: the influences of American Gothic
Art historian R. Tripp Evans delves deep into the significance and origins of Grant Wood’s iconic painting, one of the works in the RA’s exhibition America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s.
RA Exhibitions
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Podcast: art of the 1930s American dream
Professor Sarah Churchwell examines the political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the RA exhibition ‘America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s’, which includes works by Grant Wood, Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe.
RA Exhibitions
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10 of the most parodied artworks of all time
With ‘American Gothic’ in the UK for the first time, we take a look at some of the other iconic works that have attracted moustaches, Muppets and other mimicry across art history.
RA Exhibitions
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Video: Edward Hopper in 60 seconds
In our latest 60-second guide, Tim Marlow introduces Edward Hopper, perhaps the most important American realist painter of the early 20th century.
RA Exhibitions
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Video: Grant Wood in 60 seconds
Tim Marlow introduces Grant Wood, the artist whose portrayals of small-town life in America include one of the most recognisable paintings of all time.
RA Exhibitions
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Miss Piggy’s American Gothique: the making of a (near) masterpiece
As Grant Wood’s American Gothic goes on show at the RA, the former Creative Director of the Muppets explains how he came to make a painstaking tribute to it – and why he owes Piggy an apology. We begin our story in Bermuda…
RA Exhibitions
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The reality behind American Gothic
As ‘America after the Fall’ brings some of the country’s most iconic works to Europe for the first time, Sarah Churchwell considers the cultural and political backdrop to Depression Era art.
Opinion
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“The 21st century is proving pretty nasty. Let’s reflect on art’s relationship with our times.”
A hundred years on from the Russian Revolution and the Great Depression, should artists get involved in politics like the Constructivists? Or should they remain distant like Thomas Hart Benton? Having the choice is fortune indeed, says artist Bob and Roberta Smith.
RA Exhibitions
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Six views of America
As a new term in the White House divides America, we look back to another time of social upheaval and economic anxiety. Here are six snapshots of a changing country, as depicted by 1930s artists in the RA’s upcoming exhibition, ‘America after the Fall’, and then by contemporary painters in 21st century USA.
RA Exhibitions
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“I taught Jack that” – Thomas Hart Benton and his student, Jackson Pollock
Ahead of our America After the Fall exhibition, Debra N. Mancoff spotlights Hart Benton’s paintings of idealised rural life during the Great Depression – and his mentorship of an emerging young artist, Jackson Pollock.
RA Exhibitions
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What’s coming up in 2017 at the Royal Academy of Arts
The RA’s Artistic Director introduces our 2017 exhibition programme, which explores some of the most momentous developments in 20th-century art.