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Edward Hopper depicted urban scenes, often with a sense of isolation and melancholy appropriate to the Great Depression.World War II, the rise of abstract art overshadowed traditional representation. But in the late twentieth century figurative painting returned, and imagery from popular and consumer culture were incorporated into a contemporary version of genre. Works by artists such as
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3. The most famous museums in the USA
.1 The American Museum of Natural History
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.1 The Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation
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American art has gone through all sorts of difficulties such as wars and revolutions that has affected on its development. Gradually there were various genres, styles and trends in American art.course work sought to provide an accurate and systematic description of American art.In the course work the main stages in development of painting in the US, the major genres of painting, the most famous museums and art galleries have been examined. The work has shown the most important periods in the development of American art, affects of various events in the country on it, the main genres of painting and its main representatives such as John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer and James Peale.we knew about the most famous museums such as Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Natural History which contain many valuable exhibits and are very interesting for tourists.up the results of the research we should note that American art has made a huge contribution to the development of the w...
