Great Depression

Examples of Great Depression in the following topics:

• Photography during the Great Depression

  • The period from 1930-1945 in American history is marked by the Great Depression and outbreak of the second World War.
  • Social realism, also known as socio-realism, became an important art movement during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
  • The Farm Security Administration, part of the New Deal, was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.
  • From 1935-1944, the Farm Security Administration employed several photographers to document the effects of the Great Depression on the population of America.
  • Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered by the FSA project such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks.

• American Regionalist Art

  • Partly due to the Great Depression, Regionalism became one of the dominant art movements in America in the 1930s (the other being Social Realism).
  • During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Regionalist art was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland.

• Painting

  • When the Great Depression hit, president Roosevelt's New Deal created several public arts programs.
  • Several separate and related movements began and developed during the Great Depression including Regionalism and Social Realism, along with Modernist trends.

• American Art Deco Architecture

  • As the Great Depression decade of the 1930s progressed, Americans saw a new decorative element of the Art Deco style emerge in the marketplace: streamlining.

• Painting and Sculpture

  • As the century began, many young European sculptors migrated to the booming economy of the United States, and European trained sculptors account for much of the great work created before 1950.
  • When the Great Depression hit in 1929 and 1930, the economic and political landscape of the country ushered in a new era of art that would later become known as New Deal Art.

• Japanese Art in the Showa Period

  • This was part of an overall global period of social upheavals and conflicts such as the Great Depression and the Second World War.

• Drypoint

  • Carbide-tipped steel needles can also be used to great effect, and are cheaper than diamond-tipped needles, but they need frequent sharpening to maintain a sharp point.
  • This technique is different from engraving, in which the incisions are made by removing metal to form depressions in the plate surface which hold ink.

• Gothic Cathedrals

  • The Gothic cathedral represented the universe in microcosm, and each architectural concept, including the height and perfect ratios of the structure, were intended to convey a theological message: the great glory of God and his creation of a perfect universe.
  • The way in which the pointed arch was drafted and utilized developed throughout the Gothic period, and four popular styles emerged: the Lancet arch, the Equilateral arch, the Flamboyant arch and the Depressed arch.

• Architecture of Great Zimbabwe

  • Perhaps the most famous site in southern Africa, Great Zimbabwe is a ruined city constructed by the Mwenemutapa.
  • Perhaps the most famous site in southern Africa, Great Zimbabwe is a ruined city constructed by the Mwenemutapa.
  • For the elite, there seems to have been a great deal of wealth.
  • Great Zimbabwe is most famous for its enormous walls, built without mortar.
  • Distinguish the features of the Hill Complex, the Greate Enclosure, and the Valley Complex of Great Zimbabwe.

• Architecture of the Qin Dynasty

  • Qin architecture is characterized by defensive structures and elements that conveyed authority and power, as exemplified by the early beginnings of the Great Wall.
  • This allowed for the construction of ambitious projects, such as a wall on the northern border, now known as the Great Wall of China.
  • The result was the initial construction of what later became the Great Wall of China, which was built by joining and strengthening the walls made by the feudal lords.
  • The initial construction of what would become the Great Wall of China began under Qin Shihuang during the Qin Dynasty.