Learn about the origins and development of art in the United States and see postmodern art for all people

In the last century, America has been a city of dreams, where people from all over the world have come in search of the American dream. And the collision and development of various cultures have created a colorful American culture and art. DADA's Global Art Tour to America takes us on a journey to this exciting and exuberant country to see the development of their art.

The Americas were discovered in 1492 and became known to the world in 1945. Towards the end of the Second World War, Europeans came to realize that the new world of the Americas across the Atlantic had risen to rival them. The American soldiers who landed in Europe brought with them many fascinating novelties - Coca-Cola, hamburgers, chewing gum, colorful cigarettes, American soccer, and, of course, movie stars and cheerleading girls. But it was the rugged cowboys who were the most eye-opening for Europeans, bringing with them a wave of art.

It was an art that began to develop its own distinctive style, encompassing the history of the United States of America and all its symbols, the outcasts of the city, the tall buildings, the glittering imitation jewelry ...... that had made its way into the museums of New York and Los Angeles. New schools of painting were born one after another, breaking all the rules set by the old-school champions of art in Paris, the cultural center of the world. And so it was that these new genres, expressing pain, humor, discontent, dissent or bad taste, moved from disorder to order and changed the world of art profoundly in the future.

DADA's Global Art Tour to America takes a look at the origins and development of mainstream art, and introduces the American art frenzy of the last century, so let's find out now.

Artists in Europe sought perfection in the lines of the figure, and they were generally aristocrats or court painters, where art was highbrow and rarely accessible to commoners. And in this emerging United States, people are detached from the original class solidification, and pursue art with a freer mind, making their art closer to life and more humane.

At this time, the Fauvists and Expressionists were also motivated by this principle to create, and Cubism and abstraction were utilized in large numbers, as well as futuristic painters.

Edward Hopper was one of the greatest American painters, and one of the most "American", and the sheer loneliness of his work seems to be a product of modernization.

His 1925 work, Houses by the Railroad, seems bland and monotonous, but the monotony is striking: those who live by the railroad tracks enjoy the unchanging view from their windows of the trains passing in front of their houses every day, and in 1939 Edward Hopper created New York Cinema, in which a female ticket inspector stands in reverie at the entrance to the screening room, while the audience watches in the dim light. The audience is watching the movie in the darkness. Again, this painting represents the solitude of another world, one in which the image of the movie seems more real and inviting than the world around it.

Like European painters, American painters were increasingly interested in depicting cities. Charles Sheeler, for example, depicted landscapes devoid of life - the cold chimneys of factories replacing the clamor of nature. His brushwork is clean and sharp, using only extremely simple lines to outline, and his works are almost abstract sketches, from which we can see the shadow of the French three-dimensional subject painting.

Similarly, Stuart Davis used abstraction to depict music, clubs, city streets and street posters.

In Charles Demuth's paintings, the city seems to be pushed by a never-ending push-button, and in his famous I See the Number 5 in Gold, Demuth depicts the impression of one or two fire trucks speeding through the streets of Boston as they whiz by, while he stands on the street and contemplates the number 5 in front of his eyes. DeMuth was a Futurist painter, a school of painting that originated in Italy and had a profound impact on the art of painting between the two world wars.

Not only that, but Dadaism and Surrealism also played a pivotal role in the United States and opened up a whole new area of artistic practice, freeing it from the traditional rules of expression. Between the two world wars, a number of artistic movements had already taken on the contours of an "American art", such as the Vernacular and Social Realism, which promoted the collective values of the American tradition and exposed the collective values of the American people.

And it wasn't until after World War II that the United States was completely free of European influence.

The name "Abstract Expressionism" was coined by a journalist for The New Yorker. These artists did not form factions, but created and developed their own styles independently. Almost all of them lived in New York in the 1940s, and for most of that time they wanted to create large-scale abstract paintings.

These artists had a tragic life, with World War I, the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and life did not treat them particularly well. Asher Gorky, an Armenian-born man who escaped the pogroms against the Armenian community during the Ottoman period in Turkey, only to see his mother die of starvation; Willem de Kooning, an immigrant of Dutch descent; Mark Rothko, born into a poor Jewish family in Russia, who encountered anti-Semitism; and Jackson Pollock, the 5th child of a poor farmer's family, who, by the time he was 12 years old moved eight times and became an alcoholic as a teenager.

Having suffered so much, these artists could no longer express their despair in the pictorial language of their forebears; they had to break with the past and create something new. The figures in their works are fragmented, bizarre, and not even human, but never tragic.

For some, the desire and need to be seen and to be inspired by the process of painting was a necessity. Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Crane, among others, made paintings in which the movement, the marks, the process, the behavior, were clearly visible, and it was this that prompted the critic Harold Rosenberg to use the term "action painting" in 1952 to refer to the ways in which these artists painted.

For others, the work seems to be more visceral and deliberate, lending a huge color field as an artistic expression of their confrontation with the world. Critic Clement Greenberg called them the "Color Field Painters" in 1955, and they included Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Robert Motherwell, among others.

In the 1960s, the United States saw a boom in consumer goods production and an unprecedented growth in leisure activities. Products were mass-produced and cheap enough for everyone to afford; cars had spacious interiors and bright colors; houses could be purchased with a loan, but it could take a lifetime to pay it off ...... In a consumer society, productivity had gained unprecedented growth, and people believed that they could live a better life with the help of money and a variety of home equipment.

Thus, a new mode of life was born. While people determined how to spend their leisure time through movie posters, and chose a wide range of goods and services to make their lives easier through advertisements, artists were inspired by this new world, and used their works to depict, reflect, interpret, and even criticize this reality. In this way, an unprecedented art, Pop Art, blossomed like a flower. This kind of pop art is accessible and understandable to everyone.

Andy Warhol, known as the "Pope of Pop", revived the screen-printing technique usually used to print posters, and began to reproduce images in large numbers in series. Such as in "Marilyn", Marilyn Monroe, a head of curly hair, the corners of the mouth with a smile, and impeccable red lips, how to see how beautiful, always so young. Warhol printed a large number of images using Hollywood movie stars as creative material.

"Magic mirror, magic mirror, am I the most beautiful woman?" The question still hangs in the air, but Andy Warhol presents us with an ideal world full of beautiful women. These beautiful women are always staying by the pool and killing time with cocktails, is their life really perfect? Influenced by pop art, sculpture is also different from before.

For example, Andy Warhol stacked the supermarket cleaning wipe is a sculpture; Klaas Oldenburger's giant plastic sandwiches look funny and ridiculous, but occupied the exhibition halls of the major museums; Jasper Johns with painted bronze cast city beer cans ...... realism is unstoppable. Artists find ways to re-present the icons of this new social paradigm in order to give it a unique meaning, repetition, reproduction in the original mold or giant size, take your pick.

Any creation is an expression, but nowhere is it freer than in the United States. Street corners, subway aisles are left many civilian creators of graffiti, in many countries, this behavior may be regarded as damage to public property behavior, but in the United States, but also allows these works into the museum. Graffiti, to face the police increasingly strict control, creation means improvisation and rapid, it is often a flash of insight after the masterpiece, with a more natural, more intimate infectious force.

For thousands of years, art has been a kind of highbrow thing that not every one of us can appreciate, but the development of art genres in the United States has spawned a more approachable, casual, and humane style that allows every one of us to use it, understand it, and master it. Modeling, one person for a few hours to earn enough for the day's living expenses.

In the US, art is freer, more inclusive, and more vibrant, and it's now closer to life than our previous understanding of art, and has become an art for all, for anyone who wants to use it. The popularity of pop art in the United States has spread to the whole world, making it possible for each of us to become an artist and join in the art carnival, which is a brand new promotion of art, I must say.