American perspectives

I must begin by saying that american perspectives is probably one of the most uniteresting topics we've seen so far, apart from the lost generation which I like, but maybe only because I like the movie midnight in paris and the modenist painters. But maybe it was because of the effects the war had and the fact that people were a lost generation and were in shock.

The lost generation

The lost generation was good due to the influence by many other member of the lost generation. If they had been on their own we probably wouldn't know who they were, but since everyone was in paris and knew each other, the influences must've been huge, even great painters had influcence on their ideas and how they saw the world.
The movie midnight in paris, shows how they look back and they think the golden age was in the renaissance, yet we look back at them and think that is the golden age, and I think that is quite true but we can't help it because whatever comes up now or at the time we're living we see as normal or not so good, probably just a few things, and the ones in the past have had time to be appreciated and discover their genius.

The eight

The paintings by the eight all seem to be quite sad or depressed, the brushwork and mostly the colors gives the paintings that effect of sad dark feeling. The brushwork, as its a bit messy and aggresive, along with the colors which are not bright, in most of them, seems as if the painting depicts still life, although, they are incredibly well made and realistic.

American modernist painters

I like these paintings a lot mainly because they took cubism and took from it what I don't like about cubism (although I do like cubism a lot) which is the simplicity it seems to have and that the painters probably didn't have to work all that much, but american modernists do. 
Marsden Hatley, although, i think over did the portrait of the german officer because all of his other paintings (apart from New mexico landscape) seem to be the same, not that they aren't good, but they seem a bit repetitive and they look like different zooms or angles to the first one. But almost all of the other paintings are very good, the tulips, the cities, the beaches, and everything looks so realistic and colorfull and sometimes they border on surrealism and I love that. Probably the best group of painters in the american painters in general. And my favourite certainly is "Interior of the fourth dimension" because it is quite abstract an cubist and the title is very interesting.