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Jan 30, 2015 · There are rural and urban scenes, dramatic images of black laborers in the fields, and the New York City skyline. There are vivid portrayals of coal miners, steel workers, cowboys, farmers, dancers, prostitutes, businessmen, and a preacher. The entire country works hard and plays hard.
America Today is more than a traditional mural, it is a space, an environment that Benton designed in collaboration with the New School's architect, Joseph Urban. It immerses the visitor in a profoundly transitional period in American history, the cultural rupture between the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.
Director: The Mimic. Thomas Mazziotti (Writer/Director) started in television production at WPIX in New York before graduating both from college and into filmmaking at the same time. He attended the International Film and Television Workshops in Maine, as well as, Laguna Beach, CA.
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- Thomas F. Mazziotti
Modern and Contemporary Art. America Today. Thomas Hart Benton American. 1930–31. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 909. Offering a panorama of American life throughout the 1920s, America Today is a room-sized mural comprising ten canvas panels.
America Today is a mural comprising ten canvas panels, painted with egg tempera in 1930–1931 by the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. It provides a panorama of American life throughout the 1920s, based on Benton's extensive travels in the country.
Dec 14, 2014 · An era of human brawn: Thomas Hart Benton, “Instruments of Power” from “America Today.” (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) is remembered, and dismissed, as the most famous of the Regionalist painters who flourished in the 1930s.
America Today is a mural comprising ten canvas panels, painted with egg tempera in 1930–1931 by the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. It provides a panorama of American life throughout the 1920s, based on Benton's extensive travels in the country.
