Visual arts of the United States

Visual arts of the United States refers to the history of painting and visual art in the United States. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style. A parallel development taking shape in rural America was the American craft movement, which began as a reaction to the industrial revolution. Developments in modern art in Europe came to America from exhibitions in New York City such as the Armory Show in 1913. After World War II, New York replaced Paris as the center of the art world. Painting in the United States today covers a huge range of styles.

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• 1 Eighteenth century
• 2 Nineteenth century
• 3 Twentieth Century
  • 3.1 The American Southwest
  • 3.2 Harlem Renaissance
  • 3.3 New Deal Art
  • 3.4 Abstract Expressionism
  • 3.5 After Abstract Expressionism
  • 3.6 Other Modern American Movements
• 4 Notable figures
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 Sources