Resumen de Stuart Davis's 'American painting', 1932
A consideration of the artist Stuart Davis's American painting, shown at the First Biennial of Contemporary American Painting at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1932. The painting was executed using a moderately progressive style, employing inconsistent scale and rendering objects and people in a linear manner. The seemingly discordant subjects that can be identified in Davis's work comprise a lively survey of modern life in the U.S., referring to innovative airplane design, speed and distance records, famous personalities, jazz music, distinctive architecture, progressive painters, gangster activities, and film special effects. In this painting, Davis used a clean-lined style to capture the rhythm of contemporary urban events, and to visually insist that art and life in the U.S. should be defined by all that was vital and modern.
