Federal Art Project and Ben Shahn

本·沙恩是一位伟大的美国艺术家、社会活动家和摄影师。他以“社会现实主义”作品而闻名，这些作品代表了他的社会和政治观点。Shahn可能是20世纪美国最重要的插画家和叙事艺术家之一。Shahn出生于立陶宛的科夫诺（考纳斯）。1902年，他的父亲因涉嫌革命活动被流放到西伯利亚。1906年，他的家人移民到美国，住在纽约布鲁克林的威廉斯堡。他早期的排字训练似乎影响了他后来的版画和绘画。除了他的社会和政治观点，我还追溯了这位杰出艺术家的个人生活。他的职业生涯开始和结束于犹太主题的工作，但残酷地抛弃了他的第一任犹太妻子蒂莉·戈德斯坦（Tillie Goldstein）和他们的两个孩子，娶了一个基督徒女人伯纳达·布莱森（Bernarda Bryson）。沙恩创作了一张海报，抗议1927年对巴尔特罗梅奥·万泽蒂和尼科洛·萨科的电刑。1931年，他出版了《萨科与万泽蒂的受难记》，这使他在美国一举成名。对他来说，Sacco-Vanzetti案证明了思想自由和言论自由处于空洞和危急的境地。大萧条时期的美国总统富兰克林·d·罗斯福想要做一件高尚的事情，并支持绘画、戏剧和其他创造性艺术。他的家长式作风使联邦政府对文化艺术的补贴成为可能。在罗斯福的领导下，美国政府通过两个机构向艺术家提供补贴：财政部的绘画和雕塑处（后来的美术处）；以及美国工程振兴署（WPA）的联邦艺术项目。沙恩受到这些新政艺术项目的影响，并加入了农场安全管理局（FSA）的一个摄影组，与沃克·埃文斯和多萝西娅·兰格一起记录美国南方。早年，FSA的摄影项目强调农村生活和大萧条对农村生活的悲惨影响。然而，在后来的几年里，摄影师们把注意力转向了第二次世界大战，并帮助动员国家资源反对欧洲法西斯主义。少

Ben Shahn was a great American artist, social activist, and photographer. He is well-known for his works of `Social Realism', which represent his social and political views. Shahn is probably one of the 20th century's most important illustrators and narrative artists in the U.S.Shahn was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. His father was exiled to Siberia for alleged revolutionary activities in 1902. In 1906 his family emigrated to America and lived in Williamsburg of Brooklyn, New York. His earlier training as a typographer seems to have affected his later prints and paintings.In addition to his social and political views, I also traced this brilliant artist's personal life. He began and ended his career in working on Jewish themes, but cruelly abandoned his first Jewish wife, Tillie Goldstein, and their two children to marry a Christian woman, Bernarda Bryson.Shahn created a poster to protest the execution of Bartrolomeo Vanzetti and Nicolo Sacco who were electrocuted in 1927. He pain … More ted "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti," in 1931 which immediately made him famous in America. To him, the Sacco-Vanzetti Case was a proof that freedom of thought and freedom of expression were in a hollow and critical situation.Franklin D.Roosevelt, the President of the U.S. during the period of the Great Depression, wanted to do a noble thing, and supported painting, theater, and other creative arts. His paternalism made possible federal subsidies to cultural arts. Under Roosevelt's leadership, American government granted subsidies to artists through two agencies: Section of Painting and Sculpture (later Section of Fine Arts) in the Treasury Department; and Federal Art Project in the Works Progress Administration (WPA).Shahn was affected by these New Deal art projects, and joined a photographic group at the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in documenting American South with Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. In early years, FSA photo project emphasized a rural life and the miserable impact of the Great Depression on it. In later years, however, the photographers turned their attention to World War II, and helped mobilize national resources against European fascism. Less