Charles Demuth
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Charles DemuthLancaster, PA
Charles Demuth was born on November 8 in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. When Charles was six, his family moved to the home next to the Demuth Tobacco Shop which
had been operated by his family since 1770.
Demuth often went to the farmers market to buy fresh fruits and vegetables for his still life paintings
He would also do paintings of flowers from
his garden.Look at how he has
divided up the negative space.
Circus performers were another subject
that he loved to paint
Demuth loved to paint scenes from Lancaster, the city
where he lived.Notice how he uses different points of
view in one painting. This was a technique used by artists who worked in the Cubist
style.
This painting is by another
famous Cubist painter, Pablo
Picasso.
How are they the same?How are they different?
Charles Demuth
Pablo Picasso
In the 1920’s, Demuth was part of
a group of artists called “Precisionists”. They were interested
in buildings and machinery as subjects
for art
The Great Figure Among the rainand lightsI saw the figure 5in goldon a redfire truckmovingtenseunheededto gong clangssiren howlsand wheels rumblingthrough the dark city
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems
Charles Demuth died in 1935 at the
age of 51.This is one of his last
paintings, entitled “The Home of thee
Brave”.