Three Artists of the 20th Century; The Man Behind the Artist The striking paintings of the three featured artists have made them some the most beloved American artists of the twentieth century. ... A true Renaissance man, DuBois has merged his love of art, poetry, and music into an interesting and diverse career. ... In the sixties his subjects broadened to include political portraits, poverty, race relations and the space exploration. ... During WWI, the Navy refused young Norman's enlistment request for being 8 pounds underweight. ... The thing one has to remember in seeing my f...

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The artists aimed to represent their subject as realistically as possible, particularly in terms of form and colour. ... His paintings however showed the same themes of exposing injustices but his approach was less simple and focused more on realistic representation of both colour and form. ... It shows a family lying murdered in a bedroom-a father in his nightshirt and nightcap laying on the body of his child with a female figure in the shadows on the left and the head of an old man projecting into the picture at the right. ... We are especially concerned with one family group, the young peas...

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