Thomas Hart Benton
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Thomas Hart Benton
Harlem Renaissance was in its heyday. The Harlem Renaissance was in the 1920s that linked to writers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, and Countee Cullen. The artists at the time were Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Malvin G. Johnson, William H. Johnson, and the famous painter Thomas Hart Benton.
The paintings of Thomas Hart Benton were admired by each viewer; people in the twenties. Most of the paintings were done in the twenties which reflected how the society was at the time. The paintings by Benton had more values of the elements of art and the principles of design. Benton used a variety of shades, texture, values, depth, and all the principles and elements. America owes the art genre of regionalism to Benton for his contribution of altering contemporary art...