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Jazz

Jazz
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  Jazz has been an influence in many artist's work, from painting to other forms of music.
  Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs.
  The white man began to imitate them in the 1920's and the music form caught on and
  became very popular. Two artists that were influenced by jazz were Jean-Michel
  Basquiat and Stuart Davis. The influence is quite evident in many of their works, such
  as Horn Players, by Basquiat, and Swing Landscape, by Davis.

  Stuart Davis was born in Philadelphia in 1894. He grew up in an artistic environment, his
  father was art director of a Philadelphia newspaper, who had employed Luks, Glackens,
  and other members of the Eight. He studied with Robert Henri from 1910 to 1913, made
  covers and drawings for the social realist periodical The Masses, which was associated
  with the Ash-can School, and exhibited watercolors in the Armory Show, which made
  an overwhelming impact on him. After a visit to Paris in 1928 he introduced a new note
  into U.S. cubism, basing himself on its synthetic rather than its analytical phase. Using
  natural forms, particularly forms suggesting the characteristic environment of American
  life, he rearranged them into flat poster-like patterns with precise outlines and sharply
  contrasting colors.

  He later went on to pure abstract patterns, into which he often introduced lettering,
  suggestions of advertisements, and posters. The zest and dynamism of such works as
  Swing Landscape reflect his interest in jazz, which Davis considered to be the
  counterpart to abstract art. Davis is often considered to be the outstanding American
  artist to work in a cubism idiom. He made witty and original use of it and created a
  distinctive American style, for however abstract his works became he always claimed
  that every image he used had its source in observed reality. Davis once...