Rockwell Kent

 

This Saturday Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk had a lot of new visitors – nearly a dozen new members joined the Club. Some of them travelled quite a long time from the peripheral towns of the oblast (Pavlograd, Dniprodzerzhinsk and others).
Today the WOA centre was visited by the local TV reporters and the key persons of the facility were interviewed for a news program.
The official session of the WOA’s English Speaking Club was dedicated to the art of the significant American illustrator Rockwell Kent.  In the 1920s and 30s, Kent illustrated classic books, such as Moby Dick.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature.
Rockwell Kent was a revolutionary as well as an artist, and his subject matter reveals his social and philosophical interests. He loved to travel to remote, sometimes harsh environments, such as Alaska and Greenland. Many of his works center around the relationship between humanity and the environment. Several YouTube videos and slide shows demonstrated Kent’s art.
In the discussion of the painter’s works the club members compared Kent’s graphics and landscapes. The majority favored his naturalistic depiction of nature. The funny and tricky task that followed was to guess the subject of his graphic works used in advertising.To complement the information about Rockwell Kent a book display was offered to the visitors of the WOA Center.
In the USA the painter became well-known for his illustrations to the American classical novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville. Several copies of the book were presented – both in English and in Ukrainian, the later with Kent’s illustration.In the Soviet Union the painter was very popular until his death. Numerous art albums illustrate his landscape skills. 
The book display increases the interest of the visitors to the topic of art and painting.
The number of participants -  29.