Tham khảo tài liệu 'department reading english 5', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Questions 38-50 What we today call American folk art was indeed art of by and for ordinary everyday folks who with increasing prosperity and leisure created a market for art of all kinds and especially for portraits. Citizens of prosperous essentially Line middle-class republics whether ancient Romans seventeenth-century Dutch 5 burghers or nineteenth-century Americans have always shown a marked taste for portraiture. Starting in the late eighteenth century the United States contained increasing numbers of such people and of the artists who could meet their demands. The earliest American folk art portraits come not surprisingly from New England especially Connecticut and Massachusetts for this was a wealthy and 10 populous region and the center of a strong craft tradition. Within a few decades after the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 the population was pushing westward and portrait painters could be found at work in western New York Ohio Kentucky Illinois and Missouri. Midway through its first century as a nation the United States s population had increased roughly five times and eleven new states had 15 been added to the original thirteen. During these years the demand for portraits grew and grew eventually to be satisfied by the camera. In 1839 the daguerreotype was introduced to America ushering in the age of photography and within a generation the new invention put an end to the popularity of painted portraits. Once again an original portrait became a luxury commissioned by the wealthy and executed by the 20 professional. But in the heyday of portrait painting from the late eighteenth century until the 1850 s anyone with a modicum of artistic ability could become a limner as such a portraitist was called. Local craftspeople sign coach and house painters began to paint portraits as a profitable sideline sometimes a talented man or woman who began 25 by sketching family members gained a local reputation and was besieged with requests for .
