Writing that emphasizes the importance of a regional setting and tradition to individuals' lives. While regional writing tends to focus on issues or experiences that are native to the place with which it is concerned, the best examples of regionalism have universal appeal as well.
An art movement of the 1930s that focused on portraying aspects characteristic of American life. Midwestern painters are identified most closely with the trend, depicting scenes of rural America, often with a nostalgic tone, but some regionalists also focused on urban life.
a movement that developed in Indonesia's provinces emphasising the need for each region to maintain its own identity and independence
A movement in American 20th-century art that peaked during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Paintings of this STYLE celebrate life in small-town, rural America. The most important regionalist artists, Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood, were all from the Midwest. Their styles, though different, have traditional, conservative, nationalistic overtones.
In literature, regionalism, or local-color fiction, was a perspective of literature that gained popularity in America after the Civil War. Local-color writers depicted nearly every region of the United States, leading realism to their stories by describing customs and manners and re-creating dialects. Because these authors usually set their stories in their regions as they remembered them from their own youth, however, they often blended realism with nostalgic sentiment.
In art, regionalism is a realist modern American art movement wherein artists shunned the city and rapidly developing technological advances to focus on scenes of rural life. Regionalist style was at its height from 1930 to 1935, and is best-known through the so-called "Regionalist Triumvirate" of Grant Wood in Iowa, Thomas Hart Benton in Missouri, and John Steuart Curry in Kansas. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Regionalist art was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland.