John Gast's Painting, American Progess, Shows Human Progress Requires Sacrifice, Suffering, and Struggle

In fact, as you move towards the right side of the picture the color gets brighter. The meaning of the light and dark of the painting symbolizes the land known in the United States and the land unknown. The west is considered dark and strange, but the east is welcomed and prosperous. American progress includes numerous roles around the screen. The next thing to note next is the dominant person in the middle of the picture. This character is a woman like an angel, and the above light is clearly radiated.

"American Progress" is a painter, a printmaker, a peace writer born in Prussia, painted in 1872 by John Gast who spent most of his life in Brooklyn, New York. I live and work. "American Progress" is a parable of "obvious fate" and is widely used in color prints. Currently hosted by the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, California, in the western United States of America. American progress has become a pioneering example of the art of western America. This picture plays a role as an allegory of "obvious fate" and expansion of the West to the West. This 12.75 x 16.75 inch picture was ordered and often copied by George Crawfut, a Western American travel guide publisher in 1872. The lady in the center is called "progress" and her head is "Croft 's Imperial Star". Progress advances from bright east to dark and dangerous west, white settlers are following her, walking and riding horse-drawn carriages, horseback riding, conestoga wagons, truck trains and steam locomotives

The picture on the right is a picture depicting the concept of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny. It was painted in 1872 by John Gust (1842-1893) and is known as the "frontier spirit" of American progress. This picture is drawn with knowledge and enlightenment books while moving towards the West as a symbol of America as a symbol of America, guided by the goddess of Colombia and being protected. This picture is a graphical representation of the concept of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny. If you look closely, you will see people including American Indians, Pioneers, Pioneers, Explorants, and Peasants. History and progress of foot, horse, covered wagon, freight car, canal steamboat, rail transport system. Communication system represented by Pony Express rider and telegraph line

The picture, "Advance in America" ​​in 1872 by John Gust, shows a white woman floating in the plain of the United States. The female statue is a depiction of Colombia. She wore an empire star on her forehead, a textbook under her right arm, and a forgotten pioneer who kicked out indigenous peoples, bisons and other animals from the picture. Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's "Native American History" (Beacon Press, 2014) explains the importance of the Colombian script.