A Week Ib the Life of New York Art Students
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Thirty-Fourth Street and 5th Avenue
Past Joseph Pennell.
Crayon over pencil sketch.
The Eight
These five, together with Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Ernest Lawson (1873-1939) and Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924), were all members of 'The Viii', a short-lived group started by Henri in 1908. They were primarily a group of artists, who happened to be united in their opposition to the conservative National Academy of Design, and who shared a determination to inject some everyday journalistic-type realism into their art. They exhibited together only one time (in 1908), at New York's Macbeth Gallery. Information technology was the first self-selected exhibition by a group of artists, without a jury or prizes, and created a sensation. It subsequently toured America under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Eight were also involved in organizing the Arsenal Show in 1913, which exposed the American public to mod fine art. In addition, in 1917, they organized the Lodge of Independent Artists along with George Bellows and others. Information technology is important to note that of the Eight, only v (Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Shinn, and Luks) painted the gritty urban Ashcan subjects, while iii (Henri, Glackens and Prendergast) as well contributed several masterpieces to the American Impressionism movement.
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A Form of American Realism
In America at the start of the 20th century, a new generation of artists was emerging. While acknowledging the contribution of older American artists like Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), John Vocalist Sargent (1856-1925), Whistler (1834-1903) and Winslow Homer (1836-1910), some members of this new generation were interested in creating a new type of art that reflected life in the growing cities across America. Thus - in sharp dissimilarity to the conventional and rather genteel American Impressionism that represented the most popular American art of the period - these American Realists prepare about capturing the spontaneous moments of urban life. The Ashcan School was a core-group inside this larger movement of American Realism, and shocked viewers with its "art for life'southward sake" rather than the more conventional "art for art's sake." For U.s. collections which include works by Ashcan School members, encounter: Fine art Museums in America.
Characteristics of Ashcan Painting
Rather than trying to create dazzler, Ashcan artists found it in the truth and existent-life quality of their paintings. These canvases capture the authentic experience of 1900s New York Urban center, depicting drunks, prostitutes, slum dwellers, crowded tenements, fume-filled rooms, battle rings, alleys, and confined. They have a typically spontaneous style, in contradistinction to the rigid techniques of academic art promoted in early on 20th century American art schools. Paint was applied thickly in rapid, obvious brushstrokes, using a muted or nighttime palette. Due to their focus on low-life genre scenes, Ashcan artists were dubbed the "revolutionary black gang" and "apostles of ugliness". Their ideology and way of art was later on maintained by the American Scene Painting movement.
One of the commencement collectors of works by artists belonging to the Ashcan Schoolhouse was Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942). Come across her 1916 Portrait by Robert Henri.
Artists of the Ashcan School
Robert Henri (1865-1921)
Built-in in Cincinnati, Henri'southward afterward works are characterized past heavy impasto, a darker palette and rapid, slashing brushwork giving his works a visible sense of immediacy.
Everett Shinn (1876-1953)
Born in New Jersey, he was the youngest member of the Ashcan group. He preferred to pigment scenes of theatre and music hall life, rather than everyday working course scenes.
George Benjamin Luks (1866-1933)
Born in Pennsylvania, he lived on the Lower Eastward Side of Manhattan and taught for several years at the Fine art Students League. Typically he highlights the joy and dazzler in the life of the poor instead of the tragedy.
William Glackens (1870-1938)
Born in Philadelphia, he often painted the neighbourhood around his art studio in Washington Square Park. Also, similar to the classical Impressionist Edouard Manet, he conveyed the glitter of urban nightlife, to which he added canvases of mundane events similar daily shopping.
John Sloan (1871-1951)
Born in Pennsylvania, Sloan was the well-nigh politically committed of the Ashcan artists. In 1910, his focus on American social weather led him to join the Socialist Party. A teacher for over 20 years at the Art Students League, his pupils included Alexander Calder the inventor of mobiles and a pioneer of kinetic fine art; the famous Abstruse Expressionist Barnett Newman, and the influential sculptor David Smith.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858–1924)
Canadian-born American mail-Impressionist painter in oils and watercolours. He usually depicted people involved in leisure activities. A friend of the French Intimist painters Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) and Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), Prendergast's personal "mosaic" manner employed contrasting, precious stone-similar colors, and patternlike flat areas of unmodulated colour.
Arthur Bowen Davies (1863–1928)
Born in New York state, he trained at the Chicago Academy of Pattern and briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago. Now all-time remembered for his part in promoting modern art, he was the main organizer of the Arsenal Show in 1913.
Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
Famous American realist painter, born in New York state, best known for his remarkable genre-paintings that consciously or unconsciously captured the loneliness of 20th century urban life.
George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925) Jerome Myers (1867-1940)
Born in Columbus Ohio, Bellows was an athlete, and hence all-time known for his sports pictures painted with a bright sense of movement and energetic brush strokes. His strong social conscience is obvious in his pictures of crowded slum tenements. Achieved belatedly success with lithographs.
Born in Virginia to a poor family unit, his deprived background led him to pigment New York's slums, though in a romanticized way rather than in the politically motivated way of the Socialist Realists. A founder member of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors that organized the Arsenal show.
Ashcan School Paintings
The artists of the Ashcan Schoolhouse were responsible for ane or 2 of the greatest paintings of the 20th century, within the idiom of urban genre scenes. Come across, for example, the following:
• William Glackens: Coney Isle Fruit Stand (1898) Private Collection
• Everett Shinn: Cross Streets of New York (1899) Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC
• Maurice Prendergast: Central Park (1901) Whitney Museum of American Fine art
• Robert Henri: Snow in New York (1902) National Gallery of Art DC
• George B. Luks: Allen Street (1905) Hunter Museum of American Art
• George B. Luks: The Wrestlers (1905) Boston Museum of Fine Arts
• George Bellows: A Stag at Sharkey's (1907) Cleveland Museum of Art
• John Sloan: Wake of the Ferry (1907) Phillips Collection, Washington DC
• Edward Hopper: Summer Interior (1909) Whitney Museum of American Art
• George Bellows: Both Members of This Society (1909) National Gallery of Fine art DC
• William Glackens: Italo-American Celebration (1912) Boston MFA
• John Sloan: McSorley's Bar (1912) Detroit Plant of Arts
• George Bellows: Cliff Dwellers (1913) Los Angeles County Museum of Fine art
• George Luks: Houston Street (1917) Saint Louis Art Museum
• John Sloan: Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street (1928) Individual Collection
• Arthur B. Davies: Elysian Fields (undated) Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Compared to Social Realism
Curiously, despite their focus on slum-life and other gritty subjects, Ashcan School artists are at present seen every bit far less unconventional than they themselves supposed. Grounded generally in the 19th century, rather than the 20th century, they were more interested in the picturesque aspects of their compositions than in the moral or social problems involved. It was not until after The Depression, and the emergence of Social Realism during the 1930s, that these issues became a force in American art.
For examples of regionalist realism, see the Iowan Grant Woods (1892-1942) and the Pennsylvanian painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009).
Source: http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/ashcan-school.htm
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