Sentences with word «ashcan»

He was also one of the founders of Ashcan school of American art.

Robert Henri Biography of Ashcan School Painter, New York Cityscapes.

In 1920 he made his way to New York, fulfilling a long held ambition to become an artist through formal studies at the Art Students League with Ashcan painter John Sloan.

However, unlike the Abstract Expressionists and other Modernists of Ribak's generation, his transition as an artist is unique as the only Ashcan artist who applied that way of seeing to abstractions of the land.

This resource booklet is provided by the Joan Mitchell Foundation's Student Opportunities & Support (SOS) Program, the Museum of Arts and Design, Parsons and Ashcan Studio of Art to help prepare students and parents for applying to colleges and universities with art programming.

He forgets how modern painters take each moment at a time, from Ashcan realists to Jackson Pollock's drips.

So strong in Ashcan, American Impressionism, and other styles, this addition joins gifts by other collectors from Virginia, including the Cochranes, that have made the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts one of the most important centers for the study and appreciation of American art in all its richness and complexity.»

The collection begins with Ashcan School painting and follows the major movements of the twentieth century in America, with strengths in Modernism and Social Realism, Precisionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Postminimalism, art centered on identity and politics that came to the fore in the 1980s and 1990s, and contemporary work.

[5] It started the careers of such artists as Ashcan School painter John Sloan, Edward Hopper, whose first one - man exhibit was held there in 1920, and social realists Reginald Marsh and Isabel Bishop.

He enrolled at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, the artist and influential teacher around whom congregated the so - called Ashcan school of urban realists.

An important American modern landscape by Ashcan school artist Alexander O. Levy.

Robert Henri (1865 - 1929) Leader of the Group of Eight and the New York Ashcan School of painting.

If Ashcan painting looks like a dead end today, we should not forget that it gave birth to two indisputably great American painters: Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis.

Reportedly discovered and mentored by former museum director and art historian Jerome A. Donson, it was Donson who dubbed Jansen as the innovator of «modern urban expressionism» and as reminiscent of the early 20th century Ashcan School of art.

Echoes of Ashcan realism are obvious in paintings of train tracks or the boardwalk at Coney Island.

Other American painters represented include: George Bellows, Alexander Calder, Mary Cassatt and Childe Hassam, (see also American Impressionism), Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri (see also Ashcan School), Charles Willson Peale, Winslow Homer, Hiram Powers, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Revere, Frederic Remington, Augustus Saint - Gaudens, John French Sloan, Gilbert Stuart, Andy Warhol, and Andrew Wyeth.

The other was a college friend, back when painting meant geometric abstraction and the only Ashcan School was a mound of dirt on a gallery floor, maybe with some mirrors and torn rubber thrown in for good measure.

Since the band split in the mid-1980s, Simonon has focused on oil on canvas paintings inspired by 20th century realism and its documentation of the living conditions of the working classes, in particular the work of the American Ashcan School in turn of the century New York, and the «Kitchen Sink» school of painters of 1950s post-War Britain.

«Owing to its timeless insights about artmaking and life, art teachers traditionally assign Ashcan School painter Robert Henri's 1923 collection of writing, The Art Spirit, to beginning painters.

Dr. Coyle is an expert on Ashcan School artist John Sloan and The Eight, an influential group of 20th - century American painters.

Johnson supplemented this sponsorship with prizes awarded by the academy and funds earned working for Ashcan School painter George Luks.

So the fact that «Stuart Davis: In Full Swing,» a major, traveling exhibition now at the Whitney Museum of American Art, would omit Davis's entire early Ashcan development, and instead start its show in the 1920s, would seem to do a curious disservice to both Davis's own achievements and the understanding of the museum - going public.1

Roger Corman's ashcan copy remains the best version of Fantastic Four.

No one captured the isolation of the individual within the modern city like Edward did with his paintings [10] and these artworks were, in many ways, responsible for paving the conceptual road towards Abstract Expressionism, bridging its ideas with the concepts of the contemporary Ashcan School.

The museum also houses the largest collection of the early American modernist William Glackens, a member of the socially progressive Ashcan School, who was instrumental in fostering modern art in America.

Among those who conversed with canvas in the studios atop the Chelsea in this era were Impressionist Childe Hassam and Ashcan Schooler John French Sloan.

Although Ashcan School painters depict the authentic feel of 1900s New York City, with its drunks, prostitutes, crowded tenements, boxing rings, and bars, they were much less unconventional than they appeared.

In the early 1920s Graham received what is believed to be his first formal art training at the Art Students League, where he briefly assisted Ashcan School painter John Sloan.

This resource booklet is provided by the Joan Mitchell Foundation's Student Opportunities & Support (SOS) Program, the Museum of Arts and Design, Parsons and Ashcan Studio of Art, intended as an all - encompassing guide to the art school application process.

Led by Robert Henri, the so - called Ashcan School depicted the social transactions of an industrial, immigrant - laden, urban environment, capturing the thriving intensity of human beings.

In addition - and quite naturally, given his family and artistic roots in Ashcan «socialism» - he became involved in the left - wing politics of the time.

American Realism For an exemplar of the New York Ashcan school, read about the realist painter George Wesley Bellows (1882 - 1925).

The society portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) is also represented, as well as early 20th century Ashcan School paintings and abstract artworks by Georgia O Keeffe (1887 - 1986) among others.

[3] Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs» view, and she intended to be resolutely modern.

Ashcan artists frequently depicted the prosaic sites of the early twentieth - century American city.

(See also Ashcan School.)

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In the NYTimes, Ken Johnson reports that these two exhibitions of Ashcan art depict the old New York they loved.

The strategy had been promoted by Ashcan painter Robert Henri, who had visited there in 1916 and 1917, and probably inspired his friend John Sloan to go there, too.

The so - called Ashcan School consisted of a progressive group of early twentieth - century American painters and illustrators (sometimes called the New York Realists) who portrayed the urban reality of New York City life, in a gritty spontaneous unpolished style.

Secularized intellectuals have long been complacent in their apostasy because they were sure they weren't missing anything important in consigning God to the ashcan of history.

bob jumped the ashcan and his coffeegrounds remained undisturbed.

Whichever network decided to ashcan this sorry experiment was on the right track; someone should have gone a step further and left it sitting on a shelf somewhere.

«When you see all the ashcans outside, you know it's our school,» says Grosso, a project manager for the New York City School Construction Authority.

If democracy works, these misguided «reforms» will be consigned to the ashcan of history.