Section II Background

Academy system emergence

1820s

Most powerful arts organization in the 19th century

National Academy of Design

Most rewarded style by the National Academy of Design

Impressionist

Unofficial leader of the Ashcan School

Robert Henri

Cities Robert Henri studied in prior to New York

Philadelphia and Paris

Artists mentored by Robert Henri

Sloan, Glackens, Bellows, Luks

Hallmark feature of Robert Henri and his students' artistic style

Impasto brushwork

European artists inspiring impasto for Henri and his students

Velazquez, Hals, Manet

Nickname of 'The Eight'

Ashcan School

First showcase location of The Eight's work

Macbeth Gallery in Manhattan

Building for the International Exhibition of Modern Art

69th Regiment Armory building

Organizers of The Armory Show

Arthur B. Davies, Walt Khun, Walter Pach

Number of modern artworks displayed at the Armory Show

1,300

What Futurism depicts

Speed, technology, modern life, and dynamism

Location of the Futurism movement

Italy

Leila Mechlen's term for modernist abstraction

Lawless Art

President of the National Academy of Design who supported the Armory Show

John White Alexander

Origin of the Dada art movement

Switzerland

Definition of ready-mades

Ordinary consumer products that are titled and displayed in art spaces

Father of conceptual art

Marcel Duchamp

Product displayed in In Advance of the Broken Arm by Duchamp

Metal snow shovel

Movement Alfred Stieglitz was first associated with

Pictorialism

Argument of the pictorialism movement

Photography as a fine art

How the 291 art gallery got its name

Address on 5th Avenue

Journal published by Alfred Stieglitz featuring important photographs

Camera Work

Unconventional display methods used by the 291 art gallery

Highlight few works, neutral white walls, lots of space between pieces

Rise in popularity of the Pictorialism movement

1890s