Introducing "The Jazz Age"--> Modernist Painting
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What times did the “Machine Age” cover?
The end of the First World War in 1918 to the stock market crash of 1929
How can the Roaring Twenties be described in the US?
Though this was a time of economic growth and cultural revolution, racial violence and labor strife were present
When did the academy system come to popularity?
The 1820s
What was the most powerful arts organization between 1900-1918?
National Academy of Design
What type of paintings did the NAD prefer?
Narrative or landscape paintings in an Impressionist style
Who was the unofficial leader of the Ashcan School?
Robert Henri
What was Henri’s occupation?
Portrait artist
Where did Henri study before living in New York?
Paris and Philadelphia
When did Henri move to New York?
1901
What artists did Henri mentor?
John Sloan, George Wesley Bellows, Benjamin Luks, and William Glackens
What were the artists Henri mentored known for?
Their representations of the grittier side of New York and working class peoples
What type of paintings style did the Ashcan School use?
Impasto
What older European artists used impasto?
Frans Hals, Diego Velazquez, and Edouard Monet
When and where was the first showcase by the Ashcan School?
1908 at the Macbeth Gallery in Manhattan
Who were the members of the Ashcan School>
Robert Henri, Benjamin Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Arthur B. Davies, Maurice Prendergast, Everrett Shinn, and Ernrest B. Lawson
What did the Ashcan School originally call themselves?
“The Eight”
What types of things did the Ashcan School draw?
Immigrant neighborhoods and working-class entertainment sites
What did the Ashcan School focus on that was unique at the time?
Social issues
When did the Ashcan School disband?
1917
Kenyon Cox was best known for what kind of style?
Renaissance Revival
When did Bellows create Stag at Sharkey’s?
1909
The Ashcan School committed to a _______ style
Naturalistic
What was the Armory Show’s official name?
International Exhibition of Modern Art
Where was the original showcasing of the Armory Show?
69th Regiment Armory in New York City
When was the Armory Show in NYC?
Februrary through March 1913
What cities did the Armory Show travel to?
New York, Chicago, and Boston
Who organized the Armory Show?
Arthur B. Davies, Walt Kuhn, and Walter Pach
How many works were displayed at the Armory Show?
1,300
How many people are estimated to have seen the Armory Show?
250,000 to 275,000
What artists at the Armory Show might have been familiar to Americans?
Claude Manet
What is Futurism and where did it originate?
Style focusing on speed, dynamism, and modern technology/life that originated in Italy
Who created N*de Descending a Staircase No.2 (1912)? (had to censor it or else the dragon will eat me srry)
Marcel Duchamp
What was shocking about N*de Descending a Staircase No.2?
It’s angular representation of the human form and its collapse of space and time
What did Leila Mechlen call modernist abstraction?
Lawless art
Who was the President of the NAD?
John White Alexander
How did Alexander react to the Amory Show?
He supported it
What was the effect of the Armory Show in America?
It encouraged American modernism and independent art spaces
Where did Dada originate and why?
Switzerland, 1915 to protest the war
Who were two French artists who relocated to New York?
Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia
When did Duchamp come to NY?
1915
What are “salons”?
Intellectual artistic gatherings hosted by wealthy people
What was another name for periodicals?
Little magazines
Dada is mainly concerned with _______ art
Conceptual
What is conceptual art?
Art where the meaning or concept behind the work is more important than what it looks like
What notion did Dada artists challenge?
Artistic quality was tied to skill and training
What did Dada artists embrace?
Chance, randomness, and nonsense
Dada artists explored the concept of ________
Authorship
When did Duchamp make In Advance of a Broken Arm?
1915
What is In Advance of a Broken Arm?
A metal snow shovel
What are ‘ready-mades’?
Consumer products turned into art
What parts of America did Duchmap love?
Architecture, plumbing, pop culture, and engineering
Who did Duchamp collaborate with?
Man Ray
Who is the father of conceptual art?
Marcel Duchamp
What nationality were Stieglitz’s parents?
German
Where did Stieglitz study in the 1880s?
Germany
When did Stieglitz settle in New York?
1890
What is Pictorialism?
An art movement that wants photography to be accepted as an art
When did Stieglitz start up Camera Work?
1903
When did 291 host African sculpture in its gallery?
1914
What art gallery did Stieglitz open?
291
291’s display methods are most similar to….?
Modern art venues
When did 291 close?
1917
What other galleries did Stieglitz operate?
Intimate Gallery and An American Place
What painters did Stieglitz champion?
Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Arthur G. Dove
What was Stieglit’z major flaw?
His definition of modernism was very rigid