Ash Can School

Ash Can School
The Ash Can School was a group of artists in the United States that were active from 1908 - 1918, and included artists such as Davies, Henri, and Hopper.

The Ash Can School group was more revolutionary in subject matter than style. The artists strived to paint what was real about urban life, finding beauty in that truth.

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Ash Can School Group of American artists active from 1908 to 1918. It included members of The Eight such as Henri and Davies; Hopper was also part of the Ash Can group. Their work featured scenes of urban realism.

Ash Can School : A group of early twentieth-century American artists who often painted pictures of New York city life.

Ash Can School paintings have a loose and spontaneous style, very different from the polished techniques taught in the American art academies of the period.

The Ash Can School, sometimes contracted as the Ashcan School, is defined as a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, ...

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In the opening decade of the 20th century, a group of New York realists replaced the dictum of "art for art's sake" with a new philosophy, "art for life's sake" ... HumanitiesWeb -The Ashcan School ...

The Ashcan School (New York City, 1908 - 1913), also called the Ash Can School, is defined as a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, ...

Following its great success, Realism was particularly influential in the development of many significant art movements including The Ash Can School, the American Scene Painters, Surrealism, Hyper-realism and Magic Realism.

2 (1912) and The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (1915-23) by Marcel Duchamp; and Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (1936) by Salvador Dali. Other modern and contemporary styles represented include: the Ash Can school ...

Sometimes the term Ash Can School is mistakenly synonymous with The Eight, but The Eight refers only to a group that exhibited together at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908 (see Glossary). Source: "Brittanica Encyclopedia of American Art" ...

See also: Movement, School, Painting, American art, Subject matter