ashcan school
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Ashcan School
1891-1918
Characteristics
• Realism- Shows how things are not how they “should be”
• Gritty urban scenes that find beauty in drab and ugly aspects of life
• Shows the need for social reform
• Captures the spontaneous moments of everyday life
“The Eight”
• Robert Henri • George Luks • John Sloan • Everett Shinn • George Bellows • Arthur B. Davis • Ernest Lawson • Maurice Prendergast
Usually paintings of …
• Crowds
• Slums
• Clogged streets
• Ragged children
• Sports events
• Clowns
• Sunny afternoons
Robert Henri
June 18, 1865 – July 19, 1925
Snow in the City
• Shows realism, displays what the streets of New York really look like.
• Shows the beauty in a gritty urban scene.
• Exhibits everyday moments in New York.
Chico
• Realism- shows what urban people looked like at the time
• Finds beauty in a ragged clothed child
• Demonstrates the need for social reform due to the artist presents him as lower class
George Bellows
August 1882- January 8, 1925
Cliff Dwellers• Demonstrates realism,
because this is what urban streets in the city actually looked like
• Shows the need for social reform, because it shows the crowded, poor, and grungy city streets
• Shows beauty in a gritty urban scene.
• Captures the spontaneous moments of everyday life
Stag at Sharkey’s
• Shows spontaneous moments of everyday (illegal boxing match)
• Demonstrates the need for social reform because citizens were going behind the Govt.’s back and having illegal boxing matches.
John Sloan
August 2,1871- September 7, 1951
Election Night
• Shows the spontaneous moments of everyday life.
• Shows social reform (rich people celebrating the election of their candidates)
A Woman’s Work
• Shows spontaneous moments in everyday life ( lady doing laundry)
• Shows beauty in urban scenes
George Luks
August 13, 1867 – October 29, 1933
From The Verdict
• Shows the need for social reform (Government = Octopus, Citizens = City)
• Realism- portrays how the government really was and it’s intentions
Bleeker and Carmine Streets
• Realism- shows how people lived in the urban parts of the city
• The need for social reform- poor people staring into the windows of a food store
• Shows the beauty of the streets and buildings