1. Ashcan School, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art
Modern Art
Ashcan School, Regionalism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art

2. Modern Art
Defining modernism: modern refers to a period dating roughly from the 1860s through Modernism was not one movement, but rather a multiplicity of ‘isms’.
We are focusing on works post 1900.

3. Modernism is a desire to break away from impressionist art.
ditching the old rules of perspective, color, and composition in order to work out their own visions.
reinforced by scientific discoveries that there is a whole world behind things.
‘Reality’-whatever that was- became a far more abstract concept than it had been a generation earlier.
abandons intellect for intuition and depicts the world as they perceived it behind the veils of physical appearance.

4. The Armory Show
The event that was truly a catalyst for the growth of American Modernism was the Armory Show of 1913 in New York. This landmark event presented nearly 1,300 works representing 300 artists, about two thirds Americans, covering styles ranging from Ashcan to French Impressionist, Fauvist and Cubist. More than 75,000 people attended, and an entire generation of artists, collectors and critics were given a glimpse of the future.

5. The Ashcan School 1908-1918 "Apostles of Ugliness"
“Art for life’s sake" the Ash Can school shocked audiences with their depictions of the streets and city life.
Best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
The movement is most associated with a group known as The Eight, whose members included five painters associated with the Ashcan school.

6. The “Eight”

7. Robert Henri, Snow in New York, 1902

8. Everett Shin, Cross Streets of New York, 1899

9. George Bellows,Dempsey and Firpo

10. Stag at Sharkey’s -1909

11. Cliff Dwellers, 1913

12. McSorley's Bar 1912

13. Regionalism
Regionalism: Artists who shunned city life, and technological advances, to create scenes of rural life.
Regionalist style is best-known through the so-called "Regionalist Triumvirate" of Grant Wood in Iowa, Thomas Hart Benton in Missouri, and John Steuart Curry in Kansas.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Regionalist art was widely appreciated for its reassuring images of the American heartland.

14. The Top Dog of Regionalism Thomas Hart Benton
There is a certain irony in the fact that Regionalism, which was promoted as the very expression of American democracy, was the kissing cousin of both the official art of 1930s Russia and that of 1930s Germany

16. Boomtown-1928

17. Wreck of the ole 97 Train-1943

18. The Social History of Missouri

19. The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley-1934

20. The Hailstorm-1940

21. Grant Wood

22. American Gothic, 1930

23. Parodies

24. The Real Deal

25. Stone City, 1930

26. The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa

27. Iowa Cornfield

28. Andrew Wyeth, 2007

29. Wyeth Quotes
You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing.. then a work of art may happen.

30. Christina’s World

31. With water color, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Water color perfectly expresses the free side of my nature." - Andrew Wyeth

32. The Master Bedroom

33. I've never studied the Japanese
I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.

34. Wind From the Sea

35. Abstract Expressionism Post WW II
Abstract expressionism: originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act (e.g., action painting).
The emphasis is on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation. What does it feel like.
New York replaced Paris as the center of the artistic world.

36. Jackson Pollock “You don’t look at a rose and ask what it means”

37. Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950

38. Lavender Mist
It looks like an aerial photograph of a city, but it is a city that has somehow been blasted It also looks like astronomical photographs of nebulae and galaxies while at the same time close up details of this and other paintings resemble microscopic photos of molecular structures.

39. Jackson Pollock

40. Summertime

41. Autumn Rhythm Number 1, 1950

42. Full Fathom Five, 1947

43. Eyes in the Heat, 1946 "This is not art--it's a joke in bad taste
Eyes in the Heat, 1946 "This is not art--it's a joke in bad taste." --Reynolds News headline, 1959

44. Georgia O’Keefe

45. Radiator Building, Night, New York

46. Yellow Calla

47. White Camelia

48. Red Poppy

49. Red, White, and Blue

50. 1929 - Black Cross, New Mexico

51. Sky Above Clouds IV

52. Edward Hopper 'The man's the work
Edward Hopper 'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.'

53. Nighthawks

54. Automat

55. New York Movie 1939

56. Rooms By the Sea

57. Pop Art
"The term first appeared in Britain during the 1950s and referred to the interest of a number of artists in the images of mass media, advertising, comics and consumer products.
Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art.

58. The Big Guns of Pop Art
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein

59. Andy Warhol Turquoise Marilyn 1962

60. Mickey Mouse 1981

61. Campbell's Soup Can 1964

62. Whaam! 1963

63. Roy Lichtenstein Drowning Girl 1963