The Ashcan Painters were honored on a series of American commemorative stamps. This image: George Bellows' Stag at Sharkey's. George Wesley Bellows ( August 12 or August 19, 1882 - January 8, 1925) was an American painter, known for his

The Ashcan School, 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, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods. Realism is a visual art style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see Art refers to a diverse range of Human activities creations and expressions that are appealing to the Senses or Emotions of a human individual The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The City of New York The movement is most associated with a group known as The Eight, whose members included five painters associated with the Ashcan school: William Glackens (1870-1938), Robert Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), Everett Shinn (1876-1953) and John French Sloan (1871-1951), along with Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Ernest Lawson (1873-1939) and Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924). William James Glackens ( March 13, 1870 – May 22, 1938) was a U Robert Henri ( June 25, 1865 - July 12, 1929) was an American painter notable for his teaching abilities and for leadership of the Everett Shinn (November 6 1876 Woodstown New Jersey – May 1 1953 New York City was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School, Arthur Bowen Davies ( September 26, 1863 – October 24, 1928) was an Avant-garde American artist Ernest Lawson ( March 22, 1873 &ndash December 18, 1939) was a Canadian-American painter and a member of The Eight, a Maurice Brazil Prendergast ( October 10, 1858 – February 1, 1924) was a U

Origin with The Eight

The Eight was a group of artists, many of whom had experience as newspaper illustrators in Philadelphia, who exhibited as a group only once, at the Macbeth Gallery in New York in 1908. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə The show, which created a sensation, subsequently toured the US under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded in 1805 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor The Eight are remembered as a group, despite the fact that their work was very diverse in terms of style and subject matter—only five of the artists (Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Shinn, and Luks) painted the gritty urban scenes that characterized the Ashcan School.

As noted, the Ashcan School was not an organized group. The first known use of the "ash can" terminology in describing the movement was by Art Young, in 1916,^[1] but the term was applied later to a group of artists, including Henri, Glackens, Edward Hopper (a student of Henri), Shinn, Sloan, Luks, George Bellows (another student of Henri), Mabel Dwight, and others such as photographer Jacob Riis, who portrayed urban subject matter, also primarily of New York's working class neighborhoods. Art Young ( January 14, 1866 – December 29, 1943) was an American Cartoonist and writer Edward Hopper ( July 22, 1882 &ndash May 15, 1967) was an American painter and Printmaker. George Wesley Bellows ( August 12 or August 19, 1882 - January 8, 1925) was an American painter, known for his Jacob August Riis (May 3 1849 - May 26 1914 a Danish -American Muckraker Journalist, Photographer, and social reformer was born in (Hopper's inclusion in the group [which he forswore] is ironic: his depictions of city streets are almost entirely free of the usual minutiae, with not a single incidental ashcan in sight. )^[2]

The artists of the Ashcan School rebelled against the genteel American Impressionism that represented the vanguard of American art at the time. Impressionism, a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors was practiced widely among American artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Their works, generally dark in tone, captured the spontaneous moments of life and often depicted such subjects as prostitutes, drunks, butchered pigs, overflowing tenements with laundry hanging on lines, boxing matches, and wrestlers. Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions Boxing (sometimes also known as English boxing or pugilism) is a Combat sport in which two participants generally of similar weight, Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two people in which each wrestler strives to get an advantage over or control of the opponent It was their frequent, although not total, focus upon poverty and the daily realities of urban life that prompted American critics to consider them the fringe of modern art. Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life including food clothing shelter and safe Drinking water, and History of Modern art Roots in the 19th century Although modern Sculpture and Architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the nineteenth

See also

American realism

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References

• Loughery, John (1997). John Sloan: Painter and Rebel. New York: Holt. ISBN 0-8050-5221-6