Examples of American Realism in the following topics:
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- The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism known for portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
- The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism that came into prominence in New York City during the early 20th century and is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
- American Realism was a concept that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in art, music, and literature.
- American Realism attempted to portray the exhaustion and cultural exuberance of the American landscape and the life of ordinary people at home.
- Pulling away from fantasy and focusing on the grit and reality of daily life, American Realism presented a breakthrough—introducing Modernism, and what it means to be in the present.
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- American Realism attempted to portray the true reality, glamour, and grit of early 20th century America.
- Through all mediums of artistic expression (including painting, literature, and music), American Realism attempted to portray the exhaustion and cultural exuberance of the American landscape and the life of ordinary Americans at home.
- Pulling away from fantasy and focusing on the now, American Realism presented a new gateway and a breakthrough—introducing modernism, and what it means to be in the present.
- Edward Hopper developed an individual style of realism by concentrating on light and form, and avoiding overt social content .
- Discuss the early 20th century art movements, including American Realism, the Harlem Renaissance, Modern Classicist sculpture, and the landscape images of the Southwest.
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- For example, in Germany and the United States, Realism adopted many different forms.
- American realism was an early twentieth-century idea in art, music, and literature that depicted a contemporary view of what was happening: an attempt at defining what was real.
- While some scholars have argued that American Realism was a Neoclassical movement borrowing from ancient classical interpretations of art and architecture, American Realists were less reflective on the antiquities than they were attempting to record the grit and urban life of the early twentieth century in America.
- Through art, American Realism attempted to portray the exhaustion and cultural exuberance of the figurative American landscape and the life of ordinary Americans at home.
- Differentiate Realism in Biedermeier German art from Realism in early 20th century American art
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- The Armory Show of 1913 displayed the work of European avant-garde artists alongside their American counterparts.
- The Armory Show was the first exhibition organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors.
- The Armory Show introduced New Yorkers accustomed to the naturalistic art of American Realism to the styles of the European avant-gardes.
- The show also served as a catalyst for American artists, who subsequently began to experiment more and became more independent in creating their own artistic language.
- Discuss the influence of the Armory Show in introducing the artistic styles of impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to the American public.
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- American painting in the 1930s and 40s is marked by developments in Regionalism, Social Realism, and Modernist techniques like Precisionism.
- The dominant styles of the time include Regionalism, Social Realism, Precisionism, and Abstract Modernism.
- Many artists who subscribed to Social Realism were painters with socialist (but not necessarily Marxist) political views.
- American Social Realism includes the works of such artists as those from the Ashcan School, including Edward Hopper, Ben Shahn, Rafael Soyer, Isaac Soyer, Reginald Marsh, Jack Levine and others.
- Compare and contrast the painting styles of Regionalism, Social Realism, Precisionism, and Abstract Modernism.
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- Regionalism refers to a naturalist and realist style of painting that dominated American rural painting in the 1930s.
- After World War I, many American artists rejected the modern trends emanating from the Armory Show and European influences, choosing instead to adopt an academic realism to depict American rural scenes.
- Partly due to the Great Depression, Regionalism became one of the dominant art movements in America in the 1930s (the other being Social Realism).
- A debate between abstraction versus realism had been ongoing since the 1913 Armory Show, and this continued throughout the 1930s between Regionalism, Social Realism, and Abstract art.
- During the 1930s, these artists documented and depicted American small towns and rural landscapes, as well as cities; the works which stress local and small-town themes are often called "American Regionalism", and those depicting urban scenes, with political and social consciousness, are called "Social Realism".
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- Photorealism or super-realism is a genre of art that that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, encompassing painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
- Photorealism, also known as super-realism or hyper-realism, is a genre of art that makes use of photography in order to create a highly realistic art work in another medium.
- The first generation of American photorealists comprising the art historical movement included such painters as Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Charles Bell, Audrey Flack, Don Eddy, Robert Bechte, and Tom Blackwell.
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- The period from 1930-1945 in American history is marked by the Great Depression and outbreak of the second World War.
- Social realism, also known as socio-realism, became an important art movement during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
- The Farm Security Administration, part of the New Deal, was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.
- Under Roy Stryker, the Information Division of the FSA adopted a goal of "introducing America to Americans."
- Alongside social realism, another approach to photography referred to as "straight photography" was also gaining momentum.