Armory show

Examples of Armory show in the following topics:

• The Armory Show

  • 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 "New" New York Armory Show was held in piers on the Hudson River in 1994  and has since evolved into an annual contemporary  art fair.
  • Discuss the influence of the Armory Show in introducing the artistic styles of impressionism, fauvism, and cubism to the American public.

• American Regionalist Art

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • This 1944 artwork "Cut the Line" shows the launch of a Tank Landing Ship (LST).

• The Market

  • The curator is generally the manager of the gallery and the person who programs the space and organizes art shows.
  • Art fairs act as conventions or large-scale shows where galleries display the work of select artists whom they represent and are important to the structure of the contemporary art market.
  • Prominent art fairs include Art Basel, Scope, Frieze Art Fair, NADA, and the Armory Show.

• Painting

  • Regionalism, also known as American Scene Painting, developed in reaction to the Armory Show and abstract modernism, and instead depicted American small towns and rural landscapes that conveyed a sense of nationalism and romanticism of everyday American life.

• Nineveh

  • These were fitted with fifteen monumental gateways which served as checkpoints on entering and exiting the ancient city, and were probably also used as barracks and armories.
  • While there is no large body of evidence to show that Assyrian monarchs built at all extensively in Nineveh during the 2nd millennium BCE, it appears to have been originally an "Assyrian provincial town".

• The Assyrian Culture

  • These were fitted with fifteen monumental gateways which served as checkpoints on entering and exiting the ancient city, and were probably also used as barracks and armories.

• New York

  • The Ninth Street Art Exhibition, otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show, which was held from May 21-June 10, 1951, was an historical, ground-breaking exhibition in that it placed New York on the map as the cultural center of new artistic expression.
  • The Ninth Street Art exhibition was not only a showing of a remarkable amount of work from leading abstract expressionists and notable New York artists, it was also the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde.
  • The show was located at 60 East 9th Street in the first floor and the basement of a building which was about to be demolished.
  • The opening of the show was a great success.
  • In spite of the public interest exhibited toward the Ninth Street Show, there were few galleries willing to accept the works of the New York School artists who were unknown to traditional art criticism.

• Carolingian Painting in the Early European Middle Ages

  • Paintings show an attempt to conform to Charlemagne's desire to revive the Roman Empire under a Christian banner.
  • The next three rows show scenes from the youth, life, and Passion of Christ.
  • The frescoes are mostly distributed in three niches in the altar wall, showing Jesus Christ in the center, flanked by pope Gregory the Great and Saint Stephen.
  • On the walls separating the niches are donor portraits below a troop of twelve angels, and scenes showing Gregory writing his Dialogi and disputing with Paulus Diaconus (Paul the Deacon), alongside scenes showing Paul of Tarsus and a fragment of a scene from the life of Saint Benedict.
  • The most famous mosaic in Charlemagne's chapel showed an enthroned Christ, worshiped by the Evangelist's symbols and the 24 elders of the Apocalypse.

• Making the Art

  • Art shows or exhibitions represent the culmination of a body of work for an artist, and are organized by curators.
  • Art shows typically begin with an "opening night" or "vernissage" (private viewing), whereby the public is invited to celebrate the show with the artist.
  • The "artist statement" is a piece of writing that explains the motivation behind the artist's work, and stands as an essential part of the art show.
  • At an art show, artworks are generally for sale, with a price list available from the gallerist.

• Sculpture of the New Kingdom

  • While some statues show her in typically feminine attire, others depict her in the royal ceremonial attire.
  • However, many of the official statues commissioned by Hatshepsut show her less symbolically, and more naturally, as a woman in typical dresses of the nobility of her day.
  • For example, many depictions of Akhenaten's body show him with wide hips, a drooping stomach, thick lips, and thin arms and legs.
  • This is a divergence from the earlier Egyptian art which shows men with perfectly chiseled bodies, and there is generally a more "feminine" quality in male figures.
  • The illustration of figures' hands and feet showed great detail, with fingers and toes depicted as long and slender.