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Ash Can School
- Robert Henri
- George Bellows
- - Urban city life paintings submitted into National Academy Design were rejected.
- - Displayed in galleries and viewed as trash, ugly and unpleasant.
- -Avant-Garde of modernism.
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Armory Show (International Exhibition of Modern Art)
- -European art mixed with American Art
- -Paintings hanging side by side comparing American art to European art reinforced the general American audience's negative attitude toward "foreigners" (Europeans) as immigration was very prevalent during this time.
- -European art was mocked. Americans didn't understand their art so they didn't like it.
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Alfred Stieglitz
Promoted photography as an accepted form of fine art with the Little Gallery of Photo Secession (291 5th Ave.)
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W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration)
- -Hired out of work artist during the depression to paint murals in government sponsored buildings (Libraries, train stations, etc.) in order to keep American art alive.
- -Created a collaboration of art between artists who've never met before.
- -Artists encouraged each other while developing a sense of community for artists and shared ideas together.
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Started by Lillie Bliss.
- -Art collector who was frustrated with lack of modern art in American museums.
- -Exhibited modern art in museums, but no one liked it. No audience for it.
- -Opens her own modern art gallery
- -Appreciation of modern art grows when modern art museums open. Avant-garde painters are encouraged.
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The Irascible 18
- Group of abstract expressionists.
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Black Mountain College
- -An institution for experimental avant-garde art for a new generation of young artists.
- -A place for nontraditional, revolutionary behavior and attitude about art.
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Regionalism
- -Art movement that expressed the rural lifestyle of America.
- -Murals and paintings showed a prosperous America.
- -Was an escapism from a depressing time in America.
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Abstract Expressionism - Action Painting
- -Artwork that is spontaneously painted by splashing, smearing, or dripping onto the canvas that represents the action of painting itself.
- -Jackson Pollock
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Abstract Expressionism - Color Field Painting
- -Solid colors painted largely across the canvas
- -Mark Rothko
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Pop Art
- -A new generation of artists' response to a new age of popular culture.
- -Immediately well received because it's subjects were easily recognizable as American public liked realism. Objects they can identify with.
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