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How did the American public react to the 1913 Armory Show in New York? Was it a complete failure or did it change American Art forever?

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The Impact of the Armory Show Please respond to the following discussion topics and submit them to thediscussion forum as a single post. Your initial post should be 75-150 words in length. Then, make at least two thoughtful responses to your fellow students’ posts. If youhaven’t recently, please review the Rules of Discussion. How did the American public react to the 1913 Armory Show in New York? Was it a complete failure or did it change American Art forever? Justify your response with at least one example. Additional Resources • Introduction to the Ashcan School: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art1010/art-between-wars/american-artwwii/ a/the-ashcanschool-an-introduction • The Armory Show: http://www.art21.org/texts/the-culturewars-redux/essay-the-1913-armory-showamericas-first-artwar Introduction to Early American Modernism The technological progress that was responsible for the industrial advances of the late nineteenth century continued to address the communication and transportation challenges posed by the vast distances across the United States. The web of telegraph and telephone wires spanning across the land were then complemented by wireless radio, a technology that eventually spanned across the oceans. Innovations in transportation, such as the automobile and the airplane, also aided in substantially decreasing the time needed for traversing these great distances. These were some of the effects that led to a vision of the present as already inhabiting the future, a vision that describes the modern. The early American modernists were reacting against the Gilded Age of the 19th century which has been distinguished by sophistication, wealth and ambition. Enter Robert Henri and the Eight, as well as the Ashcan artists who pioneered a new type of realist American Art. They mainly focused on depicting scenes from daily city life. These ordinary, commonplace scenes featured situations that represented distinctly American relationships, often revealing social tensions structured along racial, class, or gender divisions. At the same time, there was a great deal of experimentation with abstraction, much of it influenced by European movements such as Cubism, Dadaism, and Expressionism. Photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz went from producing moody images to making photographs that were meticulously realistic. In his The Steerage, 1907, Stieglitz has created an image that is crowded with shapes and people, but it also makes a statement on class boundaries and the bigotry of the times. Although the power of images produced to address the many ills of society relied on the realistic qualities of the images, it is also obvious that the ability of these photographers to aesthetically compose their work contributed greatly to the effectiveness of the photographs. The Armory Show debuted in New York in 1913 and caused tidal waves of reaction from artists, galleries and critics. It was one of the first times many Americans were exposed to the variations of work occurring in Europe This exhibition’s impact on the American art world was major, explosive and controversial. Some artists grouped together with Alfred Stieglitz and his gallery 291 and began to incorporate European aesthetic with their own form of American art. Abstraction was a major component in a lot of these paintings, which focused less on people but on the objects in urban life. Around the end of WWI, the art of Dada took shape in New York. It was essentially a reaction to the political and technological forces that had caused so much destruction. It was anti-rational, absurd and playful. Artists such as Marcel Duchamp took found objects such as snow shovels and submitted them to galleries as art. It wasn’t a cohesive style as much as it was a world view, exquisitely modern in that it stood to confront the standards and rules of society and the art world. During this period, European art was also undergoing revolutionary changes. These advancements challenged artists in the U.S. to introduce their own responses to modernism. American artists sought new and innovative ways to infuse American identity into their work. References Doss, E. (2004). Twentieth-century American art. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press Read chapters 2 & 3 from our textbook (pp. 35-73) Additional Resources • Introduction to the Ashcan School: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art1010/art-between-wars/american-artwwii/ a/the-ashcanschool-an-introduction • The Armory Show: http://www.art21.org/texts/the-culturewars-redux/essay-the-1913-armory-showamericas-first-artwar •
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