ART H208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ashcan School, Robert Henri, Pictorialism
29 Aug 2016
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Impressionism fluid brush stroke, intense use of unmixed color . Tonalism- more grey more poetic less pragmatic and real. Ashcan school: progressive movement and document photography, how do we improve the life of these immigrants, how do to turn photography into fine art. Robert henri, west 57th street, new york, 1902: art for life"s sake, wanted to paint american subjects, a change in the class of people represented. 4: takes inspiration from 17th c dutch painting. Insisting in showing the sludge of the city. Celebrates them as being the future of the us. George luks, hester street, 1905: the lower east side of ny, which was populated by poor jewish immigrants, yiddish was often heard and spoken, rough brush strokes, little detail, gives a heavy impasto, crudely painted. John sloan, chinese restaurant, 1909: woman is overdressed, her gestures and attire are refined but also overdone tacky too much make up, woman is making a spectacle of herself.
