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Understanding Ashcan School
So, what is actually meant by Ashcan School?
Ashcan School is a group of North American artists who use realist techniques to describe social seizures and injustice in the American urban environment in the early twentieth centuries.
Explanation of Ashcan School
Pioneered by painter Robert Henri, artists described themselves as urban realists, which are devoted to the description of realistic life in the same way as journalists and novelists write about the hard conditions of the poor. The name of the group comes from the picture by artist George Bellows who depicts three homeless people who examine the contents of the ash can.
Starting at the end of the nineteenth century and became famous around 1910, this movement lost momentum in 1913 when European modernism exploded to the American art scene and group realism, in facing cubism and fauvism, began to appear dating and not connected.
Artists associated with Ashcan schools including Robert Henri, George Bellows, William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast and Arthur B. Davies.
Moreover, as we have seen above, this term is one of a collection of dictionaries, acronyms, terms, jargon, or terminology in the field of arts that begins with an alphabet or prefix A, as well as terms associated with A.
Meaning of Ashcan School in the English, Indonesian (Including Javanese and Sundanese), and Malaysian Translation Dictionary
Apart from discussing the meaning and discussion of the definition, to deepen it further, here we also need to know what the word means in the English, Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese) translation dictionaries, as well as Malaysia (Malay).
For easy understanding, in this glossary post, we will explain it in the form of a list of translations of terms from various types of languages as follows:
- English; Terminology = Ashcan School.
- Indonesian (including Javanese and Sundanese translations); Terminology = Sekolah Ashcan (Indonesian), Sekolah Ashcan (Java), and Sakola ashcan in Sundanese.
- Malaysian; Terminology = Sekolah Ashcan.
Closing
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Footnotes
This glossary post was created by referring to the conclusions of the meaning of definitions from various authoritative relevant references such as Wikipedia, Britannica and several other sources such as MoMA, Tate, ModernArts, and so on. This word is one of a collection of terminology in the field of Art which begins with the alphabet or prefix A. This article wasupdated in Nov of 2024.
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