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Summary of American Art. The United States' rich artistic history stretches from the earliest indigenous cultures to the more recent globalization of contemporary art. Centuries before the first European colonizers, Native American peoples had crafted ritual and utilitarian objects that reflected the natural environment and their beliefs.
American modernism is an artistic and cultural movement in the United States beginning at the turn of the 20th century, with a core period between World War I and World War II. Like its European counterpart, American modernism stemmed from a rejection of Enlightenment thinking, seeking to better represent reality in a new, more industrialized world.
- The American landscape and the Stieglitz Circle. Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a pivotal figure in early American Modernism. A pioneering photographer and gallery owner, he was a tireless promoter of a group of artists who sought to depict the American landscape with a spiritual intensity.
- The industrial landscape and the Precisionists. Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867-1938), Approach of Night (Hoboken), 1914. Watercolour and gouache on paperboard.
- The Americans in Paris. From the late 19th century, Paris was the capital of the avant-garde, attracting artists, musicians and writers from all over the world to live there.
- American Abstraction and the Park Avenue Cubists. In the late 1930s a group of American painters that included Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, Byron Browne, Werner Drewes, Paul Kelpe, and Vaclav Vytlacil founded The American Abstract Artists (AAA).
- The Armory Show. A key event for the development of modern American art is the International Exhibition of Modern Art known as The Armory Show. This exhibition opened on February 17 1913.
- The Eight and The Ashcan School. Artists involved with the artistic group The Eight were Robert Henry, leader of the group, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Arthur B. Davies, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, George Luks, William J. Glackens, and George Bellows.
- Precisionism. Precisionism is the first authentic American modernist movement to emerge in the immediate aftermath of World War I. The process of industrialization, modernization, urbanization, and economic and technological progress was an inexhaustible inspiration to the members of this group.
- Stieglitz Circle. Alfred Stieglitz was a photographer, publisher, gallerist, and one of the first supporters of modern art in America. It was his gallery 291 that was the place where the works of Paul Cezanne (1910) and Pablo Picasso (1911) were exhibited for the first time in the USA.
Jul 21, 2022 · In a letter published in the New York Herald Tribune, one reader called it “the most important art event in America since the Armory Show”—the great 1913 exhibition that was often said to have introduced modern art to the United States—chiding the paper’s own critic for not grasping its significance. “This stage of art is merely a ...
New Experiments, 1914-1917 . In the wake of the Armory Show several other New York galleries began to exhibit modern European art. Unwilling to be one among many, Stieglitz altered 291's course and, aided by Steichen and the Mexican caricaturist Marius de Zayas, began to exhibit more experimental art, such as that of Constantin Brancusi in 1914.
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Modern art, painting, sculpture, architecture, and graphic arts characteristic of the 20th and 21st centuries and of the later part of the 19th century. Modern art embraces a wide variety of movements, theories, and attitudes whose modernism resides particularly in a tendency to reject traditional,
