| 单词 | ashcan school |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAshcan School With capital initial. Art (originally somewhat derogatory). Designating a style of American art of the early 20th cent. in which urban scenes are depicted in a realist style; (also) designating an artist, or the group of artists, painting in this style. Frequently in Ashcan School.Despite its suggestion of prior use, quot. 1934 is considered the first appearance of the term Ashcan School. However, ashcans had previously been identified (see quot. 1916) as a recurrent motif in social realism: quot. 1930 appears to be such a reference, but may be unrelated. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > others all'antica1605 neo-Gothic1878 Barbizon1890 chinoiserie1909 neoprimitive1922 omega1922 Suprematist1922 beaux arts1924 ashcan1934 vitalistic1937 Euston Road1941 precisionist1943 abstract impressionist1950 abstract-concrete1955 neo-expressionist1957 metaphysical1958 structurist1958 auto-destructive1959 Rayonist1968 post-minimal1971 assemblagist1977 Neo-Geo1987 1916 N.Y. Sun 8 Apr. 6/1 The dissenting five artists..want to run pictures of ash cans and girls hitching up their skirts in Horatio street. 1930 Greeley (Colorado) Daily Tribune 10 Mar. 1 Somebody has offered a prize for the most artistic design for an ash can. Ash-can art has already appeared, however.] 1934 H. Cahill in H. Cahill & A. H. Barr Art in Amer. in Mod. Times iv. 31/1 In retrospect their program seems moderate enough, but when they first showed as a group in New York in 1908 they were anathematized as ‘The Ashcan School’. 1964 Chicago Rev. 17 No. 1. 114 Like so many of their worthy predecessors in the American tradition—..the Hudson River painters, or members of the Ashcan group—these men are attempting to come to grips with their personal past and the environment in which they were raised. 1992 Mod. Painters Spring 82/1 Ashcan artists believed in the importance of recording the ‘American scene’, i.e., ordinary urban or small-town life and sights. 2010 Art Q. Winter 83/1 This exhibition places Hopper's achievements in the context of the Ashcan School of the 1920s. < as lemmas |
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