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The Ashcan School was a Realist Artistic movement at the beginning of the 20th Century , known for painting scenes of daily life in poor urban neighborhoods. It is most associated with a group known as " The Eight ", whose members were:
The Eight exhibited as a group for the first and only time at the Macbeth Gallery in 1908, but they are still remembered as a group, despite the fact that their work was very diverse in terms of style and subject matter. The Ashcan School was not an organized group, but rather the term was applied later to a group of artists, including Henri, Glackens, Shinn, Sloan, Luks, George Bellows (a Henri student), and others, who painted urban subject matter, primarily New York's poorer neighborhoods. It was this frequent, though not total, focus on Poverty that prompted critics to consider them the fringe of 'modern' art. |
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