New Culture Movement

(noun)

A movement during the 1910s and 1920s in China that sprang from the disillusionment with traditional Chinese culture following the failure of the Chinese Republic.

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Examples of New Culture Movement in the following topics:

  • Modern Chinese Painting

    • Beginning with the New Culture Movement of the mid-1910s and 1920s, Chinese artists started to adopt Western techniques.
    • The Cultural Revolution was a sociopolitical movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976.
    • One of the stated goals of the Cultural Revolution was to bring an end to the Four Olds—Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas.
    • Shaoqiang Chen created a new style of Chinese painting in the 21st century known as Heaven Style painting.
    • Describe the adoption of Western techniques in the New Culture Movement, the subsequent revival of traditional Chinese painting, and the closing of art schools during the Cultural Revolution

  • The Early 20th Century

    • The early 20th century was marked by rapid industrial, economic, social and cultural change, which influenced the worldview of many and set the stage for new artistic movements.
    • The first two decades of the 20th century were marked by enormous industrial, economic, social and cultural change.
    • The economic and social changes of the early 20th century greatly influenced the North American and European worldview which, in turn, shaped the development of new styles of art.
    • The rapid rise of technology impacted artists both directly and indirectly, from the invention of new artistic materials to subject matter and themes.
    • Identify how industrial, economic, social, and cultural change set the stage for the art movements of the early 20th century.

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    • The Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s) was an African-American cultural movement known for its proliferation in art, music, and literature.
    • The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement in the United States that spanned the 1920s and 1930s.
    • While the zenith of the movement occurred between 1924 and 1929, its ideas have lived on much longer.
    • At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
    • It encompassed a wide variety of styles, including Pan-African perspectives; "high-culture" and "low-culture"; traditional music to blues and jazz; traditional and experimental forms in literature such as modernism; and the new form of jazz poetry.

  • Dada and Surrealism

    • Dada and Surrealism were multidisciplinary cultural movements of the European avant-garde that emerged in Zurich and Paris respectively during the time of WWI.
    • Dada was a multi-disciplinary art movement that rejected the prevailing artistic standards by producing "anti-art" cultural works.
    • Like Zurich, New York City was a refuge for writers and artists from World War I.
    • Frenchmen Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia met American artist Man Ray in New York City in 1915.
    • Surrealism was a cultural movement beginning in the 1920s that sprang directly out of Dadism and overlapped in many senses.

  • American Painting: The Ashcan School

    • The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism known for portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
    • The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism that came into prominence in New York City during the early 20th century and is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
    • Whether it was a portrayal of contemporary culture, or a scenic view of downtown New York City, Realist works depicted a contemporary view of what was happening or what was "real. "
    • These artists were not only depicting Fifth Avenue socialites, but also the lower class and richly textured immigrant cultures.
    • The first known use of the "ashcan" terminology in describing the movement was by Art Young in 1916.

  • Artistic Conventions in Painting

    • Neoclassicism was a movement in the arts that drew inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.
    • Neoclassicism is the term for movements in the arts that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.
    • Neoclassical painting gained new momentum with the great success of Jaques-Louis David's "Oath of the Haratii" at the Paris Salon of 1785 .
    • The painting created an uproar, and David was proclaimed to have perfectly defined the Neoclassical taste in his painting style, He thereby became the quintessential painter of the movement.
    • Neoclassical painting gained new momentum with the great success of Jaques-Louis David's "Oath of the Haratii" at the Paris Salon of 1785.

  • Painting

    • Another characteristic of postmodern art is its conflation of high and low culture through the use of industrial materials and pop culture imagery.
    • Clement Greenberg became the voice of Post-painterly abstraction by curating an influential exhibition of new painting that toured important art museums throughout the United States in 1964.
    • Color field painting, Hard-edge painting and Lyrical Abstraction emerged as radical new directions.
    • It's also seen as a continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New Image Painting and precedents in Pop painting.
    • Minimalism emerged as an abstract movement in art by the early 1960s, and is thought to be a precursor to the postmodern movement.

  • New York

    • The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York.
    • The New York School (which is most often associated with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
    • The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular: action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the New York art world's vanguard circle.
    • The Ninth Street Art Exhibition, otherwise known as the Ninth Street Show, which was held from May 21-June 10, 1951, was an historical, ground-breaking exhibition in that it placed New York on the map as the cultural center of new artistic expression.
    • Still was one of the leading figures of the New York School of abstract expressionism.

  • Postmodernist Sculpture

    • The characteristics which lend any type of art to being postmodern, such as collage, pastiche, appropriation, and the destruction of barriers between fine art and popular culture, can also be applied to sculptural works.
    • Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States that many e.
    • Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States.
    • Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising and news.
    • Koons gained recognition in the 1980s and subsequently set up a factory-like studio in a SoHo loft on the corner of Houston Street and Broadway in New York.

  • Pop Art

    • The Pop Art Movement began in the 1960s and questioned the boundaries between "high" and "low" art.
    • Pop Art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books, and mundane, cultural objects.
    • Museum of Modern Art, New York.
    • Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans have become synonymous with the Pop Art movement and exemplify his preoccupation with notions of pop culture and capitalism.
    • Museum of Modern Art, New York.