New York School

(noun)

The New York School (synonymous 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.

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  • 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 Ninth Street Art exhibition was not only a showing of a remarkable amount of work from leading abstract expressionists and notable New York artists, it was also the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde.
    • In spite of the public interest exhibited toward the Ninth Street Show, there were few galleries willing to accept the works of the New York School artists who were unknown to traditional art criticism.
    • Still was one of the leading figures of the New York School of abstract expressionism.

  • The New York School

    • The New York School was an informal group of American abstract painters and other artists active in the 1950s and 1960s.
    • The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
    • Many artists from all across the U.S. arrived in New York City to seek recognition, and by the end of the decade the list of artists associated with the New York School had greatly increased.
    • It was a historical, ground-breaking exhibition, gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
    • Explain what the New York School is known for and who its proponents were

  • 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. "
    • The Ashcan School, also known as "The Eight," was central to the new American Modernism in the visual arts.
    • The Ashcan School was a group of New York City artists who sought to capture the feel of turn-of-the-century New York through realistic portraits of everyday life.

  • Jackson Pollock and Action Painting

    • Action painting is inextricably linked to Abstract Expressionism, a school of painting popular in post–World War II America that was characterized by the view that art is non-representational and chiefly improvisational.
    • The term action painting was coined by the American art critic Harold Rosenberg in 1952 in his essay "The American Action Painters", signalling a major shift in the aesthetic perspective of New York School painters and critics.
    • Born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912, Jackson Pollock moved to New York City in 1930, where he studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York.
    • By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions—the term "all-over painting" has been used to describe some of his work, as well as the work of other artists from that time.
    • During this period Pollock had moved to a more commercial gallery and there was great demand from collectors for new paintings.

  • Germany and the United States

    • In the "Munich School," Karl von Piloty was a leading academic painter of history subjects in the latter part of the century who taught in Munich.
    • Many early twentieth-century American painters were interested in creating new and more urbane works that reflected city life and a population that was more urban than rural in America as it entered the new century.
    • The Ashcan School was one of the founding movements that created the core of the new American Modernism in the visual arts.
    • Ashcan School was a group of New York City artists who sought to capture the feel of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City, through realistic portraits of everyday life .
    • Robert Henri (a member of the Aschan School), Snow in New York 1902, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

  • The Armory Show

    • The exhibition ran in New York City's 69th Regiment Armory from February 17 until March 15, 1913 and displayed about 1,300 paintings, sculptures and decorative works by over 300 artists.
    • The initial premise of the show was to exhibit the best avant-garde European art alongside the best works of American artists to audiences in New York City, Chicago and Boston.
    • Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism were among the European avant-garde schools represented.
    • Griswold, a writer for the New York Evening Sun, entitled it "The rude descending a staircase (Rush hour in the subway). " Despite these negative reactions, the purchase of Paul Cézanne's Hill of the Poor (View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph) by the Metropolitan Museum of Art signaled an integration of Modernism into the established New York museums.
    • The "New" New York Armory Show was held in piers on the Hudson River in 1994  and has since evolved into an annual contemporary  art fair.

  • Painting and Sculpture

    • The Ashcan school was a group of New York City artists who led the movement in realism, seeking to capture the turn of the 20th century New York City through realistic portraits of everyday life.
    • Leading figures of the Ashcan school included Robert Henri, George Bellows, Everett Shinn, George Benjamin Luks, William Glackens, and John Sloan .
    • The Ashcan school artists soon gave way to modernists arriving from Europe, such as the cubists and abstract painters promoted by Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 Gallery in New York City.
    • Centered in New York City, a new generation of educated and politically astute African-American women, men, and gender non-conforming folks emerged who used art, literature, music, and exhibitions to combat racism and oppression.
    • When the Great Depression hit in 1929 and 1930, the economic and political landscape of the country ushered in a new era of art that would later become known as New Deal Art.

  • Japanese Art after World War II

    • Welcoming the new post-World War II period of Japanese history, the government-sponsored Japan Art Academy (Nihon Geijutsuin) was formed in 1947.
    • Styles of the New York-Paris art world were fervently embraced.
    • Some artists within this style still painted on silk or paper with traditional colors and ink, while others used new materials, such as acrylics.
    • At times, all of these schools (along with older ones, such as the Kano school ink traditions) were drawn on by contemporary artists in the Japanese style and in the modern idiom.
    • Japanese painter Ushio Shinohara paint boxing at SUNY New Paltz, 2012.

  • The Development of Abstract Expressionism

    • Abstract expressionism is derived from the combination of the emotional intensity and self-denial of the German Expressionists with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, the Bauhaus, and Synthetic Cubism.
    • In practice, the term is applied to any number of artists who worked (mostly) in New York during the 1940s.
    • Although Abstract expressionism spread quickly throughout the United States, the major centers of this style were New York and California.
    • New York replaced Paris as the new center of the art world.
    • The 1940s in New York City heralded the triumph of American abstract expressionism, the modernist movement that combined lessons learned from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Surrealism, Joan Miró, Cubism, Fauvism, and early Modernism via great teachers in America like Hans Hofmann from Germany and John D.

  • European Postwar Expressionism

    • In the Postwar period, the center of modern artistic activity in the west shifted from Paris to New York.
    • Visionary figures like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman epitomized Abstract Expressionism in New York, but a similar concern for Expressionism was present in the work of many important European artists in the aftermath of WWII.
    • While both American and European artists were influenced by the postwar rhetoric of anxiety, alienation and disillusionment, the American school was also heavily influenced by Surrealism, and moved increasingly toward reductive abstraction and away from representing biomorphic forms as a means for pursuing the self-expression of the unconscious.
    • Art Gallery of New South Wales.