Ashcan+School

= media type="custom" key="5425647"Ashcan School = 1891-1918

Characteristics of Aschan Shool:

 * Realism- Shows how things really are not how they should be
 * Gritty urban scenes that find beauty in drab and ugly aspects of life
 * Shows the need for social reform
 * Captures spontaneous moments of everyday life

Usually paintings of.......

 * Crowds
 * Slums
 * Clogged streets
 * Ragged childern
 * Sports events
 * Clowns
 * Sunny afternoons

The Eight
Robert Henri George Luks John Sloan Everett Shin George Bellows Arthur B. Davis Ernest Lawson Maurice Prendergast