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The 100Th Anniversary Of The 1913 Armory Show

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1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art
(The Armory Show) Poster
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show) by the Association of American Artists as well as Sculptors in New York.
Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of arguably the most famous fine art exhibition of the 20th century
This was the commencement large exhibition of Modern Art inwards North America - as well as much of it was past times European artists who'd non previously been seen past times fine art collectors inwards the USA.
Four G guests visited the rooms on the opening night.
It's of import to realise that upwardly until this show, Americans who had non travelled were typically entirely familiar amongst Realism - artwork which attempted to stand upwardly for what was existent inwards an objective reality.  In improver the powerful National Academy of Design was attempting to ignore it.

So what nosotros get got inwards New York inwards 1913, inwards effect, is a replay of the province of affairs nearly xl years before inwards Paris inwards 1874.  The French Salon, similar the National Academy, was the arbiter of national sense of savour as well as was having no truck amongst the immature upstarts who were icon inwards a novel way.  Thus  the comport upon of the exhibition inwards New York is really much similar to the comport upon of the First Impressionist Exhibition held inwards Paris betwixt 15 April- xv May 1874.

Which is why it's worth remembering!

After The Armory Show of 1913, artists working inwards the USA were influenced past times the modern artwork past times major European artists which was exhibited inwards this present - for the residuum of the 20th century.

[Note" This started off every bit the characteristic for "Who's made a grade this week?" - only I got also interested inwards it as well as it began to accept over the post - as well as thence WMAMTW volition straightaway issue tomorrow]

Why's it called The Armory Show?

The Armory Show was held inwards 2 rooms at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan in New York City from Feb 17th to March 15th 1913.

While normally a edifice associated amongst arms, the edifice is straightaway a National Historic Landmark BECAUSE of its association amongst international fine art!
It is also nationally meaning every bit the site of the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, the commencement major exhibition of contemporary fine art inwards America, that revolutionized the nation's artistic tastes as well as perceptions. Some 1,300 industrial plant of fine art were displayed, as well as hither for the commencement fourth dimension many Americans saw the industrial plant of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse as well as Picasso.
Who organised the Show?

The present was organised by artists allied to the Association of American Painters as well as Sculptors (AAPS) - which had (surprise surprise!) an all manlike someone membership!  [Interestingly this organisation does non merit an entry inwards Wikipedia]. This is the Smithsonian's listing of Who’s Who at the 1913 Armory Show
  • Seccretary as well as American Painter Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) - he was charged amongst recording as well as maintaining many of the official primary source records pertaining to the Armory Show.
  • painter-critic Walter Pach (1883-1958) - having developed friendships amongst artists such every bit Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, as well as Constantin Brancusi, he was pivotal inwards involving modern European artists.  He also wrote well-nigh Modern Art for the American public.
  • progressive painter Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928) was the organising mastermind.  He had already developed an in-depth knowledge of emerging trends inwards European as well as American fine art inwards the early on 1910s
  • Elmer McRae was the treasurer for the show
[the Association of American Painters as well as Sculptors likely merit a post inwards their ain right].

Which artists exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show? 

1300 industrial plant past times 300 artists were exhibited inwards the 1913 Armory Show

View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph (late 1880s)
Paul Cézanne
Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm)
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1913
Metropolitan Museum of Art
European Past Masters who exhibited at the present - as well as told the floor of the journeying to Modern Art - included:
View of the Armory Show amongst the Brancusi Sculpture inwards foreground left
Portrait of Mlle Pogany, 1912
exhibited at The Armory Show 1913
by Constantin Brancusi
White marble; limestone block, (44.4 x 21 x 31.4 cm)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Living European Artists who exhibited included those who were breaking amongst traditions as well as most associated amongst Modern Art.  They included:
  • Pierre Bonnard (French painter/printmaker 1867-1947) Known for his intense role of colour. Founder fellow member of Les Nabis 
  • Constantin Brâncuşi (Romanian 1876-1957) One of his sculptures (see above) inwards an abstracted style amongst build clean lines was chosen for 1 of the postcards advertising the show 
  • Georges Braque (French painter as well as sculptor 1882-1963; developed Cubism amongst Picasso)
  • Edgar Degas (French painter, printmaker as well as sculptor 1834-1917)
  • Maurice Denis (French painter and fellow member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements1870 – Nov 1943) 
  • André Derain, 
  • Marcel Duchamp (French artist, 1887-1968)  Associated amongst Dadism as well as Suurrealism,  Gis icon of a someone descending the stairs represented motion through superimposing successive images inwards the same means every bit occurs inwards film
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
(French: Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) 1912
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

sold to Frederick C. Torrey for $324.00 according to Walter Pach's sales records
This icon created a sensation when it was exhibited inwards New York inwards Feb 1913 at the historic Armory Show of contemporary art, where perplexed Americans saw it every bit representing all the tricks they felt European artists were playing at their expense. The picture's outrageousness sure enough put inwards its seemingly mechanical portrayal of a champaign of written report at in 1 trial as well as thence sensual as well as time-honored.Ann Temkin, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 307
Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) sparked a tempest of argument at the International Exhibition of Modern Art held at the National Guard 69th Regiment Armory inwards New York inwards 1913. The icon was perceived past times the bulk of fine art critics to go utterly unintelligible, as well as it presently became the butt of jokes, jingles, as well as caricatures. The American Art Newsoffered a 10 dollar vantage to the commencement reader who could "find the lady"1 inside the jumble of interlocking planes as well as jagged lines, as well as paper cartoonists had a champaign solar daytime amongst the painting, lampooning it amongst such titles every bit "The Rude Descending the Staircase (Rush Hour at the Subway)" as well as the memorable "Explosion inwards a Shingle Factory."Twentieth Century Painting as well as Sculpture inwards the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2000), p. 27
Henri Matisse
Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm. 
In the collection of the MOMA
Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (La Bonne-Mère), Marseilles 1905
Paul Signac
oil on canvas, (88.9 x 116.2 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Artwork was also exhibited past times Past Masters from the USA - including paintings past times the American Impressionists
Living American artists who exhibited included:

Wikipedia's entry for The Arnory Show provides listings of other artists who took business office in The Artists and More artists

What's happening for the Centennial?

Not much.
The 2013 exhibition revisits the Armory Show from an art-historical indicate of view, shedding novel lite on the artists represented as well as how New Yorkers responded. It volition also house this now-legendary trial inside the context of its historical 2nd inwards the USA as well as the milieu of New York City inwards ca. 1911–1913. To that end, music, literature as well as early on cinema volition go considered, every bit good every bit the political as well as economical climate.
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