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WHAT DOES ASH CAN SCHOOL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ash Can School

Ashcan School

The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the early twentieth century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods. The most famous artists working in this style included Robert Henri, George Luks, William Glackens, John Sloan, and Everett Shinn, some of whom had met studying together under the renowned realist Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and others of whom met in the newspaper offices of Philadelphia where they worked as illustrators.

Definition of Ash Can School in the English dictionary

The definition of Ash Can School in the dictionary is a group of US painters including Robert Henri and later George Bellows, founded in 1907, noted for their depiction of the sordid aspects of city life.

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Translator English - Chinese

灰可学校
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Translator English - Spanish

Ash Can School
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English

Ash Can School
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Translator English - Hindi

ऐश कर सकते हैं स्कूल
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Translator English - Arabic

مدرسة الرماد هل يمكن ل
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Translator English - Russian

Зола может школа
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Translator English - Portuguese

Ash Can Escola
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Translator English - Bengali

এশ ক্যান স্কুল
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Ash Can école
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Translator English - Malay

Sekolah Ash Can
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Ash Can School
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Translator English - Japanese

アッシュカン·スクール
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Translator English - Korean

애쉬 캔 학교
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Ash Can School
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Can Trường tro
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ஆஷ் கன் பள்ளி
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Translator English - Marathi

एश कॅन स्कूल
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Translator English - Turkish

Ash Can Okulu
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Translator English - Italian

Ash Can Scuola
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Translator English - Polish

Popiół może Szkoły
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Translator English - Ukrainian

Зола може школа
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Ash Can School
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Ash Can School
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Ash Can School
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Ash Can School
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Translator English - Norwegian

Ash Can Skole
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASH CAN SCHOOL»

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History of Pennsylvania
Members of this group, who would later with Henri become the Philadelphia Five, important in the realist movement as the builders of the Ash Can school, were John Sloan (1871-1951), William James Glackens (1870-1938), George Benjamin ...
Philip S. Klein, Ari Arthur Hoogenboom, 2010
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ENCHANTMENT The Art and Life of Lilian Westcott Hale: ...
Directly contradictory to Hale's aesthetic orientation of “doing what you should do ”, conformity and tradition, The Ash Can School aimed at replacing nineteenth century conventions with values more appropriate to Henri's urbanized view of the ...
Diane Kelleher, 2013
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The United States of America
Wright's perception that art had to become responsive to modern needs was also shared by the painters who eventually became known as the Ash Can School, although, in the end, their solutions would not prove to be as radically original as  ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1987
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Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth-century France
Members of this group, who would later with Henri become the Philadelphia Five, important in the realist movement as the builders of the Ash Can school, were John Sloan (1871-1951), William James Glackens (1870-1938), George Benjamin ...
Christine Adams, Jack Richard Censer, Lisa Jane Graham, 1997
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Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920
Other useful studies of the "Ash Can" school include Milton W. Brown, "The Ash Can School," American Quarterly 1 (1949): 127-34; Peter Conn, The Divided Mind: Ideology and American Imagination, 1898-1917 (Cambridge, 1983), 259- 78; ...
‎1996
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History of Art: The Western Tradition
Philadelphia Museum of Art LOUISE AND WALTER ARENSBERG COLLECTION GEORGE BELLOWS. Although not among its founders, George Bellows (1882— 1925) became the leading representative of the Ash Can School in its heyday.
Horst Woldemar Janson, Anthony F. Janson, 2004
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America in the Age of the Titans: The Progressive Era and ...
This was the phrase that gave the name to a group of painters known as the Ash Can School. The Eight and the Ash Can School have frequently been confused, and even thought of as identical, because it was five painters from The Eight who  ...
Sean Dennis Cashman, 1988
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People, Places and Events: Journalism By Martin Green
The Ash-Can school, founded by David Henri, dealt with the scenes and issues of the times. It was art by ordinary people for ordinary people.” Oravetz, together with co-owner Masacatsu Iwahiro (Mas for short) and Patricia Kemick, who ...
Martin Green, 2011
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America in the 20th Century
Luks was one of a group of painters known as the "Ash Can School" because they realistically illustrated city slum scenes. away from formal portrait painting and sought other ways to express themselves and explore the meaning of their time.
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2003
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Gateway to the Promised Land: Ethnic Cultures on New York's ...
As to Jerome Myers, if he wasn't a real member of the Ash Can School, he shared many of its tenets and, what is more, came to be a kind of Lower East Side's adopted child27. To the neighborhood, he constantly turned as the first source of  ...
Mario Maffi, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASH CAN SCHOOL»

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“American Art, 1800-1945,” begins with portraiture from the early Republic, continues with Hudson River School painting and Ash Can School ... «Duke Today, May 15»
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James Wilson Morrice, Montreal's troubled bohemian
American artist Robert Henri introduced Morrice to fellow members of The Eight, or Ash Can School, and Morrice once bought a painting from ... «Montreal Gazette, Apr 15»
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MUSIC MATTERS: SRIM Fest is here
FoWlMoUtH and Ash Can School are openers. More on the show next week. That's it for this week. Send me your new songs, gig calendars or ... «Kenosha News, Mar 15»
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MUSIC MATTERS: This weekend, it's quality not quantity
I was at The Port catching Ash Can School (power pop) and FoWlMoUtH (Indie Rock) and Jeff Moody and the FoWlMoUtH gang kicked into a ... «Kenosha News, Jan 15»
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P.3+: 'Five in Four' exhibition showcases an archive of family …
... of the “Ash Can School and Glennon Argenbright (1888-1958), a reluctant farmer in Northwestern Illinois who dreamed of being an engineer; ... «NolaVie, Dec 14»
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Proto SoHo: Artist Developers in New York City
The artist studios were marketed to artists from the Barbizon and Ash Can School, many of them successful artists who had money. According ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
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Carols, Crafts, Cheer: Holiday Community Activities
Once home to abolitionists, theatrical luminaries, painters of the Ash Can School and vibrant French and Greek communities, the area boasts ... «Chelsea Now, Dec 14»
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Leslie Fliegel Lost and Found: His Work through the Lens of Time
His work would be best characterized as second-generation Ash Can school. Barbara Weinberg, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in ... «Maine Antique Digest, Oct 14»
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Around New England: Making It in America at RISD
The work by RISD's famous artists is exemplary, such as two superb Martin Johnston Heade landscapes, one of Ash Can School painter ... «Boston.com, Oct 13»
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Urban Views
In contrast to the Impressionist style of the day, the Ash Can School of painters–a group of eight artists so named by a critic's derogatory ... «Metropolis Magazine, Jul 13»

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