Saturday, February 11, 2012
John Sloan Ashcan Exhibit
Modernism and the new Avante-garde Tradition
In 1907 John Sloan, George Luks, and William Glackens were rejected for exhibition by New York’s conservative National Academy of Design, which slavishly upheld classical European academic painting. Robert Henri pulled his own works from the Academy exhibit in protest, and then they set about mounting an alternative exhibition of works
In order to create, there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? -- Igor Stravinsky
Beautiful vibrant night life in the city of an America ever on the move .
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