Armory Show

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Armory Show on the precious day, drew a record 18,000 visitors to the Art Institute the “Cubist Room,” filled to capacity (Martinez 48).

Conflicts of not understanding the meaning of art appropriated hundred years ago the atmosphere in Chicago were extremely tense multiple critics from the people who had a visit the Armory Show referred as “the circus” and many others discussed as “nasty, lewd, immoral and indecent (Brown, It' a Rube Town). According to Martinez Chicago was not the first time received art works of Impressionist, the first time was twenty years before the Armory Show (Martinez 32) but why people from Chicago did not responded seriously well to all this works of art apparently some responded with anger, jokes, denunciations, and totally discomfort and critics such as Matisse’s work French concluded “If this work were submitted to me without explanation, I should regard it as a joke. It is asserted that he is an accomplished painter. I have never seen anything ...

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newspaper “A sort of May frolic dance followed the ceremonies, and the a cubist song was sung under the direction of the league band” (Brown, The Story of the Armory Show 210).A numbers of protest against the Armory show at the time, now people are more open mind to a new type of art.

In contrast to others artist who seems having great reviews about all his work and DePaul is presenting at the gallery, is John Sloan (August 2, 1871- September 7, 1951) was born in the small lumber town of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, he had a “home library” from the age of five. Every Saturday was spent at the public library and he had read all of Dickens and Shakespeare before he reached the age of twelve ...

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