Art & Dance, Part 4 of 4: The American Scene

[Virtual tour] Entertainment has long been a big part of American culture, one expressive of the forever changing modern ways of life. While William Merritt Chase and John Singer Sargent are in close connection with the European traditions, artists associated with the Ashcan School searched out specific establishments in the city to comment on middle- and lower-class life. For the artists of the Harlem Renaissance, dance and music were especially central themes, since their neighborhood was the birthplace of Jazz and Blues, and their rhythms informed most of their works, intimate or public. Working with materials related to that modern life, sculptors like Elie Nadleman, Alexander Calder and Man Ray created a radically new artistic language, rather than depicting the dances they saw, moving forward. (Artists included in this program led by art historian Sylvia Laudien-Meo: John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase,Frederick MacMonnies, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri,Ashcan School artists, Elie Nadleman, Gaston Lachaise, Alexander Calder, Harlem Renaissance artists, Romare Bearden, Man Ray, Isamu Noguchi, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and others)

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