Eight, The
A group of anti-academic painters who banded together to show their art in 1908. Although their aims and styles varied, most depicted subjects from contemporary American life, rendered in a relatively loose and painterly technique. Much of their work offended genteel taste because of its lack of finish and its unidealized subject matter. The Eight’s single exhibition stands as a landmark in the development of a modern American art that responded to new conditions of life in the twentieth century. It also foreshadowed the rise of the ... ...
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