Between about 1920 to 1930, new artistic 【M1】______

movements in European art were making themselves

felt in the United States. American artists

become acquainted with the new art on their

trips to Paris and at the exhibitions in

the famous New York gallery 291 (named with 【M2】______

its address on Fifth Avenue) of the photographer

Alfred Stieglitz. But most important in the

spread of the modern movement in the United

States was the sensational Armory Show, in

which the work of many of the leading European 【M3】______

artists were seen along with that of a

number of progressive American painters.

Several of the American modernists who

were influenced by the Armory Show found

the urban landscapes, especially New York,

an appealing subject. Comparing with the

realist painters, the American modernists

were much removed from the actual appearance

of the city. However, both the painters of the

Ash Can School and the latter realists were 【M4】______

still fled to 19th century or earlier styles,

while the early modernists shared with the 【M5】______

international breakthroughs of the art of

the 20th century.

Cubism brought about a minor revolution in 【M6】______

Western painting, which overturned the rational

tradition that was built upon since the Renaissance. 【M7】______

In Cubism, natural forms were broken down

analytical into geometric shapes. 【M8】______

No longer a clear differentiation made between 【M9】______

the figure and the background of painting:

the objects rep-resented and the surface

on which they were painted be-came one.

The Cubists abandoned the conventional

single vantage point of the viewer,

and objects depicting from multiple viewpoints were 【M10】______

shown at the same time.

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