A stuart davis biography artist

Summary of Stuart Davis

One of America's first modern artists and a forefather of Pop art, Stuart Davis began his artistic career with the Ashcan School before embracing European modernism following the Armory Show.

The artist's abstract paintings, infused with jazz rhythm and bold, colorful abstractions of New York's urban landscape or household objects, offer a taste of European Cubism with an American twist. Whether painting in the style of realism or Post-cubist abstraction, Davis's determination to convey something of American political and consumer culture was unwavering.

Accomplishments

• Davis is credited with developing an American variation of European Cubism at a time when modernism was just beginning to infiltrate the country.

  Through slang words and imagery that were distinctly American, Davis's paintings established the country's presence in the burgeoning modern art world.

• The artist was one of the first to consider jazz and swing music in conjunction with painti