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After the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which marked the official beginning of American national identity, the new nation needed a history, and part of that history would be expressed visually. ;Americas first well-known school of painting—the Hudson River School—appeared in 1820. ;Mount Washington, by John Frederick Kensett;Controversy soon became a way of life for American artists. In fact, much of American painting and sculpture since 1900 has been a series of revolts against tradition. To hell with the artistic values, announced Robert Henri (1865-1929). He was the leader of what critics called the Ashcan school of painting, after the groups portrayals of the ordinary and sometimes squalid aspects of city life.;Soon the Ashcan school artists gave way to modernists arriving from Europe—the cubists and abstract painters.;Nature Symbolized, Arthur Dove, 1911;Thunderstorm, Arthur Dove, 1917;Realism has also been popular in the United States, despite modernist tendencies, such as the city scenes by Edward Hopper and the illustrations of Norman Rockwell.;Nighthawks (1942) Edward Hopper ;Freedom of Speech Norman Rockwell;Scout at Ships Wheel, 1913 Norman Rockwell;The problem we all live with, Norman Rockwell;In the years after World War II, a group of New York artists formed the first American movement to exert major influence internationally: abstract expressionism. The name has always been criticized as too large and paradoxical, yet the common definition implies the use of abstract art to express feelings, emotions, what is within the artist, and not what stands without.;The first generation of abstract expressionists was composed of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline.;Peculiar Velocity, Jackson Pollock;No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange), oil on canvas painting by Mark Rothko, 1949, ;Woman V Willem de Kooning 1952;Pop Art;Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appea