Question

How did the modern art movement in America start?
a.
with Impressionism
b.
with Expressionism
c.
with Realism
d.
with Neoclassicism

Answer 1

c. with Realism

The American modern art movement is often traced to realist tendencies—especially the Ashcan School and other early 20th-century realists—who broke with academic/neoclassical traditions to depict everyday urban life, paving the way for later modernist developments.