Known for their realistic paintings of the working life of New Yorkers, the Ashcan School is most often identified with its depictions of the grittier side of urban life.
The work of 208 highly-talented artists fill EXOTIQUE 5 with 342 pieces of spectacular character art in genres ranging from science fiction, fantasy, and anime, to photorealism and stylized realism.
On the base, the main writers made a kind of cultural snack labeling Decadent zest from the end of the century through the original New Realism literature tagging hilding and coarse - grained life.
The Blue Riders are interrupted by a room of works from a different period: paintings done in the 1920s by artists seeking a “New Objectivity” or Neue Sachlikeit.
Here, supernatural events or abilities are described in a realistic and matter-of-fact tone, while the real events of human life and history reveal themselves to be full of fantastical absurdity.