As the industrial revolution modernized the people’s life, the Armory Shows in 1913 also introduced modern art to the public.  Throughout the Armory show, artists presented numerous groundbreaking painting skills and new perceptions to artworks.  One century later, when the New York Historical society presents the Armory Shows again, the people in the 21^st century are still surprised by the painters’ creative ideas conveyed from their paintings.

Elmer MacRae in his artwork Battleships at New Port, employs color to represent the light reflection.  For example, the painter randomly uses yellow brush strokes to tell people that it’s dusk already. Also, by controlling the scale and clarity, the painter shows us whatever he perceives from closer to further.  The woman and the kid is relatively more clear than those factories which is on the other side of the river.

MacRae shows a new painting skill in his artwork, but Edith Dimock brings a new painting style to the public.   With his unique loose brushwork, Dimock does not draw every single detail intentionally,  but the audience can still distinguish what the artist wants to present.

 In Edith Dimock’s loose brushworks, we still can recognize every individual character, but in the Armory Shows there are some paintings in which the character outline is obscure.  Instead of constructing with perfect shapes, the painting The Man on a Balcony, still presents a man’s general outline.  From the painting, we can see that the man’s eyes are closed, and he seems to think something.  If we look carefully, we find that there is a women’s image in the painting too.  As a result, we seem to understand what that man is thinking. As a result, in order to understand the painting, the audience needs active eyes to find out all the hiding messages on the painting.