Day 1
The 1913 Armory Show in New York City provided a most perfect opportunity to
introduce modern art.
The artists blazed dazzling new paths into the components of art space, color,
form and composition with the artwork they displayed.
Use of dashes before explanatory information
Use of commas with coordinate adjectives
Elimination of superlative form of absolute adjective
Day 1
The 1913 Armory Show in New York City provided a perfect opportunity to
introduce modern art.
Elimination of superlative form of absolute adjective
The artists blazed dazzling, new paths into the components of
art--space, color, form and composition--with the artwork they displayed.
Use of commas with coordinate adjectives
Use of dashes before explanatory information
Day 2
Charles Demurth and Georgia O'Keeffe's use of sharply defined
geometric shapes were important to the development of abstract art.
The important movements in modern art are: fauvism, cubism, and
futurism.
Elimination of unnecessary colon after a verb
Subject and verb agreement
Use of apostrophes to indicate separate possession
Day 2
Charles Demurth's and Georgia O'Keeffe's use of sharply defined
geometric shapes was important to the development of abstract art.
Use of apostrophes to indicate separate possession
Subject and verb agreement
The important movements in modern art are fauvism, cubism, and
futurism.
Elimination of unnecessary colon after a verb
Day 3
By the thirties abstract expressionism was widely excepted.
Today, well known collections in the Museum of Modern Art and the
Whitney museum.
Correction of sentence fragment
Use of hyphen with compound adjective
Capitalization of proper noun
Correction of commonly confused words
Day 3
By the thirties abstract expressionism was widely accepted.
Correction of commonly confused words
Today, well-known collections are displayed in the Museum of Modern Art
and the Whitney Museum.
Use of hyphen with compound adjective
Correction of sentence fragment
Capitalization of proper noun
Day 4
Wow. You should see the wild paintings of Jackson Pollock.
They did not cost alot when Pollock first sold them; however, they are
so expensive today that our local museum couldn’t scarcely afford to
buy one.
Streamlining sentence with use of possessive
Correction of commonly misused word
Elimination of double negative
Use of exclamation point after interjection
Day 4
Wow! You should see Jackson Pollock’s wild paintings.
Use of exclamation point after interjection
Streamlining sentence with use of possessive
They did not cost a lot when Pollock first sold them; however, they are
so expensive today that our local museum could scarcely afford to buy
one.
Correction of commonly misused word
Elimination of double negative
Day 5
Andy Warhol was famous for his carefully-painted pictures of campbell’s
soup cans.
Warhol helped redefine art. He was a leader of the Pop Art movement of the
1960’s.
Use of appositive to combine sentences
Capitalization of brand names
Elimination of hyphen with compound modifier
Day 5
Andy Warhol was famous for his carefully painted pictures of Campbell’s
soup cans.
Elimination of hyphen with compound modifier
Capitalization of brand names
Warhol, a leader of the Pop Art movement of the 1960’s, helped redefine art.
Use of appositive to combine sentences