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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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