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Week 9: Postwar Modern Movements Chapter 23Miss McAlpine
AgendaToday – Modernity; Jeopardy11/8 – Exam on AH; Art theories11/15 – Warhol Museum11/22 – Warhol Presentations11/29 – NO CLASS12/6 – Review for final – finish
paintings12/13 – FINAL EXAM
What are we doing?Review previous materialObtain info on ModernismJEOPARDY review gameContinue paintings!
ANCIENT ART
Paleolithic◦ “Old” “Stone”◦ “Venus of
Willendorf”Mesolithic
◦ “Middle” “Stone” Neolithic
◦ “New” “Stone”◦ “Stonehenge”
“Code of Hammurabi”
“Pallet of Narmar”
Imhotep“The Great
Pyramids”King Tut
PREHISTORIC EGYPTIAN
GREEK & ROMAN Archaic
◦ “Kouros”
Classical◦ Contrapposto◦ “Parthenon”
Athena Parthenos
Hellenistic◦ “The Laocoon
Group”◦ This era saw the
rise of Rome
GREECE “The Collosseum” by
the Flavian family Pantheon – oculus Emperor Constantine
BYZANTINE
“Old St. Peter’s Basilica
Emperor Leo III Empress Theodra
ROME
MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCEMEDIEVAL ART
◦ Barbarians – nomads
IRELAND◦ “Book of Kells”
ROMANESQUE◦ Architecture of mid-11th
to mid-12th century
GOTHIC◦ “Notre Dame of
Chartres”◦ “Rose de France”
RENAISSANCE◦ Linear Perspective◦ Donatello’s David◦ Medici Family◦ Leonardo da Vinci
Art & science = knowledge
◦ “The Creation of Adam”
◦ “The School of Athens”◦ Jan van Eyck◦ “Feast at the House of
Levi”
18th & 19th CENTURIESNEOCLASSICISM
◦ Jacques Louis David◦ “Cornelia, Pointing to
her Children as her Treasures”
ROMANTICISM◦ Robert S. Duncanson
REALISM◦ Academic Art◦ School of Fine Arts◦ Salon
IMPRESSIONISM◦ Edourd Manet◦ Claude Monet◦ Mary Cassatt◦ “The Thinker”
POST IMPRESSIONISM◦ Seurat – Pointillism◦ Cezanne◦ Vincent van Gogh◦ Gauguin
EARLY 20th CENTURYFAUVISM
◦ “les fauves”◦ Henri Matisse
EXPRESSIONISM◦ The Bridge◦ The Blue Rider
CUBISM◦ Geometric
abstraction◦ Synthetic Cubism◦ Braque◦ Picasso
ABSTRACT SCULPTURE◦ Constantin Bruncusi◦ “Bird in Space”
FUTURISM & MOTION◦ Duchamp “Nude
Descending a Staircase”
BETWEEN WORLD WARSDADA
◦ Zurich◦ “L.H.O.O.Q” by
Duchamp
SURREALISM◦ Paris◦ Sigmund Freud◦ Earnest & Dali
DE STIJL◦ The Style◦ Mondrain
POLITICAL PROTEST◦ “Guernica”
AMERICAN REGIONALISM◦ “American Gothic”
HARLEM RENAISSANCE ◦ “The New Negro” by Locke
ORGANIC ABSTRACTION◦ “Forms in Echelon”
Week 9: Postwar Modern Movements Chapter 23Miss McAlpine
Postwar Modern MovementsIt became that whatever an artist
did, or what the museum exhibited, became art
The New York School:◦Many people fled Europe to come to
U.S.◦Artists include Mondrain, Leger,
Duchamp, Dali and Breton
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM- Culmination of expressive tendencies in painting from Fauvism, German Expressionism, and Surrealism- Jackson Pollock – leading innovator
“Autumn Rhythm” by Pollock; 1950
“Elegy to the Spanish Republic” by Robert Motherwell; 1953-54
“Woman and Bicycle” by Willem de Kooning; 1952-53
“Cubi XVII” by David Smith; 1963
“Blue, Orange, Red” by Mark Rothko; 1961
Color field Painting
EVENTS & HAPPENINGS- Cooperative events in which viewers become active participants in partly planned, partly spontaneous performances
“Decoy Gang War Victim” by Richard Hamilton; 1956
POP ART
Used real objects or mass-production techniques in their artWanted to challenge cultural assumptions about def. of art1st appeared in London, but flowered in U.S.
Pop Art CriteriaAccording to London artist, Richard Hamilton
◦ Popular (designed for mass audience)◦ Transient (short-term solution)◦ Expendable (easily forgotten)◦ Low-cast◦ Mass-produced◦ Young (aimed at youth◦ Witty◦ Sexy◦ Gimmicky◦ Glamorous◦ Big Business
“Just What is It that makes Today’s Homes So Different, So
Appealing?” by Richard Hamilton; 1956
Andy WarholMost visible and controversial
exponent of pop artMost famous for his Coca-cola
and Campbell's Soup can
“Marilyn Diptych” by Warhol; 1962
“Little Race Riot” by Warhol; 1962
“Drowning Girl” by Roy Lichtenstein; 1963
MINIMAL ARTArt that referred to nothing outside itself, told no story except for its own shapes and colorsIt was a quest to see if art could still be art without representation, storytelling, or personal feelingDonald Judd was one of the leaders
“Untitled” by Judd; 1967
“Agbatana III” by Frank Stella; 1968
CONCEPTUAL ART
After minimalism, art became only about an ideaBased on the fact that a work of art usually begins as an idea in the artists’ mindWork of art is an idea first, then its creator carries out that ideaCreativity is a mental process
“One and 3 Chairs” by Joseph Kosuth; 1965
SITE WORKS & EARTHWORKS
Site specificSculptural materials designed to interact with but not permanently alter the environment
“Tilted Arc” by Richard Serra; 1981
Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, 1981
Richard Serra, Carnegie, 1985
“Spiral Jetty” by Robert Smithson; 1970
L: Walter De Maria, Lightning Field, 1971-77R: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, 1972-76
EARLY FEMINISM
Late 60’s, many women artists began to speak out against discrimination in their careersRare for women to be taken seriously in artists groups
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79
PERFORMANCE ARTDo not create anything durable, rather perform actions before an audience or in nature
“How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare” by Joseph Beuys; 1965
CONTEMPORARY ART
Kara Walker, Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On), installation at the Guggenheim, 2000
Damien Hirst, Mother and Child, 1994
Damien Hirst, Mother and Child, 1994
Damien, Hirst, Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living, 1991
Damien Hirst, Away from the Flock, 1994