postmodern
Departure from architecutral modernism was dubbed this in the late 1970s.
Public Service buildings
Micheal Graves. 1980-1982. Portland Oregon.
Campus Recreation Center
Thom Mayne and Morphosis. 2006. Univeristy of Cincinnati.
Manufactured Sites.
Teddy Cruz. 2008. Project Schematic. Pays Homage to low-income builders in Tijuana, Mexico.
Blue Head
Susan Rothenberg. 1980-1981. Acrylic on canvas. example of Neo Expressionism
Susan Rothenberg
one of the frist neo-expressionists
Osiris and Isis
Anselm Kiefer. 1985-1987. Oil, Acrylic, emulsion, clay, porcelain, lead copper wire, and circuit board on canvas.
More than you know
Elizabeth Murray. 1983. Oil on Nine canvases.
Better HOmes Better Gardens
Kerry James Marshall. 1994 Acrylic and collage on canvas.
Street Fight
Gajin Fujita. 2005. 24-karat gold leaf, sparay paint, mean streak, paint marker on wood panel triptych.
Untitled Film Still #48
Cindy Sherman. 1979. Black and White Photograph.
Atlas
Vik Muniz. 2008. Photograph from series " Pictures of Garbage
Old Mole
Martin Puryear, 1985. Red Cedar. Represents explores the symbolic meaning of shapes.
To reflect an intimate part of the red
Anish Kapoor. 1981. Pigment and mixed media. Installation. represents ancient religious structures.
Ice man
Kiki Smith. 1995. Silicon Bronze. Represents and example of how artists today are inspired by current events, this work is a commentary on the discovery of a Stone Age Mans body.
this is not an artwork
Rachel Harrison. 2006. represents an array of objects- uncluding a wig, fake fruit and vegatables, an action figure and cement- are arranged as a mditation on what is real and what is representation.
Duvar (Communal Cloth)
El anatsui, is made of discarded bottle liquor bottle caps which represent the triangular trade that brought slavery to America
Cindy Sherman
Used Photography to satirize steriotypes of women.
Vik Muniz
Arranged huge amounts of trash to create noble images of street persons which were then photgraphed
Walid Raad
Developed aged and damaged photo negatives which recorded the lebanese Civil war of the 1980s
Elizabeth Murray
Used a jagged array of canvas fragments to create vibrant, somewhat personal works.
Kerry James Marshall
Used Neo-expressionism to investigate African American Life
Anselm Kiefer
Combined aggressive paint application of the Abstract expressionist movement with historical and mythological subject matter.
Instrument Implement: Walla Walla Comapanile
Buster Simpson. An example of how many artists today consider the enviroment when creating art, this work includes censors that track conditions in a nearby creek
Museum of Modern Art Rooftop Garden
Ken Smith. This work made from colored gravel, asphault and plastic bushes is intended to "hide" the building below it.
Vietnam Verterans Memorial
Maya Lin. Influenced by minimalism and site works of the 1960s and 70s, this V-shaped, black granite wall was intended to speed the process of National rconciliation and healing after a major conflict.
Issue-oriented art
These works comment on a range of issues from advertising, racism, class bias and even common practices of museum display
Public art
Art you may encounter without intending to, these works are accessible to everyone and a response to the hopes and needs of broad masses of people.
Street art
Often blurring the lines of legal and illegal, these bold works are created by artists using pseudonyms who make statements in a widely understandable language
The browning of America
Native American artist Juane Quick-to-see smith. Represents America no longer being "black and white" as races intermingle
Modern Wing
Renzo Piano. Architect. at the art institute of Chicago said that this structure represents contemporary ideas about openness and accessibility.
Untitled
Shilpa Gupta. Allow the viewr to symbolically manipulate the artist by controlling how the figures in the work move
Post modern architecture
characteristics are reflects popular taste, nostalgic, ambiguous.
Gajin Fujita
combined graffiti with gold leaf to make images about the high culture of Asia set in an urban landscape
all of the above
have had an impact on art today.