Abstract Exprsiionism
A culmination of the expressive tendencies in painting from fauvism, German Expressionism, and the automatic methods of surrealism.
Jackson Pollock
The leading inventor of Abstract Expressionism studied in the 1930s with both Thomas Hart Benton and the Mexican Muralist David Siqueiros.
Jackson Pollock
Hans Namuth. 1950. Gelatin silver paint
Autum Rhythm
Jackson Pullock. 1950. Oil on Canvas
Action Painting
Dripping, pouring or flinging paint in rhythmical, dancing movements.
Color Field
term for painting that consists of large areas of color with no obvious structure, central focus, or dynamic balance.
Mark Roghko
now best known as apioneer of color field paintings, although his early works of the 1930s were urban scenes.
Blue, Orange, Red
Mark Roghko. 1961. Oil on canvas.
Helen Frankenthaler
she pioneered staining techniques as an extension of Jacson Pollock's poured paint and mark Rothko's fields of color.
Mountains and sea
Helen Frankenthaler. 1952. Oil and charcoal on canvas.
Robert Motherwells
Series of paintings titled elegy oth the spanish republic is permeated with a tragic sense of history.
Elegy to the spanish republic No. 34
Robert Motherwell. 1953-1954. Oil on Canvas.
Willem De Kooning
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Woman and Bicycle
Willem de Kooning (1940-1997). 1952-1953. oil on canvas.
Norman Lewis
African American artist who participated in Abstract Expressionism from its inception.
Untitled
Norman Lewis. 1947. Oil on canvas
David Smith
for many critics the most important American sculptor of the postwar period, took the formal ideas of cubism and gave them an American Vigor.
Cubi XVII
David Smith. 1963. Polished stainless steel
Velasca Tower
BBDR. 1954-1956. Milan Italy.
Lever House
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. 1952. New York City. example of International style 20th century architectural movement that promoted clean masses with efficient, practical design and exposed strcutural supports.
Planalto Palace
Oscar Niemeyer. 1960. Presidential Residence. Brasilia, Brazil.
Assemblages
loose conglomerations of seemingly random objects.
Robert Rauschenberg
started combining ordinary objects and collage materials with Abstract expressionistic brushwork in what he called "combine-paintings
Monogram
Robert Rauschenberg. 1955-1959. Frestanding combine. in this work robert added everyday objects to collage and expressionist painting; this style of work is known as combine-painting
Tracer
Robert Rauschenberg (American B 1925). 1963. Oil and silkscreen on canvas.
Jasper Johns
deceptively simple works.
Target with four faces
Jasper Johns. 1955. Assemblage: encaustic on newspaper and collage on canvas with objects, surmounted by four tinted plaster faces in wood box with hinged front.
John Doe
Edward Kienholz. 1959. Free-standing assemblage. Oil and paint on mannequin parts; perambulator, toy, wood, metal, plaster, plastic, rubber.
Niki De saint phalle
made paintings and collages and then symbolically killed them by piercing them with nails, darts, or even gunshots.
St. Sebastian, or the portrait of my love
Niki de Saint Phalle. 1960. Oil, fabri, darts, and nails on wood and dartboard. this is an example of the continuing in fluence of dada an early 20th century art movement
Jean Tinguely
Made machines that do just about everything except work in the manner we expect.
Homage to New York: A Self-constructing, Self-Destructing work of art
Jean Tinguely. 1960
Happenings
Cooperative events that are partially planned, paritally spontaneous in which viewers become active participants.
Allan Kaprow
Was first to use the term Happening
Household
Allan Kaprow. 1964. Happening commissioned by Cornell University, Performed May
Pop Art
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Richard Hamilton
British artist who in 1957 identified serveral characteristics of Pop Art including Mass-produced, gimmicky, young, witty, sexy, glamorous
Just what is it that makes todays homes so different, so appealing?
Richard Hamilton. 1956. Collage.
James Rosenquist
worked as a billboard painter after attending art school.
F-111
James Rosenquist. 1965. Oil on canvas with aluminum, four parts.
Andy Warhol
no American artist in the 1960s sparked more public indignation then this artist. He didn not invent pop art but was its most visible and controverial exponent.
Marilyn Diptych
Andy warhol. 1962. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas.
Little Race Riot
Andy Warhol. 1964. Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen on canvas.
Roy Lichetnstein
used comic book images with their bright primary colors, impersonal surfaces, and characteristic printing dots.
Drowning GIrl
Roy Lichetenstein. 1963. Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas.
Claes Oldenburg
for several decades he has been finding inspiration in the common, mass-produced artifacts of American society
Two Cheeseburgers with everything (Dual Hamburgers)
Claes Oldenburg. 1962. Burlap soaked i plaster painted with enamel.
Minimalists
as minimalism developed, paintings came to be seen as objects themselves, rather than representations of other things.
Donald Judd
a leader of the Minimalists movement. Worked with industial materials sucs as sheet metal, aluminum, and milded plastics. NEVER TITLED HIS WORK
Untitled
Donald Judd. 1967. Stainless steel and plexiglass, ten units.
Blue, Green, Yellow, ORange, red
Ellsworth Kelly. 1966. Oil on canvas, 5 panels.
Frank Stella
his paintings of the 1960s emphasize the flatness of the picture plane and its boundaries.
Agbatana III
Frank stella. 1968. Flourecent acrylic on canvas.
Conceptual art
an out growth of minimalism.
Marcel Duchamp
Conceptual movement heavily indebted to this man the first champion of an art of ideas.
Joseph Kosuth
The most rigorous early conceptualis, was perplexed by the materialism of the art market and pop art's embarce of commercialism.
One and three chiars
Joseph Kosuth. 1965. Wooden folding chair, phtographic copy of a chair, and photographic enlargemtn of dictionary definition of a chair.
Running fence.
Christo and Jeanne-claude. 1972-1976. Sonoma and marin counties, CA. Nylon fabric and steel poles.
The lightning field
Walter De Mariea. 1977. Quemado, New Mexico. 400 stainless-steel poles,
Site Work
Man-made elements interact with the natural enviroment; for example the lightning field by walter de Maria.
Earthworks
sculptural forms made of materials such as earth, rocks, and sometimes plants.
Robert Smithson
one of the founders of earthworks movement
Sprial Jetty
Robert Smithson. 1970. Great salt lake, Utah. Earthwork.
Amba
James Turrell. 1982. Light installation. medium used is Light.
Drawn Stone
Andy Goldsworthy. 2005. Appletone Greenmoor sandstone. Site-specific stone installation at the de young museum, San Francisco.
Early Feminists
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The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago. 1979. Mixed Media. Triangular table on white tile. This work illustrates feminist ideas which were especially important during the 1970s.
Rebirth of Venus
Nancy Spero. 1984. Hand printing on paper.
Le baiser de L'artiste
Orlan. 1976-1977. Mixed Media with paint, metal chain, phtographs, wood, bliking diode. artificial candles, artificial flowers, and CD.
Performance art
artists do not create anything durable but rather act before and audience or in nature; for example, Tree of life series by ana mendieta
I like American and America likes me
Joseph Beuys. 1974. Perfomance at Rene Block Gallery.
Tree of Life Series
Ana Mendieta. 1977. Performance at old mans creek, iowa city, IA.
The temple of confessions
Guillermo Gomez-Pena and roberto Sifuentes. 1994
Chapter 24
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Sunrise over the eastern sea
Fujishima Takeji. 1932. Oil on canvas. and example of how late 20th-century japanese artists were influenced by post impressionism, a style which had originally been inspired by Japanese art in the 19th century
Take him in
Li Hua. 1946. Woodcut.
Waterfall on a lofty cliff
Zhang Daqian. was inspired by ancient chinese master painters and the western art movement called color field painting
The Swing
Amrita SHer-Gil demonstrates a synthesis of ancient indian art like the caves at Ajanta, and the color schemes and flat patterns of western, modern painter Paul Gauguin
Man
M.F. Husain. 1951 oil on canvas.
Egypt awakening
Mahmoud Mukhtar. 1919-1928. Shcist. show the influecne of ancient egyptian art ant the simplified structure of Constantin Brancusi.
Funeral and a crecent
Ibrahim Mohammed El-Salahi. 1963. Oil on hardboard.
Street Scene
Gerard sekoto. 1945. Oil on canvas this work was purchased in sercret by the South African National Gallery because aparheid policy racial segregation forbade purchasing works from black artists.
Ana Mmuo (land of the dead)
Uche Okeke. 1961. Oil on board.
Chinese League of left wing artists
This government sponsored group supported communist ideals by creating low-cost, widely dissemnated works depicting political and economic problems in the 1930s.
Gutai
This group fucntioned from 1954-1975 and proclaimed the end of traditional art making.
Zaria art Society
In the 1950s a group of Nigerian students formed this group with the goal of expressing more of their African identity in their work.
The holy virgin Mary
Chris Ofili. 1996. Acrylic, oil, resin, paper collage, glitter, map pins and elephant dung on linen. This work was a the center of a heated censorship battle between the brooklyn museum and former new york city mayor rudolph Giuliani