Target with Plaster Casts
- Jasper Johns
- 1955
- Encaustic and collage on canvas with objects
- Produced new works that are referred to Neo-Dada
- Encaustic is pigments dissolved in hot wax and drys fast
- Eye stops are the surface (target is flat)
- The work stretched Formalism
Yard
- Allan Kaprow
- 1961
- Similar to Pollock (I am the nature), the viewers are actually involve in the painting
- Used tires, tar paper mounds, and barrels in courtyard
- Kaprow believed that artists "must become preoccupied with and even dazzled by the sp
Marilyn Diptych
- Andy Warhol
- 1962
- Oil, acrylic, and silkscreen on enamel on canvas
- Rather than having meaning inherent in the world, the meaning is moved onto popular culture
- The work is on silkscreen: Warhol made it by pressing ink through a piece of silk mesh
Meat Joy
- Carolee Schneemann
- 1964
- Performance
- Eight men and women first undressed one another, then danced, rolled on the floor ecstatically and played with a mixture of raw fish, raw sausages, partially plucked raw and bloody chickens, wet paint and scraps
Performing Cut Piece
- Yoko Ono
- 1964
- Ono kelt passively on stage while members of the audience were invited to use sewing shears, which were provided next to her, to cut away bits of her clothing to take with them
- This powerful work demonstrated key characteristics of F
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
- Joseph Beuys
- 1965
- Performance
- Fat, felt and copper
- Beuys initially sat visible on a chair in the gallery, which was closed to visitors outside. His head was coated in honey and covered by a mask of gold leaf. In his lap he cradled a dead hare to
Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me
- Joseph Beuys
- 1974
- Performance
- Arrived in the JFK airport wrapped in felt
- Did not talk to a single person during his visit to America
- Suggest the absence of animal and Native Americans in the society
Untitled, from the Silueta series
- Ana Mendieta
- 1976
- Red pigment on beach
- Outline of women's body
- Feminine imagery that suggest her absence and presence at the same time
Tree of Life Series
- Ana Mendieta
- 1977
- Earth-body work with tree and mud
- Shows body in relation to nature
- Working with stereotypes
- A sense of personal dislocation haunted her, and much of her work reveals a need to find deeper connection with her physical surround
Art Must Be Beautiful
- Marina Abramovic
- 1975
- Performance
Relation in Space
- Marina Abramovic and Ulay
- 1976
- Performance
- Violent as two bodies were constantly smashing into each other
Imponderabilia
- Marina Abramovic and Ulay
- 1977
- Performance
- Experience is in the art itself
- Where meaning lies or located (in the viewer's experience)
- Meaning is not longer inherent to the viewers
Rest Energy
- Marina Abramovic and Ulay
- 1980
- Performance
The House with the Ocean View
- Marina Abramovic
- 2002
- Performance
- Artist is present (deprivation)
- Energy described, presence, embodiment (something that cannot be replicated)
Seven Easy Pieces: J Beuys's How to Explain
Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965)
- Marina Abramovic
- 2005
- Performance
- Pushing body limits
- Body Pressure: followed instructions
- Seabed (original artist stayed underneath the stage and only made sound): under the ramp, not visible but can always hear her sound
- Full of mythical i
Pop Art
- Repetition
- Popularized
- Many artists focused their attention on the mid-century explosion in visual culture that was fueled by the growing mass media and the disposable income of the postwar generation
- Originated in Britain in the years soon after
Minimalism
- Repetition
- Not popularized however
- Critique: similar to theater
- Although Minimalism shuns representational subject matter, it is similar to Pop Art in its lack of obvious content, reference to techniques of mass production, and literal presentatio
Happenings (Allan Kaprow)
- Term coined by Allan Kaprow in the 1960s to describe artworks incorporating elements of performance, theatre and visual images. Organized without a specific narrative or intent and with audience participation, the event proceeded according to chance and
Conceptual Art
- Performance and Conceptual Art offered alternatives to established traditions like painting and sculpture that had historically been dominated by men and in which women commonly appeared as passive objects of sexual desire, created by and for men
Performance Art
- Many feminist artists like Schneemann embraced Happenings and other forms of what was beginning to be called performance art (a term that distinguished such events from traditional theatrical presentation)
- These practices offered a powerful tool to ch
Endurance performance
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Appropriation Art
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Re-entacment
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Artists today acknowledge viewers as active participants who make meaning through their individual interpretations and contribute to a work's cultural significance. While recent art may seem challenging at first, it demands we look longer and think harder
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Like Duchamp, who claimed that the artist could choose an object to be art, Cage proposed that artists might use time to bracket ordinary life events in order to heighten our awareness of the experience and thus transform it into a work of art
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