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ARTH 446
1940-1950
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
02/07/2016

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Jean DuBuffet, Will to Power, 1945

 

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Jean Fautrier, Nude, 1943
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Alberto Giacometti, Standing Woman, 1948

 

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Marcel Duchamp, Boite en Valise
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Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm Number 30, 1950

Pollocks appeal rests within his persona

Had strayed from social realism and surrealism 

Only way to read into politics within is in a backhanded way since it's so abstract. 

Refusal to comment- autonomy is in the process

 

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Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimus, 1950-1951


Lines running through coined as "zips"

Lines are sized and spaced differently, invoking a sense of ground with how they're placed. 

 

(Compare with Moment and his placement of tape) 

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Mark Rothko, No 3/No 13, 1949

"Color field"- Flat expanses of color as opposed to mark making

Shapes function as performers where picture plane is a space in which they can move freely. This doesn't work for Greenberg as it's introducing other art forms to painting.

 

Not brought to edges because then it takes on a horizon line

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Agnes Martin, The Tree, 1964

Drew presice lines freehand. 

Became about the process.

 

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