Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm 1950

New York School-Action Painting

Barnett Newman Vir Heroicus Sublimus 1950-51

New York School, field of color

      Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959

-treats canvas like tabletop

-interested in commodity culture

         Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962

-   Incorporation of pop culture into high art realm

Marilyn Monroe symbol of popculture

  Pop artists deflating seriousness of abstract expressionism, but still learning from them

Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952

-thinned out oil paint on unprimed canvas

-billow shapes still part of canvas-paint doesnt raise it at all

-still not considered field of color, mention role of females

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1966

-steel boxes with plexigrass inside

Eva Hesse, Sans II, 1968

-reaction against factory aesthetic of 60s minimalism

-boxes made of latex, handmade

-still has some parts of minalism-reptition, boxes