1939-1945

Dividing Period. 

Unresolved Issues (unfair treatment of Germany)

Escalation- 40 million dead

Impact- exile of European avant-garde, NYC becomes center of art world. 

European Expressionism

Alberto Giacometti

Man Pointing

 cares about working with materials, cares more about the process than the final product.

European Expressionism

emphasis on significance of the individual and the irrational. completely isolated.

European Expressionism

Francis Bacon

Painting

Kind of reflection on existentialism, humans have lost the spirituality and now are just 'meat'. 

European Expressionism

Jean Dubuffet

Vie Inquiète

Art Brut- made by non-specialists 

dark and idea of scars

Emphasize form over content. 

Clement Greenberg- offical voice of abstract expressionism. interested in purity- natural trajectory of art history- gets rid of subject matter. 

Abstract Expressionism

Gestural Abstration

Jackson Pollock

Number 1, 1950

Drip Paintings (1947-1952)- learns with mexican muralists

All-Over Composition- same elements all over, any part could be exchanged for another

Signature Style- no one else can do it quite the same.

Abstract Expressionism

Gestural Abstraction

Willem de Kooning

Woman I

clearly gestural, turns female into witch or monster, actually his wife. 

Abstract Expressionism

Chromatic Abstraction

Barnett Newman

Vir Heroicus Sublimis

signature zips. 

The Sublime- religious experience with pure color. 

Abstract Expressionism

Chromatic Abstraction

Mark Rothko

No. 14

Loosely expressively painted.  Depth in layers, impossible to photograph.

Audience responses to painting like he is. 

Abstract Expressionism

David Smith

Cubi XIX

Arranged top heavy, giving us composition only possible with steel and welding and new technique. 

'like he gave wings to lifeless steel'

Post-Painterly Abstraction

Ellsworth Kelly

Red Blue Green

Hard Edge Painting- no color mixing, large areas of hard color

Post-Painterly Abstraction

Helen Frankenthaler

The Bay

Stained Canvvas- waters down the paint so much it stains it rather than laying on top of it

Acrylics- can thin out so much without halo effet

married to Greenberg, wanted it to be like one brush stroke

Post-Painterly Abstraction

Morris Louis

Saraband

Ultimately spiritual. 

Copies Frankenthaler because of her husband. 

Post-Painterly Abstraction

Frank Stella

Mas o Menos

Shaped Canvas- change shape. 

making new objects

what you see is what you see

Minimalism

Tony Smith

Die

Cover all three dimensions

Minimalism

Donald Judd

Untitled

Specific Objects, 1965- specific objects in literal space

Pop Art

Richard Hamilton

Just What Is It...?

Pop Art

Jasper Johns

Flag

Encaustic- pigment and wax, oldest medium and so important

Pop Art

Robert Rauschenberg

Canyon

Combines and Arbitrary Accumulations- objects don't relate to one another

Pop Art

Roy Lichtenstein

Hopeless

Stencils and Ben-Day Dots

Pop Art

Claes Oldenburg

Lipstick

Visual Elaboration

Pop Art

Andy Warhol

Green Coca-Cola Bottles

Pop Art

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych

Silkscreens and The Factory

Superrealism

Audrey Flack

Marilyn

Objects shown at different angles and vantage points

Air Brush

Superrealism

Chuck Close

Big Self Portrait

not always photographic affect, expressive marks up close.

Superrealism

Duane Hanson

Supermarket Shopper

Super realistic. Realism isn't idealism

Conceptual Art

Joseph Kosuth

One and Three Chairs

object purely visual, text purely conceptual. 

chair isn't a chair anymore

Conceptual Art

Bruce Nauman

The True Artist Helps...

statement or concept that has been solidified into visual art

Performance Art

Joseph Beuys

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

Shamanism, think of healing the art world

Performance Art

Carolee Schneemann

Meat Joy

Statement of sexual liberation or else statement of womens bodies treated like meat

Site-Specific Art

Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty

Earth Art- not always earth friendly

Monumental earth art, like ancients- possible to be there for thousands of years

Site-Specific Art

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Surrounded Islands

Temporary, community or public art.

Site-Specific Art

Richard Serra

Tilted Arc

Felt dangerous, huge steel

Site-Specific Art

Maya Ying Lin

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

New Media

Nam June Palk

Global Groove

Sony Partapk 1965- like a video camera, portable

Video Synthesizer- modify the video with color, distortion, etc

New Media

Bill Viola

The Crossing

New Media

Tony Oursler

Mansheshe

New Media

David Em

Nora

Protest Art

Faith Ringgold

Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemina?

racial sterotypes

story quilts

Protest Art

Lorna Simpson

Stereo Styles

Protest Art

David Hammons

Public Enemy

Installation Art

Protest Art

Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

Trade

Modern pieces connected with ancient native symbols

Protest Art

Adrian Piper

Cornered

Protest Art

Leon Golub

Mercenaries IV

Cold war- red and green to represent each side, or terrible human emotion

Protest Art

Willie Bester

Homage to Steve Bilko

fully aware of and borrowing from western culture.

south african discrimination

Protest Art

Hans Haacke

Metromobiltan

Institutional Critique

Protest Art

Chris Ofili

The Holy Virgin Mary

contrasting idea of mary from culture to culture

Mayor Giuliani vs the Brooklyn Museum 1999- Museum wins

1964

Lots happening now, not always shown in art

1965- present

Offers financial support to artists, how much control does the government have?

1966

Turning Point in feminism

Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago founded.

Feminist Art

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

Women from history to be recognized

Feminist Art

Miriam Schapiro

Anatomy of a Kimono

crafts material associated with women

Feminist Art

Cindy Sherman

Untitled

The Male Gaze

Embodied cultural sterotypes. 

Feminist Art

Barbara Kruger

Untitled

trained as a graphic designer

Feminist Art

Hannah Wilke

Starification Object Series

Feminist Art

Guerrilla Girls

The Advantages of Being...

Late Modern Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright

Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum

Not functional. 

"Sculptural Unity"

Late Modern Architecture

Le Corbusier

Notre-Dame-du-Haut

Late Modern Architecture

Joern Utzon

Sydney Opera House

Late Modern Architecture

Ero Saarinen

Trans World Airlines Terminal

Late Modern Architecture

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Seagram Building

Postmodern Architecture

Robert Venturi

House in Eastern Delaware

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture 1966

Postmodern Architecture

Charles Moore

Piazza d'Italia

fragmented

Postmodern Architecture

Philip Johnson and John Burgee

AT&T Building

Postmodern Architecture

Michael Graves

The Portland Building

Postmodern Architecture

Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano

Pompidou Center

Majority of Modern Art here

Postmodern Architecture

Gunter Behnisch

Hysolar Institute Builidng

Deconstructivism

Most efficent building energy wise

Postmodern Architecture

Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Bilbao Museum

Compound Curvature

Postmodern Architecture

Daniel Libeskind

Denver Art Museum

Neo-Expressionism

Julian Schnabel

The Walk Home

Neo-Expressionism

Susan Rothenberg

Tattoo

Neo-Expressionism

Anselm Kiefer

Nigredo

Neo-Conceptualism

Jeff Koons

Pink Panther

Neo-Conceptualism

Mark Tansey

A Short History of Modernist Painting

International Postmodernism

Xu Bing

A Book from the Sky

made up language or symbols for a language

International Postmodernism

Song Su-Nam

Summer Trees

International Postmodernism

Kimio Tsuchiva

Symptom

back to natural materials

International Postmodernism

Cliff Whiting

Tawhiri-Matea

traditional has become modernized

International Postmodernism

Emily Kame Kingwarreye

Untitled

International Postmodernism

Trigo Piula

Ta Tele