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Art Final (Chapter 20)
Art Since 1945
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/06/2008

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Title: Autumn Rhythm (No. 30)

Artist: Pollock

Date: 1950

Style: abstract exxpressionistic (New York School)

POI: dripped oils and enamal house paints on large canvases in fluid motions

-art with out a purpose

 

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Title: The Seasons

Artist: Lee Krasner

Date: 1957

Style:

POI:bold sweeping curves that express grief and forces of nature

-bursting rounding forms

-limited color choices (red, green black, white)

-married to pollock 

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Title: Woman I

Artist: de Kooning

Date: 1950

Style: Abstract expressionist

 POI: figure inspired by pretty commercial models, however kept veering away

-liquified cubism 

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Title: Mountains and Sea 

Artist: Frankenthaler

Date: 1952

Style:

POI: used thinned oils that she allowed to soak into canvas giving a water color effect

 -worked on the floor like pollock with "dance like movements of the arms and legs"

- uses color field methods

 

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Title: Canyon

Artist: Rauschenberg

Date: 1959

Style: assemblage

POI: chose material that each person would interpret differently

-tried to create chaotic works to show the unpredictability of an urban setting 

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Title: Sky Cathedral

Artist: Nevelson

Date: 1957

Style: assemblage

POI: cubist inspired version

-put together a bunch of junk and painted it all one color

-collected from manhattan 

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Title: Fragment from Homage to New York

Artist: Tinguely

Date: 1960 

Style: Assemblage

POI: Made out of lots of different objects

-its purpose was to self destruct when activated

-activated in front of a large crowd

-total painted white (styled like nevelsons creation)

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Title: Marilyn Diptych

Artist: andy worhal

Date: 1962

Style: silk screening

POI: borrowed the diptych format from byzantine icons of christian saints

-showed fascination with fame by treating star as an icon

-half color, half black and white 

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Title: Seagram Building

[location: New York] 

Artist: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Date: 1956-1958

POI: used custom bronze instead of standard steel for the exterior

-bronze is only ornamental

-tall narrow windows with discreet dark glass

-still uses sullivans three section look 

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Title: Guggenheim Museum

[Location: Bilbao, Spain] 

Artist:Frank O. Gehry 

Date: 1993-1997

Style:

POI: constructed from computer model

-curving metal exterior 

-very expensive because of the specialization needed to construct 

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