Marcel Duchamp
"Fountain"
1917
French

Dada

• created many versions of this, 15 remakes by him around the world
• only one surviving photograph of it
• this is where human society is headed

Jean Arp
"Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance"
1916-1917
French-German

Dada

• put piece of paper on the ground, ripped up paper and dropped it
• insulting the idea of modern art and cubism
• slap in the face to artist's contorl over what they create

Raoul Hausmann

"Mechanical Head (spirit of the age)"
1919

German

Dada

• can look through camping cup on top and see the empty head
• number 22 nailed to the head; it doesn't matter, you're just a number
• tape measure to make judgements; but how with an empty head?

George Grosz
"Germany, A Winter's Tale"

1918

German

Dada

• scene of Germany exploding in the background
• saying that German population is empty headed
• Three elements of German society in the front: blind school teacher (education behind a fist), war hero, and priest brainwashed by German military.

Giorgio de Chirico
"Mystery and Melancholy of a Street"

1914

Italian

Surrelism

• combines everyday world and world of fears
• child looks like a living/walking shadow
• strange repetition

Salvador Dali
"The Persistence of Memory"
1931
Spanish
Surrealism

• his best known image, picture of the place where he grew up
• mechanical items becoming organic
• going against obsession with schedules and timing

Rene Magritte

"The Treachery of Images"
1928-1929
Belgian

Surrealism

• "This is not a pipe" artwork, not actual pipe
• influential for 20th century philosophers
• questioning the way we look at and interpret text: we believe anything written down, why would it lie?

Joan Miro

"Painting"

1933

Spanish

Surrealism

• cut pictures out of an automotive catalogue as the beginning point
• liked to start off with science and reason then go crazy
• loved to used process to create art

Meret Oppenheim

"Object (Luncheon in Fur)

1936

Swiss

Surrealism

• wouldn't want to use this in physical capacity
• not a painting, an actual fur covered cup, saucer and spoon
• turning functional objects into something else

Pablo Picasso

"Guernica"

1937

Spanish

Post-Cubism

• done in response to the horrifying boming of civilians in Guernica
• upset a lot of people and members of Nazi government
• can show this is any time period, much different then a photo
• notion of violence and chaos, not a depiction of Guernica itself

Stuart Davis

"Hot Still-Scape for Six Colors - Seventh Avenue Style"

1940

American

Cubism

• fast paced jazz composition being performed
• seventh avenue was a mecca for modern jazz
• things are constantly coming and going before our eyes

Piet Mondrian

"Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow"

1930

Dutch

De Stijl

• one of the most replicated artworks, people think it's easy to replicate
• artist was obsessed when it came to the dimensions of his artwork, strange sense of balance
• perfect grid, no diagonal or curved lines

Fancis Bacon

"Painting"

1946

English

Expressionism

• the man could be Neville Chamberlin, signed peace treaty with hitler, always had flower in lapel and umbrella
• trying to get people to get their priorities straight
• idea of destruction and violence w/ the animal meat

Jackson Pollock

"Autumn Rythem: Number 30, 1950"

1950

American

Abstract Expressionism

• Americans thought "Is this the best American can do?"
• layed canvas on the floor and then threw colors on, you can do this and never replicate it
• let the artworks control him, can see how it was brought to creation

Willem de Kooning

"Women 1"

1950-1952

American

Abstract Expressionism

• all of his artworks were unfinished, never satisfied with his work
• started and stopped this painting over 200 times
• society was fragmented, so he didn't draw bodies as whole

Barnett Newman

Vir Heroicus Sublimis

1950-1951

American

Abstract Expressionism

• means "man, heroic and sublime"
• used "zips", stipres in most of his paitning. paint or masking tape or cut out of artowkr. make you look up and down
• simple but brings up complex ideas, disconcerning experience

Mark Rothko

No 61 (Rust and Blue)

1953

American

Abstract Expressionism

• wanted to create an emotional experience
• his artwork is easy to recognize
• looks like they are floating, but it's just paint on canvas

Richard Hamilton

Just what is it that make's today's homes so different, so appealing

1956

british

pop art

• collage, clipped out of commerical ads
• woman sexualized, cheap comic on the wall to replace traditional art
• shoing us that American pop culture is infecting the rest of the world as well

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych

1962

American

Pop Art

• two piece artwork that opens up like a book, usually used for religious artwork
• picture from movie promotion, fades out on the right side
• images are all the same but slightly different

Roy Lichtenstein

Drowning Girl

1963

American
Pop Art

• drowning in sea of tears and sadness
• artist took this picture and altered it, in reality, the girl is in a swimming pool wondering why her boyfriend isn't paying attention to her
• influence from captain america and other comics

James Rosenquist

F-111

1965

American Pop Art

• painted on large metal panels
• other details related to pop culture, easier to think about then weaponry
• plane ties the whole thing together

Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty

1970

American
Earth Art

• part of a natural environment, created in a remote part of the salt lake in Utah
• nothing arounf this artwork for miles and miles
• will not be around forever
• can't take it out of it's environment without destroying it

Maya Lin

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

1982

American

Earth Art

• : people thought it was melancholy and down beat
•                         : many critics realized that it really made a lot of sense
•                         : emotions played upon very strongly

Joseph Beuys

How to explain pictures to a dead hare

1965

german

performance art

• not everyone will see eye to eye with you, like talking about art to a dead rabbit
• can't give up on communication
• gold mask makes him look like link between animal kingdom and humans

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Table

1979

American

Post-Modernism

• one of best known feminist artworks in the last 40 years
• shine to neglected women in history
• life size dinner table
• feminist version of the last supper

Ilya Kabakov

The Man who flew into space from his apartmet

1981-1988

russian

post-modernism

• a couple of years before the soviet union collapsed
• 
  an actual room you can walk into, installation art
• 
  no light at the end of the tunnel for the soviet union

Felix Gonzalez-Torres;
Untitled;
1991;
American;
Post-Modernism

• lover had just died of aids
• picture of bed they shared
• no caption
• if you asked around, you would be led to written materials.
  
• art as activism
  

Chris Ofili;
The Holy Virgin Mary;
1996;
English;
Post-Modernism

• people said it was an attack on all Christians in general
• trying to say that he is from a mixed variety of background English born of African decent
• if the virgin Mary was real, there should be no shame of anatomical parts