"Black Square"

Kazimir Malevich

1930

Suprematism

- Leading person in the arts

- Took ideas from cubisim

- Doesn't refer to nature at all

- Trying to free hisself from external nature

- Black square = pure feeling

- White = void beyond feeling

- Pure feelings is supreme over reality

"From Slavery through Reconstruction"

Aaron Douglas

1930

Harlem Renaissance

- Refers to the movement of the arts in Harlem New York

- Inspired by cubisim.

- Flat, silloette like figures

- Urge to vote

- Man breaking shackles

- Cotton pickers

- Pointing to capital building

"American Gothic"

 Grant Wood

1930

Regionalism

- Regionalism = Artist who embraced isolation from Europe

- Returned to paint what he knew, thought people should paint what they knew.

- Sharp, gothic window.

- Rigid figures

- Dentist and sister

"Gas"

Edward Hopper

1930

Regionalism

- Know for american scenes

- Known for small, absorbed figure in large setting

- Show connection with nature

"Shoeshine Sign in a Southern Town"

 Walker Evans

1940

Social Realism

- Has social message

- Different textures

"Migratory Cotton Picker"

Dorothea Lange

1940

Social Realism

- Illustration rural life and proverty

- Think of the actual person

- Lack of voice = hand over mouth

"Ancient Mexico"

Diego Rivera

1940

Social Realism

- Commisioned by government for palace

- Conquerers

- Pre colobian mexico, before discovered by europe

- Step pryamid

- Vladamire lennon = Communist government

- Look stacked on top of one another

"Marxism Will Give Health to the Sick"

Frida Kahlo

1940

Social Realism

- Surreal like work

- Commies with give health to the sick

- strangling capitalism

- Eye ball on hand  = reason

- Blood =  physical and mental pain

"Equivalent"

Alfred Stieglitz

1930

American Abstraction

- Major player in modern art

- More about formal effects of clouds

- Wanted photography to be seen as creative art

- 291, showed modern as well as photography

- Contrast in color to convey feeling

"Black and White"

Georgia O’Keefe

1930

American Abstraction

- Contrast of rough and smooth

- Possiblities of line and color

"Garden in Sochi"

Archile Gorky

1940

Abstract Expressionism

- Image of garden

- Use line and color to convey a mood

- Leafless tree

- Give veiwer pleasent visual sensation

"White Light"

Jackson Pollock

1940

Abstract Expressionism

- "Action painting" - "Arena in which to act"

- Freely painting

- Used stick, house paint

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"Mahoning"

Franz Kline

1940

Abstract Expressionism

- Renonced painting figures

- Reduced to only black and white

- Action painter, used house painting brush

Woman and Bicycle

de Kooning

1940

Abstract Expressionism

- Large staring eyes

- Distorted body

- Straight, slashing lines

- Inspired by advertising

"Number"

Mark Rothko

1940

Abstract Expressionism

- "Color feild painter"

- Unconcious that connected everyone, used color.

- Appeal to all people of all cultures

"The Bay"

Helen Frankenthaler

1950

Abstract Expressionism

- "Color feild," and action painter

- Pouring paint onto canvas

- nova scosa

"Empress of India"

 Frank Stella

1950

Abstract Expressionism

- "Hard edge painting." Clean lines, sharp edges

- Odd shaped canvas

"Black Wall"

Louise Nevelson

1950

Abstract Expressionist Sculpture

- Made out of found objects

- Place obects in wodden boxes (paint everything one color)

- Everything sets in as one object

Cubi XXVII

Louise Nevelson

1950

Abstract Expressionist Sculpture

- Purly abstract

- Gesturaly curving patterns

- meant to be seen outside

"Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?"

Richard Hamilton

1960

Pop Art

- Sick of sleek asteticts

- Showing like of material excess

- Figures through back to old standards

- Counter artistic images

"Three Flags"

Jasper Johns

1960

Pop Art

- Exploration of boundary between everything and art

"Retroactive I"

Robert Rauschenberg

1960

Pop Art

- Silk screen

- Faling man, fall of man

- Nude decending the stairs, decent of man

- Kenedy, god like hand pose

- An event that has an effect on an act done previously

"Elvis I and II"

Andy Warhol

1960

Pop Art

- Celebrate the values of regular people

- Comment on celebrity worship

- Fading into the past

"Campbell’s Soup I (Tomato)"

Andy Warhol

1960

Pop Art

- More of an object than work of art

"Torpedo…Los!"

Roy Lichtenstein

1960

Pop Art

- Very linear

- Crsip clear oulines

- Massed produced look

- Intrigue to look closer

"Soft Switches"

Claes Oldenburg

1960

Pop Art

- Make ordinary different

- Different look with each location

"Clothespin"

Claes Oldenburg

1960

Pop Art

- Interested in value of size

"Aubade"

Bridget Riley

Op Art

1970

- Doesn't relate to any object

- "Music about or occaping day break"

"Utitled"

Donald Judd

1970

Minimalism

- All formal

- No feeling of the artist, just about formal effects with ways of positioning

"Laocoön"

Eva Hesse

1970

Post-Minimalism

- "Art and live inceprible"

- Reference from acient greve statue (names Lacoon)

- coiling forms over soild stuctrue

"Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me"

Joseph Beuys

1970

Conceptualism

- Temporary, won't stay

- Art as a means of eliminating boundaries of art and life

- Action sculptures

- Coyote - what was wrong with america

- Coming to heal the sick nation

"Guggenheim Museum"

Wright

1950

Late Modern Architecture

- Novel art with something functional/useful

- Paintings are never flat

 "Piazza d’Italia:

Moore

1980

Post-Modern Architecture

- Less is a bore

- Return of traditional architectural features

- Intense colors

- Interested in Las Vegas

"Portland Public Services Building"

Graves

1980

Post-Modern Architecture

- Cubisim and classical architecture

- Brown vertical objects evoke colums

- Trazodal obejct like huge, giant, keystone

- Critized for not blending in with green base

"Guggenheim Museum"

Gehry

1980

Post-Modern Architecture

- Metalic flower

- Lime stone covered blocks with thin sheets of titanimum

"Self-Portrait"

Close

1980

Photo Realism

- Wanted help with poses

- Didn't want to show any evidence of that artist's hand

- Trnaslated each square of photo to canvas

"Self-Portrait"

Close

1980

Realism

- All done by hand

- Very close to the picture plane

- Immidiate impact

"The Dinner Party"

Judy Chicago

1980

Feminist Art

- Wanted to show respect to certain women

- Designed for each woman

- Quilting and embordary

- Vaginal immagry

- 990 other women on the floor

- Upside down triangle = feminine

"Untitled"

Sherman

1980

Feminist Art

"Spiral Jetty"

Smithson

1980

Environmental Art

- Took the art out into nature

- Prehistoric like stone work

- Made of rocks

- Great salt lake brought back origins of life

- Shows the end of life as well because of saltyness

"The Umbrellas"

Christo and Jean-Claude

1980

Environmental Art

- 12 mile link in japan

- Yelloe umbrellas, yellow, in california

- Opened October 9th

- Blue = limits space

- Forge a community of supporters, not just show off

- Taken out after 18 days, alluminum recylced

"CARBON/OXYGEN"

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1980

Post Modern Art

- Street graffiti style.

- Wanted works to look like a child did it for raw senserity

- Show dangerous sense of the city/modern life

- Title = breathing, technology polutioning air you breath. "Poison the air we breath or make it remain clean."

- Not depicting as he sees it, but as he feels it.

"To the Unknown Painter"

Anselm Kiefer

1980

Post Modern Art

- Scroched aperence of landscape meant to evoke feeling of war

- Painting how the landscape makes him feel, showing the scars of war.

- Protests facist persucustion of artist

- Monument to memorials creativity in scorched, burned landscape.

- Creatvity can defeat the forces of war and destruction

"Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington D.C"

Maya Ying Lin

1980

Post Modern Art

- 70 slabs of granite

- 246 ft long wings

- 58, 133 americans death in war, in order of death

- Self reflective

- names= everyone becomes equal in death

- Reflects washington mounument and lincoln memorial

- Requested momunment  without political or military content

"New Hoover Convertibles"

Jeff Koons

1980

Post Modern Art

- Refers to everyday world

- Ready mades

- From his series "the new," comments on consumers never ending desire for the new, art's status as a comodity under captilism

"Self-Portrait"

Robert Mapplethorpe

1980

Post Modern Art

- Was seen as obscene.

- "Eye of the storm."

- Straightforward interpitation

- work made by artist are by definition art

- Fought against

- Legal test of obsienty, no value, literay, art, etc.

"TV Buddha"

Nam Jun Paik

1980

Post-Modernism Finale

- Trying to merge two mediums

- Meditating in front of TV

-  Buddha and TV

"Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate"

Matthew Barney

1980

Post-Modernism Finale

- Mergings theather, art, drama, sculpture, dance, etc.

- Mockery of hollywood

- Five files, eplore process of creation and sexual differation

- Ranges from myth, to surreal fantasy, to genetics

- Cremaster = muscle of testicles.

- The head is distorted from how are expectations of how a face should look.

- Attacts are narrascissum by threatening our own sense of being human.