·       Duane Hanson, Supermarket Shopper (1970)

·       Alberto Giacometti, City Square (La Place) (1948)

existential art, men defining themselves

·       Richard Hamilton, Just What is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956)

Abstract Expressionism

·       Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret (1943)

Abstract Expressionism

·       Jackson Pollock, Number 27 (1950)

Abstract Expressionism

·       Willem de Kooning, Seated Woman (ca. 1940)

Abstract Expressionism

·       Willem de Kooning, Pink Angels (1945)

Abstract Expressionism

·       Willem de Kooning, Excavation (1950)

Abstract Expressionism

·       Mark Rothko, Green on Blue (1956)

Abstract Expressionism

·       Helen Frankenthaler, The Bay (1963)

Abstract Expressionism

·       Alexander Calder, Black, White, and Ten Red (1957)

Abstract Expressionism

mobile

·       David Smith, Blackburn: Song of an Irish Blacksmith, frontal and profile views (1949-1950)

Abstract Expressionism

requires the person to move to see the full effect of the sculpture, requires active participation from the viewer

·       Robert Rauschenberg, Bed (1955)

Combine work

·       Jasper Johns, Three Flags (1955)

Abstract Expressionism

·       Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, Fox River, Plano, Illinois (1950)

international style

·       Frank Lloyd Wright, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1957-1959)

International Style

museum's form echos the natural world

·       Andy Warhol, Installation view of Campbell’s Soup Cans, installation at Ferus Gallery (1962)

Pop Art

redefined the American landscape as the visual equivalent of the supermarket aisle

·       Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #20 (1962)

Pop art

·       Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych (1962)

Pop Art

Warhol does not depict her as a person but a personality, the creation of a Hollywood studio system whose publicity shot Warhol repeats over and over until the point of erasure = commentary on why she committed suicide

·       Roy Lichtenstein, Oh, Jeff... I Love You, Too... But... (1964)

Pop art

·       Roy Lichtenstein, Little Big Painting (1965)

Pop Art

uses the brushstroke of Abstract Expressionism without any emotion

·       Claes Oldenburg, Soft Toilet (1966)

pop art

·       Frank Stella, Pagosa Springs (1960)

minimalist art

what you see is what you see, it is just paint and a brush, nothing more

·       Faith Ringgold, God Bless America (1964)

shows a patriotic woman (flag and star) who is also a racist (jail bars and police badge)

·       Romare Bearden, The Dove (1964)

the breaks, leaps of consciousness, distortions, paradoxes, reversals, and telescoping of time and surreal blending of style show the African American history

·       Claes Oldenburg, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks(1969)

popart, antiwar

·       James Rosenquist, F-111 (1964–65)

Pop art, antiwar

·       Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah (April 1970)

site-specific art, created to avoid galleries, environmental art

·       Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California (1972–76)

site-specific art work, repurposed supplies from the Vietnam war

·       Eva Hesse, Ringaround Arosie (March 1965)

she said that people took this art sexually even though it was just supposed to be a circle

·       Judy Chicago, Pasadena Lifesavers, Yellow No. 4 (1969–70)

feminist art

·       Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party (1974–1979)

feminist art, each place around the table is a different influential woman. Triangle = vagina showing that the only thing they all had in common is that they are women

·       Frank Gehry, residence, Santa Monica, California (1997–98)

postmodern architecture, draws attention to itself as architecture

·       Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (1997)

Post modern architecture

creates city into more difficult whole

·       Santiago Calatrava, Design for Port Authority Trans Hudson (PATH) station, World Trade Center Site (2004)

postmodern architecture

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• Renzo Piano, Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center in Nouméa, New Caledonia (1991–98)

green architecture, preserves the culture in the architecture

Herzog & de Meuron, The Bird’s Nest, Beijing National Stadium (2004–08)

green architecture

soil heats and cools itself, translucent ceiling provides light for grass, collects rain water to use

·       Gerhard Richter, Meadowland (1992)

postmodern

blurs the lines between photograph and painting

·       Gerhard Richter, Ice (2) (1989)

postmodern abstract

·       Yinka Shonibare, Victorian Couple (1999)

shows the blending of cultures worldwide and the confusion of identifying with a culture

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·       Judith F. Baca, Farmworkers at Guadalupe (1990)

postmodern

shows how Latino culture has come and blended into American in California

·       David P. Bradley, White Earth Ojibwe and Mdewakaton Dakota, Indian Country Today (1996–97)

postmodern

shows the contemporary life in the Southwestern pueblos, shows Anglo-American cultural appropriation of Native traditions, commercialization of native traditions

·       Shirim Neshat, Rebellious Silence, from the series Women of Allah (1994)

postmodern

subverts the stereotype of women as submissive, commentary on Islamic culture and their treatment of women

·       Shahzia Sikander, Pleasure Pillars (2001)

postmodern

shows influence of East and West