Jean Fautrier, Head of a Hostage no.22

 Series of the Hostages. Head of a Hostage, The Flayed, The Massacre. He would use “candy” colors. Used plaster and poastel dusting to create work (crumpled and thrown). Colors were kitsch. Makes things strange, and doesn’t feed into expectations. (*Parodied how the Nazi’s handled the war, “everything was okay” but it really hid something terrible) Really held true to Art Brut, and the idea of the formless.

Jean Dubuffet. La Metafisyx 1950

Founder of Art Brut. Destruction of form. Had his own collection of tribal and insane asylum works. Paste and cut up canvases, digging and slashing strokes. Defacing and defiling to destroy form. (Even though his work really does have form, although it is distorted.)

Jackson Pollock One (Number 31)

interested by native American art as well as surrealism (abstract style).  Experiments with a pouring paint technique, and creates works that are very large.

Optics- All about color and line

Figures- Formless

Process- Way that he painted the picture 

Hans Namute did a movie on Pollock

Jackson Pollock Number 14

Abstract Expressionism

Same idea as other pollock  

Robert Rauschenberg with John Cage Automobile Tire Print

Dada Redux- Scandal against abstract expressionalism

Ellsworth Kelly Colors for a Large Wall

Oil on canvas

Colors arranged by chance

Avoidance of internal drawing- Noncomposition battle with geometric abstraction

Cy Twombly Free Wheeler

Recoding the autographic mark

form of grafitti

Abstract expreeionism, criminal violation, self recognition

Repetition and randomness as a strategy for noncomposing 

Kazuo Shiraga Work II

Made with foot

Gutai movement- Body as tool, Minimalist and antiform, followers of pollock

Pictures less significant than actions

whole thing about temporary

Saburo Murakami Passage    

Same deal

Lygia Clark Animal

Store flat

one can never be in control of the other

Christo & Jeanne-Claude Wall of Barrels, Iron Curtain

Neo avantgarde

about the cold war

de collage

Jean Tinguely Homage to New York

Self destructing machine 

Jacques de la Villegle and Raymond Hains Ach Alma Manetro     asthetic of industrial production or collaborations

Arman Premier Portrait-robot d’Yves Klein  

Mixed grid and chance

unclassifyable and arranced by assimilation

Study of psychology – the moment we see something abstract we are trying to make sense of it.

Movement after WWI, anti-art movement. Critiqued the whole establishment of art and education. Looked naïve, childish and innocent compared to Art Brut.

Works  produced by persons unscathed by artistic culture. Everything is pure artistic, and raw, completely reinvented by artists’ own impulses. Drawing should deny figure any particular shape, and prevent assumption. Destruction of form. Return to something completely uncultured. Mental institution art, natives. Weird perspectives, obsessive details.