american art, 1970 to present
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Art Since 1970
postmodernism: a reaction against modernist formalism, seen as elitist . Far more encompassing and accepting than the more rigid confines of modernist practice, postmodernism offers something for everyone by accommodating a wide range of styles, subjects, and formats, from traditional easel painting to installation and from abstraction to illusionism. Postmodern art often includes irony or reveals a self-conscious awareness on the part of the artist of art-making processes or the workings of the art world.
-from Gardner’s Art Through the Ages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCYrBur34ak
Art Since 1970Themes & Styles:• Appropriation
(pastiche) • Multi-media works• Blurring of
boundaries between high vs. low
• Self-consciousness • Deconstruction
(destabilizing meaning)
• Socio-political nature• Inclusiveness &
individuality
Kehinde WileyNapoleon Leading the
Army over the Alps, 2005, oil, American
Jacques-Louis DavidNapoleon Crossing the St. BernardPass, 1801, oil, French
Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them. This is my way of saying yes to us. -Kehinde Wiley
Site-specific ArtROBERT SMITHSON, Spiral Jetty, 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCfm95GyZt4
Feminist Art
JUDY CHICAGO, The Dinner Party, 1979. Fig. 15-21.
CINDY SHERMAN, Untitled Film Still #35, 1979. Fig. 15-22.
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981Photo/collage, fig.15-23
Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814, oilFig.12-3
Feminist Art
Social and Political Art
FAITH RINGGOLD, Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? 1983. Fig. 15-26.
Performance & Conceptual Art
JOSEPH KOSUTH, One and Three Chairs, 1965. Fig. 15-41.
JOSEPH Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965, fig. 15-41
Architecture
FRANK GEHRY, Guggenheim Bilbao Museo, 1997. Fig. 15-37.
New Media
Bill Viola, The Crossing1996, video/sound
Fig. 15-43http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqhaH6m9pY
Final Exam Review:Comparative Essay
• What are the individual characteristics of
each work in terms of style & subject?• How do they relate to the particular historic,
artistic and cultural contexts in which they were
made? • With what artistic movements are they
associated?• Why compare the two art works? What are their
similarities & differences?
#1
Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849
Dorothea LangeMigrant Mother1936
#2Nail figure (nkisi n’kondi)ca. 1875–1900. Fig. 20-13.
Ancestral screen (nduen fobara)Kalabari Ijawlate 19th centuryFig. 20-1.
SUZUKI HARUNOBU, Evening Bell at the Clock, Edo period, ca.
1765. Fig. 18-16.
#3 MARY CASSATT, The Bath, ca. 1892, Fig. 13-6.
#4
Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884-89,bronze, Fig. 13-18
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.1981-83, fig.15-34
http://video.pbs.org/video/1237561998/