week 9: postwar modern movements

Week 9: Postwar Modern Movements Chapter 23Miss McAlpine

AgendaToday – Modernity; Jeopardy11/8 – Exam on AH; Art theories11/15 – Warhol Museum11/22 – Warhol Presentations11/29 – NO CLASS12/6 – Review for final – finish

paintings12/13 – FINAL EXAM

What are we doing?Review previous materialObtain info on ModernismJEOPARDY review gameContinue paintings!

ANCIENT ART

Paleolithic◦ “Old” “Stone”◦ “Venus of

Willendorf”Mesolithic

◦ “Middle” “Stone” Neolithic

◦ “New” “Stone”◦ “Stonehenge”

“Code of Hammurabi”

“Pallet of Narmar”

Imhotep“The Great

Pyramids”King Tut

PREHISTORIC EGYPTIAN

GREEK & ROMAN Archaic

◦ “Kouros”

Classical◦ Contrapposto◦ “Parthenon”

Athena Parthenos

Hellenistic◦ “The Laocoon

Group”◦ This era saw the

rise of Rome

GREECE “The Collosseum” by

the Flavian family Pantheon – oculus Emperor Constantine

BYZANTINE

“Old St. Peter’s Basilica

Emperor Leo III Empress Theodra

ROME

MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCEMEDIEVAL ART

◦ Barbarians – nomads

IRELAND◦ “Book of Kells”

ROMANESQUE◦ Architecture of mid-11th

to mid-12th century

GOTHIC◦ “Notre Dame of

Chartres”◦ “Rose de France”

RENAISSANCE◦ Linear Perspective◦ Donatello’s David◦ Medici Family◦ Leonardo da Vinci

Art & science = knowledge

◦ “The Creation of Adam”

◦ “The School of Athens”◦ Jan van Eyck◦ “Feast at the House of

Levi”

18th & 19th CENTURIESNEOCLASSICISM

◦ Jacques Louis David◦ “Cornelia, Pointing to

her Children as her Treasures”

ROMANTICISM◦ Robert S. Duncanson

REALISM◦ Academic Art◦ School of Fine Arts◦ Salon

IMPRESSIONISM◦ Edourd Manet◦ Claude Monet◦ Mary Cassatt◦ “The Thinker”

POST IMPRESSIONISM◦ Seurat – Pointillism◦ Cezanne◦ Vincent van Gogh◦ Gauguin

EARLY 20th CENTURYFAUVISM

◦ “les fauves”◦ Henri Matisse

EXPRESSIONISM◦ The Bridge◦ The Blue Rider

CUBISM◦ Geometric

abstraction◦ Synthetic Cubism◦ Braque◦ Picasso

ABSTRACT SCULPTURE◦ Constantin Bruncusi◦ “Bird in Space”

FUTURISM & MOTION◦ Duchamp “Nude

Descending a Staircase”

BETWEEN WORLD WARSDADA

◦ Zurich◦ “L.H.O.O.Q” by

Duchamp

SURREALISM◦ Paris◦ Sigmund Freud◦ Earnest & Dali

DE STIJL◦ The Style◦ Mondrain

POLITICAL PROTEST◦ “Guernica”

AMERICAN REGIONALISM◦ “American Gothic”

HARLEM RENAISSANCE ◦ “The New Negro” by Locke

ORGANIC ABSTRACTION◦ “Forms in Echelon”

Week 9: Postwar Modern Movements Chapter 23Miss McAlpine

Postwar Modern MovementsIt became that whatever an artist

did, or what the museum exhibited, became art

The New York School:◦Many people fled Europe to come to

U.S.◦Artists include Mondrain, Leger,

Duchamp, Dali and Breton

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM- Culmination of expressive tendencies in painting from Fauvism, German Expressionism, and Surrealism- Jackson Pollock – leading innovator

“Autumn Rhythm” by Pollock; 1950

“Elegy to the Spanish Republic” by Robert Motherwell; 1953-54

“Woman and Bicycle” by Willem de Kooning; 1952-53

“Cubi XVII” by David Smith; 1963

“Blue, Orange, Red” by Mark Rothko; 1961

Color field Painting

EVENTS & HAPPENINGS- Cooperative events in which viewers become active participants in partly planned, partly spontaneous performances

“Decoy Gang War Victim” by Richard Hamilton; 1956

POP ART

Used real objects or mass-production techniques in their artWanted to challenge cultural assumptions about def. of art1st appeared in London, but flowered in U.S.

Pop Art CriteriaAccording to London artist, Richard Hamilton

◦ Popular (designed for mass audience)◦ Transient (short-term solution)◦ Expendable (easily forgotten)◦ Low-cast◦ Mass-produced◦ Young (aimed at youth◦ Witty◦ Sexy◦ Gimmicky◦ Glamorous◦ Big Business

“Just What is It that makes Today’s Homes So Different, So

Appealing?” by Richard Hamilton; 1956

Andy WarholMost visible and controversial

exponent of pop artMost famous for his Coca-cola

and Campbell's Soup can

“Marilyn Diptych” by Warhol; 1962

“Little Race Riot” by Warhol; 1962

“Drowning Girl” by Roy Lichtenstein; 1963

MINIMAL ARTArt that referred to nothing outside itself, told no story except for its own shapes and colorsIt was a quest to see if art could still be art without representation, storytelling, or personal feelingDonald Judd was one of the leaders

“Untitled” by Judd; 1967

“Agbatana III” by Frank Stella; 1968

CONCEPTUAL ART

After minimalism, art became only about an ideaBased on the fact that a work of art usually begins as an idea in the artists’ mindWork of art is an idea first, then its creator carries out that ideaCreativity is a mental process

“One and 3 Chairs” by Joseph Kosuth; 1965

SITE WORKS & EARTHWORKS

Site specificSculptural materials designed to interact with but not permanently alter the environment

“Tilted Arc” by Richard Serra; 1981

Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, 1981

Richard Serra, Carnegie, 1985

“Spiral Jetty” by Robert Smithson; 1970

L: Walter De Maria, Lightning Field, 1971-77R: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, 1972-76

EARLY FEMINISM

Late 60’s, many women artists began to speak out against discrimination in their careersRare for women to be taken seriously in artists groups

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79

PERFORMANCE ARTDo not create anything durable, rather perform actions before an audience or in nature

“How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare” by Joseph Beuys; 1965

CONTEMPORARY ART

Kara Walker, Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On), installation at the Guggenheim, 2000

Damien Hirst, Mother and Child, 1994

Damien Hirst, Mother and Child, 1994

Damien, Hirst, Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living, 1991

Damien Hirst, Away from the Flock, 1994