The Zone System – divides the range of tones into ten zones ranging from Zone 0 (pure black) to Zone IX (pure white) Assists in printing black and white photos to emphasize detail
Ansel Adams
Painting
Pablo PicassoGuernica1937, Oil on Canvas
Jackson Pollock
American
Action Paintings
“The modern painter cannot express his age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age finds its own technique.”
Jackson PollackNumber 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)1950, Oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas
Mark Rothko
Russian Jew who came to AmericaColor Field PaintingBest viewed 18 inches away“The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.”Killed himself
Mark RothkoUntitled 1960, Oil on canvas
Mark RothkoBlack on Maroon 1958, Oil on canvas
Mark RothkoBlack on Maroon1959, Oil on canvas
Edward HopperNighthawks1942, Oil on canvas
Francis Bacon, Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953, Oil on canvas
Sculpture
Alberto GiacomettiCity Square1948, Bronze
George SegalBus Riders1962 Plaster, cotton gauze, steel, wood and vinyl
Architecture
Eero SaarinenTrans World Airlines Terminal, Kennedy Airport, New York1962
Frank Lloyd WrightThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York1957 - 1959
Frank Lloyd WrightThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum interior1957 - 1959
Ludwig Mies Van der RoheSeagram Building, New York1954 - 1958