The Visual Artsat Mid-Century

Photography

Ansel Adams

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