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Week 9: Postwar Modern Movements

Week 9: Postwar Modern Movements. Chapter 23 Miss McAlpine. Agenda. Today – Modernity; Jeopardy 11/8 – Exam on AH; Art theories 11/15 – Warhol Museum 11/22 – Warhol Presentations 11/29 – NO CLASS 12/6 – Review for final – finish paintings 12/13 – FINAL EXAM. What are we doing?.

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Week 9: Postwar Modern Movements

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  1. Week 9: Postwar Modern Movements Chapter 23 Miss McAlpine

  2. Agenda • Today – Modernity; Jeopardy • 11/8 – Exam on AH; Art theories • 11/15 – Warhol Museum • 11/22 – Warhol Presentations • 11/29 – NO CLASS • 12/6 – Review for final – finish paintings • 12/13 – FINAL EXAM

  3. What are we doing? • Review previous material • Obtain info on Modernism • JEOPARDY review game • Continue paintings!

  4. PREHISTORIC EGYPTIAN 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

  5. GREEK & ROMAN ROME GREECE • Archaic • “Kouros” • Classical • Contrapposto • “Parthenon” • Athena Parthenos • Hellenistic • “The Laocoon Group” • This era saw the rise of Rome • “The Collosseum” by the Flavian family • Pantheon – oculus • Emperor Constantine BYZANTINE • “Old St. Peter’s Basilica • Emperor Leo III • Empress Theodra

  6. MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE • MEDIEVAL 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”

  7. 18th & 19th CENTURIES • NEOCLASSICISM • Jacques Louis David • “Cornelia, Pointing to her Children as her Treasures” • ROMANTICISM • Robert S. Duncanson • REALISM • Academic Art • School of Fine Arts • Salon • IMPRESSIONISM • EdourdManet • Claude Monet • Mary Cassatt • “The Thinker” • POST IMPRESSIONISM • Seurat – Pointillism • Cezanne • Vincent van Gogh • Gauguin

  8. EARLY 20th CENTURY • FAUVISM • “les fauves” • Henri Matisse • EXPRESSIONISM • The Bridge • The Blue Rider • CUBISM • Geometric abstraction • Synthetic Cubism • Braque • Picasso • ABSTRACT SCULPTURE • ConstantinBruncusi • “Bird in Space” • FUTURISM & MOTION • Duchamp “Nude Descending a Staircase”

  9. BETWEEN WORLD WARS • DADA • 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”

  10. Week 9: Postwar Modern Movements Chapter 23 Miss McAlpine

  11. Postwar Modern Movements • It 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

  12. - Culmination of expressive tendencies in painting from Fauvism, German Expressionism, and Surrealism - Jackson Pollock – leading innovator Abstract Expressionism

  13. “Autumn Rhythm” by Pollock; 1950

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

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

  16. “Cubi XVII” by David Smith; 1963

  17. Color field Painting “Blue, Orange, Red” by Mark Rothko; 1961

  18. - Cooperative events in which viewers become active participants in partly planned, partly spontaneous performances Events & Happenings

  19. “Decoy Gang War Victim” by Richard Hamilton; 1956

  20. Used real objects or mass-production techniques in their art Wanted to challenge cultural assumptions about def. of art 1st appeared in London, but flowered in U.S. POP ART

  21. Pop Art Criteria • According 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

  22. “Just What is It that makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?” by Richard Hamilton; 1956

  23. Andy Warhol • Most visible and controversial exponent of pop art • Most famous for his Coca-cola and Campbell's Soup can

  24. “Marilyn Diptych” by Warhol; 1962

  25. “Little Race Riot” by Warhol; 1962

  26. “Drowning Girl” by Roy Lichtenstein; 1963

  27. Art that referred to nothing outside itself, told no story except for its own shapes and colors It was a quest to see if art could still be art without representation, storytelling, or personal feeling Donald Judd was one of the leaders MINIMAL ART

  28. “Untitled” by Judd; 1967

  29. “AgbatanaIII” by Frank Stella; 1968

  30. After minimalism, art became only about an idea Based on the fact that a work of art usually begins as an idea in the artists’ mind Work of art is an idea first, then its creator carries out that idea Creativity is a mental process CONCEPTUAL ART

  31. “One and 3 Chairs” by Joseph Kosuth; 1965

  32. Site specific Sculptural materials designed to interact with but not permanently alter the environment SITE WORKS & EARTHWORKS

  33. “Tilted Arc” by Richard Serra; 1981

  34. Richard Serra, Tilted Arc, 1981

  35. Richard Serra, Carnegie, 1985

  36. “Spiral Jetty” by Robert Smithson; 1970

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

  38. Late 60’s, many women artists began to speak out against discrimination in their careers Rare for women to be taken seriously in artists groups EARLY FEMINISM

  39. Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79

  40. Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79

  41. Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79

  42. Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1973-79

  43. PERFORMANCE ART Do not create anything durable, rather perform actions before an audience or in nature

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

  45. Contemporary Art

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

  47. Damien Hirst, Mother and Child, 1994

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