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The Visual Arts at Mid-Century

The Visual Arts at 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.

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The Visual Arts at Mid-Century

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  1. The Visual Artsat Mid-Century

  2. Photography

  3. 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

  4. Ansel Adams

  5. Painting

  6. Pablo PicassoGuernica1937, Oil on Canvas

  7. 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 Pollock

  8. Jackson PollackNumber 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)1950, Oil, enamel, and aluminum on canvas

  9. Russian Jew who came to America Color Field Painting Best 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 Rothko Mark Rothko Untitled 1960, Oil on canvas

  10. Mark Rothko Black on Maroon 1958, Oil on canvas

  11. Mark Rothko Black on Maroon 1959, Oil on canvas

  12. Edward HopperNighthawks1942, Oil on canvas

  13. Francis Bacon, Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953, Oil on canvas

  14. Sculpture

  15. Alberto GiacomettiCity Square1948, Bronze

  16. George SegalBus Riders1962 Plaster, cotton gauze, steel, wood and vinyl

  17. Architecture

  18. Eero SaarinenTrans World Airlines Terminal, Kennedy Airport, New York1962

  19. Frank Lloyd WrightThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York1957 - 1959

  20. Frank Lloyd WrightThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum interior1957 - 1959

  21. Ludwig Mies Van der RoheSeagram Building, New York1954 - 1958

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