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
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What are we doing?
Review previous material
 Obtain info on Modernism
 JEOPARDY review game
 Continue paintings!
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ANCIENT ART
PREHISTORIC
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EGYPTIAN
Paleolithic
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◦ “Old” “Stone”
◦ “Venus of Willendorf”
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Mesolithic
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◦ “Middle” “Stone”
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Neolithic
◦ “New” “Stone”
◦ “Stonehenge”
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“Code of
Hammurabi”
“Pallet of Narmar”
Imhotep
“The Great
Pyramids”
King Tut
GREEK & ROMAN
GREECE
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Classical
“The Collosseum” by the
Flavian family
 Pantheon – oculus
 Emperor Constantine
◦ Contrapposto
◦ “Parthenon”
BYZANTINE
Archaic
◦ “Kouros”
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ROME
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 Athena Parthenos
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Hellenistic
◦ “The Laocoon
Group”
◦ This era saw the rise
of Rome
“Old St. Peter’s Basilica
 Emperor Leo III
 Empress Theodra
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MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE
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MEDIEVAL ART
◦ Barbarians – nomads
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IRELAND
◦ “Book of Kells”
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ROMANESQUE
◦ Architecture of mid-11th to
mid-12th century
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GOTHIC
◦ “Notre Dame of Chartres”
◦ “Rose de France”
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RENAISSANCE
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Linear Perspective
Donatello’s David
Medici Family
Leonardo da Vinci
 Art & science = knowledge
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“The Creation of Adam”
“The School of Athens”
Jan van Eyck
“Feast at the House of
Levi”
18th & 19th CENTURIES
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NEOCLASSICISM
◦ Jacques Louis David
◦ “Cornelia, Pointing to
her Children as her
Treasures”
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ROMANTICISM
◦ Robert S. Duncanson
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REALISM
◦ Academic Art
◦ School of Fine Arts
◦ Salon
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IMPRESSIONISM
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Edourd Manet
Claude Monet
Mary Cassatt
“The Thinker”
POST
IMPRESSIONISM
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Seurat – Pointillism
Cezanne
Vincent van Gogh
Gauguin
EARLY 20th CENTURY
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FAUVISM
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◦ “les fauves”
◦ Henri Matisse
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EXPRESSIONISM
◦ The Bridge
◦ The Blue Rider
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CUBISM
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Geometric abstraction
Synthetic Cubism
Braque
Picasso
ABSTRACT SCULPTURE
◦ Constantin Bruncusi
◦ “Bird in Space”
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FUTURISM & MOTION
◦ Duchamp “Nude Descending
a Staircase”
BETWEEN WORLD WARS
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DADA
◦ Zurich
◦ “L.H.O.O.Q” by
Duchamp
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DE STIJL
◦ The Style
◦ Mondrain
POLITICAL PROTEST
◦ “Guernica”
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AMERICAN REGIONALISM
◦ “American Gothic”
SURREALISM
◦ Paris
◦ Sigmund Freud
◦ Earnest & Dali
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE
◦ “The New Negro” by Locke
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ORGANIC ABSTRACTION
◦ “Forms in Echelon”
Week 9: Postwar Modern
Movements
Chapter 23
Miss McAlpine
Postwar Modern Movements
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It became that whatever an artist did, or
what the museum exhibited, became art
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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
Color field Painting
“Blue, Orange, Red” by Mark Rothko;
1961
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 art
Wanted to challenge cultural assumptions
about def. of art
1st appeared in London, but flowered in
U.S.
Pop Art Criteria
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According to London artist, Richard Hamilton
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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 Warhol
Most visible and controversial exponent
of pop art
 Most famous for his Coca-cola and
Campbell's Soup can
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“Marilyn Diptych” by Warhol; 1962
“Little Race Riot” by Warhol; 1962
“Drowning Girl” by Roy Lichtenstein; 1963
MINIMAL ART
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
“Untitled” by Judd; 1967
“Agbatana III” by Frank Stella; 1968
CONCEPTUAL ART
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
“One and 3 Chairs” by Joseph Kosuth; 1965
SITE WORKS &
EARTHWORKS
Site specific
Sculptural 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, 1971-77
R: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, 1972-76
EARLY FEMINISM
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
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 ART
Do 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