Art 26: Europe and America after World War II
Postwar Expressionism in Europe
School of London
Frances Bacon
Painting
Art Brut
Jean Dubuffet
Cow with the Subtle Nose
Existentialism/Surrealism
Alberto Giacometti
Man Pointing
Abstract Expressionism
Willem De Kooning
Woman I
Lee Krasner
The Seasons
Jackson Pollock
Number 30 (Autumn Rhythm)
Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)
Color Field Painting
Barnett Newman
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Mark Rothko
No. 14
Assemblage
Louise Nevelson
Sky Cathedral
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Bowl with Folds
HA Schult
Trash People
Neo-Dada
Robert Rauschenberg
Canyon
1
Pop Art
Jasper Johns
Flag
Roy Lichtenstein
Hopeless
Claes Oldenburg
Clothes Pin
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Diptych
Minimalism
Donald Judd
Untitled
Maya Ying Lin
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Agnes Martin
Leaf
Superrealism
Chuck Close
Big Self-Portrait
Duane Hanson
Supermarket Shopper
Tourists
Environmental Art/Earthworks/Site-Specific Art
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Surrounded Islands
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty
2
Postmodernism in Painting, Sculpture, and New Media
Body Art
Ana Mendieta
Silueta (Silhouettes) Series
Feminist Art
Judy Chicago
The Dinner Party
Betye Saar
The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #35
Installation Art
Damien Hirst
Mother and Child Divided
Narrative Art
Mark Tansey
The Innocent Eye Test
The Purity Test
Neo-Expressionism
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Backs
Anselm Kiefer
Märkischer Heide
Video Art
Nam June Paik
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S.
***Please be aware that these classifications are convenient niches
for this course. Many of these artists could be placed in several of
the categories.
Vocabulary
Abstract
appropriation
assemblage
benday dots
“combine” paintings
constructivism
3
earthworks
femmage
formalism
gesturalism
“Happening”
kinetic
minimalist aesthetic
pluralism
popular culture
postmodernism
4