Chapter 24: Lesson One

 Ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms.
 Believed that European culture had lost all meaning and purpose
 Ended in 1922

 Most ordinary and absurd objects featured in art
 Bicycle Wheel
 Bottle rack and bicycle wheel mounted on a stool.

Mona Lisa with a Moustache

 Dreams, fantasy, and the subconscious served as inspiration for artists
 Rejected control, composition, and logic

 The Persistence of Memory
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Death and decay symbolized by dead tree and strange sea monster decomposing on a deserted beach
Limp watches = someone (the artist) can twist time as they see fit
Apparition of Face and Vase on a Beach

 Worked on scraps of burlap, paper, glass, and linen
 Studied shells, coral, butterfly wings, stained glass, and mosaics
 Landscape with Yellow birds

 Popular realistic art style in which artists painted the scenes and events that were typical of their sections of
America.

 American
Gothic:
 Simple faith and determination

 Loneliness/despair typical emotions expressed
 Nighthawks

 Georgia O’Keefe
 Inspired by nature
 Subjects: New York skyscrapers, clean white bones, desert shadows, mountains of the Southwest, and flowers
 Pink Tulip
 Deer’s Skull with Pedernal

 After WWII
 Apply paint freely to huge canvases to show feelings and emotions rather than realistic subject matter .
 Emphasized spontaneous, physical actions involved in painting.

 Random drops of paint
 Layered works
 Purpose: express feelings NOT illustrate them
 Color choice influenced by his feelings at the time
 Image Number 8

 Pop Art
 Op Art
 Hard Edge Painting
 Photo-realism

 1950’s England
 1960’s USA
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made of picture clippings
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Andy Warhol: Marilyn Monroe

 Op Art
 Non-objective art: create an impression of movement on the picture surface by means of optical illusion
 Rotating Snake

 Placed importance on the crisp, precise edges of the shapes in their paintings .
 Smooth surfaces, hard edges, pure color, simple geometric shapes

Frank Stella: Double Scramble

 Style so realistic it looked photographic
 Alfred Leslie
 Modeled style after
Caravaggio
 The Accident

 NOT a photo-realist
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