The Early 20 th Century Rapid changes: technological-industrial revolution, lights, radios, televisions, cars, computers, airplane, medicine, psychoanalytic movement, WWI decimated a generation of European men, great depression, the rise of Hitler, WWII Rapid changes in art: Growing interest in Japanese woodblock and African art Using new materials Idea of “newness”
Symbolism: images code for a meaning
Cubism:
Realism: seems as reality, no exaggerations
Duane Hanson: realistic sculptures
C) Abstraction: not claim to seem like reality Doesn’t claim to depict reality
Robert Delaunay
Wassily Kandinsky
Willem De Kooning
Jean Debuffet
Wassily Kandinsky
Joan Miro
František Kupka
Fernand Léger
Expressionism Exaggerate form and color to achieve a feeling. The predecessors of this movement are the post-impressionists (including Cézanne and Van Gogh) Edvard Munch
El Greco
Edvard Munch
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Abstract Expressionism Shifted the center of the art world to New York. Also called “action painting” These paintings are “irrational accidents” A rational response to the second world war?
Jackson Pollock
Louise Nevelson
Anselm Kiefer To the Unknown Painter, 1983
Fauvism – an explosion of color The name comes from the word “fauves” which means “wild beasts”. This name was given to them by a critic, who didn’t think much of them. Used color in entirely new ways to try and express emotion.
Henri Mattise
Franz Marc
G) Pop Art: what is popular to pop culture
Lichtenstein – Wham (1963) Pop art
Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958
Roy Lichtenstein
Jasper Johns
Andy Warhol
H) Minimalism: the very simplest of art work
Mark Rothko
Frank Stella
I) Dadaism: reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality
Marcel Duchamp
Raoul Hausmann
J) Surrealism: reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality. Against war. Subconscious mind.
Surrealism: surprise, unexpected juxtapositions, subconscious mind, bizzare
Frida Kahlo
Salvador Dali
K) Environmental art: art in the environment
Environmental Art Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin,
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Robert Smithson: the Great Salt Lake
Robert Smithson
Conceptual art Concept/ideas are more important than aesthetic is art in which the concepts or ideas involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns
L) Conceptual art: the concept behind the art piece is more important than the formalism. Art after Philosophy.
One and Three Chairs, 1965, is a work by Joseph Kosuth. An example of conceptual art, the piece consists of a chair, a photograph of this chair, and an enlarged dictionary definition of the word "chair". The photograph depicts the chair as it is actually installed in the room, and thus the work changes each time it is installed in a new venue. Two elements of the work remain constant: a copy of a dictionary definition of the word "chair" and a diagram with instructions for installation. Both bear Kosuth's signature. Under the instructions, the installer is to choose a chair, place it before a wall, and take a photograph of the chair. This photo is to be enlarged to the size of the actual chair and placed on the wall to the left of the chair. Finally, a blow-up of the copy of the dictionary definition is to be hung to the right of the chair, its upper edge aligned with that of the photograph.
Joseph Kosuth
Lawrence Weiner
M) Found object art Making artwork from found/junk material Robert Rauschenberg
Performance art: performing their art Marina DeBris
N) Mixed media: artwork that was made from more than one medium Robert Rauschenberg's
O) Urban Environment: city life Jean-Michel Basquiat,1980’s:
P) Feminist Art: Art about challenging stereotypes of females, or art made by females Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, Feminist version of the last supper Here, Christ’s apostles have been replaced by place settings of 39 distinguished women (Queen Hatshepsut, Georgia O’Keeffe, author Virginia Woolf)
Susan Rothenberg, Geometric abstraction Partial return to figuration Expressionist quality
Q) Political art: making a statement bigger than self Maya Ying Lin: Veitnam Veterans Memorial, The Mall,
R) Video Art: art on video Nam June Paik Hamlet Robot, 1996
S) Mexican Muralists: Artists from Mexico who painted murals with political symbolism
Diego Rivera
What are current artist doing? Found object originates from the French objet trouvé, describing art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects or products that are not normally considered art, often because they already have a non-art function.
Colin George Jeffrey
Armand Pierre Fernandez
Marina DeBris
Michelle Stitzlein
Patricia Piccinini
mixed media Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.
Robert Rauschenberg
Joseph Cornell
Jane Frank
Recent paintings
Abdala Faye
Architecture Richard Estes, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1979
R. Buckminster Fuller; American Pavilion, Expo ’67, Montreal, 1967
Richard Rogers, Lloyd’s Building, London, 1986:
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry, completed 1997.
Symbolism: images code for a meaning Cubism: Analyzed and multitude of viewpoints of an object Realism: seems as reality, no exaggerations Abstraction: not claim to seem like reality Abstract expressionism: not reality & create mood Expressionism: expressiveness of color to create mood Fauvism: bright vivid colors Pop Art: what is popular to pop culture Minimalism: the very simplest of art work Dadaism: reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality Surrealism: reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality Environmental art: art in the environment Conceptual art: the concept behind the art piece is more important than the formalism. Found object art: Making artwork from found/junk material Mixed media: artwork that was made from more than one medium Urban art: art about city life Feminist art: art about challenging stereotypes of females Video art: art on video Mexican Murals: Artists from Mexico who painted murals with political symbolism