1. Pop Art “The Landscape of Signs”
“In the ten years after 1947 the number of televisions in the United States jumped from ten thousand to forty million,...” (Fineberg)
Rise of the art market – Newly rich collectors like Robert Scull bought in quantity: “Assisted by the careful promotion of a few key dealers, the price of work by the most fashionable younger artists of the sixties escalated as much as 4,000 percent over the decade [1960s]” (Fineberg)

2. POP ART BEGAN IN LONDON (left) Francis Bacon (British, ), Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef, 1954, British Existential Figuration; (right) Eduardo Paolozzi (British, ), Real Gold, collage, 14 x 19 in., 1950, British Pop

3. The Blitz: From September through May 1941, the German Luftwaffe bombed British cities, especially London, almost nightly. Here London fire fighters extinguish flames following an air raid. More than 43,000 deaths and 1,400,000 people were made homeless, 4 million homes destroyed or badly damaged.

4. (left) Eduardo Paolozzi Its a Psychological Fact That Pleasure Helps Your Disposition, 1948, collage. Affirmative or adversarial (avant-garde) posture? Shown in his influential 1952 “Bunk” slide lecture that marks the beginning of British Pop. “Bunk” is from Henry Ford: “history is more or less bunk….we want to live in the present.” (right) Hannah Höch, The Beautiful Girl, collage (photomontage), 1919, Berlin Dada / Adversarial posture toward commercial culture – what was Paolozzi’s attitude towards it?

5. Eduardo Paolozzi, (right) I was a Rich Man's Plaything  1947; (left) Meet the People, 1948, from Ten Collages from 1952 BUNK lecture, collage mounted on card support, 14 x 9.5 in. “The iconography of a new world.”

6. Richard Hamilton (British, b
Richard Hamilton (British, b. 1922) Just What is it That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? Collage (photomontage), 10 x 9”, 1956, KunsthalleTübingen, Tubingen, Germany. British Pop
Hamilton defined Pop Art in a letter dated January 16, 1957: "Pop Art is: popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business."
1964

7. The Independent Group’s “This is Tomorrow” exhibition, 3 installation views, 1956, Whitechapel Gallery (Institute of Contemporary Art) London

8. Richard Hamilton, (left) Towards a Definitive Statement on the Coming Trends in Men's Wear and Accessories (a) Together Let Us Explore the Stars 1962; (right) $he, , both oil & collage on canvas, British Pop

9. (left) Richard Hamilton, The Large Glass or The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even, 1963, an exact copy and homage to (right) Marcel Duchamp, The Large Glass or The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even ; (center) Photo of Duchamp by Hamilton, c. 1968

10. Sixties, “There were two Camps, mine and Clement
Hans Namuth, photograph marking the 25th Anniversary of Leo Castelli Gallery, Standing left – right: Ellsworth Kelly, Dan Flavin, Joseph Kosuth, Richard Serra, Lawrence Weiner, Nassos Daphnis, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenberg, Salvatore Scarpitta, Richard Artschwager, Mia Westerlund Roosen, Cletus Johnson, and Keith Sonnier Seated left – right: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Leo Castelli, Ed Ruscha, James Rosenquist, and Robert Barry
In the late fifties and
Sixties, “There were two
Camps, mine and Clement
Greenberg’s. “ Leo Castelli

11. Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), Before and After, 1961, casein and pencil on canvas, 54 x 69 7/8" 

12. Andy Warhol (American, ), Bonwit Teller window decor, NY, April 1961; (left) Dick Tracy, 1960, casein and crayon, 48” high; A Boy for Meg, 1962 oil on canvas, 72” high

13. Andy Warhol, 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962, acrylic on canvas, screened with hand painted details, 20x16 in. ea (lower right) Ferus Gallery installation, Los Angeles,1962. Warhol’s first gallery show. Repetition and coldness of appropriation from commodity culture is the hallmark of Pop Art. Five canvases sold for $100 each, but Irving Blum, co-owner of Ferus, bought them back to keep the set intact and later partly gifted them to MoMA NYC.

14. Jasper Johns (American, b
Jasper Johns (American, b.1930), Painted Bronze, hand painted cast bronze, 1960, Proto-Pop (Neo-Dada) (right) Warhol, Campbell Soup Can, 1968, screened acrylic on canvas, Pop Art

15. Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga (1967) silk-screening in the Factory, located on the fifth floor at 231 East 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The Factory moved to 33 Union Square West in Warhol used silkscreen from 1962 on.

16. (right) Warholstars group portrait by Gerard Malanga, 1968(
(right) Warholstars group portrait by Gerard Malanga, 1968(?); (left) film still and poster for Warhol's film Exploding Plastic Inevitable, 1966, with the Velvet Underground. The Andy Warhol Museum owns 273 Warhol films and almost 4,000 videotapes.
“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the
surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am…
There’s nothing behind it.”
- Andy Warhol

17. Warhol, (left) Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962, acrylic, silkscreen and oil on canvas; (right) Marilyn, Series followed Monroe’s (probable) suicide in August 1962.

18. Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962, acrylic silkscreen on canvas

19. Andy Warhol, 210 Coca-Cola bottles, 1962, Silkscreen, ink & synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 6’10” x 8’9”

20. Warhol, (left) Jackie, The Week That Was, 1963 (right) Suicide 1963, Acrylic and silkscreen, 6’ H

21. Warhol, Five Deaths Eleven Times in Orange, synthetic polymer paint, silk-screened on canvas, 1963

22. Warhol, (left) Lavender Disaster, 1971; (right top and below) Electric Chair, 1971, screenprints. “Everything I do is connected with death.” (Warhol, 1978)

23. Leo Villareal, The Bay Lights, the world’s largest L. E. D
Leo Villareal, The Bay Lights, the world’s largest L.E.D. light sculpture, illuminates the bridge’s 1.8-mile western span with 25,000 undulating white lights.

24. At the Tate Modern: the conundrum
Andy Warhol, Brillo Box, 1964, acrylic and silkscreen on plywood, 17 x 17 x 15 in
At the Tate Modern: the conundrum
“Greenberg’s narrative … comes to an end with Pop … It came to an end when art came to an end, when art, as it were, recognized there was no special way a work of art had to be.” Arthur Danto (1964)
After the End of Art, 1997
“Is an endless playing with the definition of art all that art now has to offer?”
- Charles Harrison
“Conceptual Art” (Themes)

25. Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997), cover of Newsweek, 1966, New York Pop Art

26. Roy Lichtenstein’s educational background: (left) Reginald Marsh (Lichtenstein’s teacher at the Art Students’ League, NYC), Why Not Take the “L”?, oil on canvas, (right) Flash Lab, Ohio State, where Lichtenstein studied

27. Roy Lichtenstein, Girl With a Ball, 1960 compare with Andy Warhol, Dick Tracy, 1960, New York Pop Art. When Warhol saw Lichtenstein’s cartoon paintings in 1960 he stopped making them.

28. Roy Lichtenstein screened and hand- painted ben day dots, a method of mechanical color printing, evident below in detail from a 1964 painting
See slide show of Roy Lichtenstein studio / process

29. Roy Lichtenstein, 1990 notebook, “Crying girls”

30. Roy Lichtenstein, WAAM! 1963, Magna on canvas, 2 panels; 68 x 166 inches overall; source: a 1962 issue of DC Comics' All-American Men of War
“Lichtenstein was not painting things but signs of things.” Fineberg

33. James Rosenquist, President Elect, oil on masonite, 12 feet wide, (New York Pop Art); (right) mockup for painting and (below) artist in studio “I’m interested in contemporary fission – the flick of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Big-bang! Bing-bang! I don’t do anecdotes; I accumulate experiences.”

34. Rosenquist,(left) right & left halves of F-111, installation, oil on canvas and aluminum, 23 sections, 10 x 86 feet, , The Museum of Modern Art, NY

36. Marisol, Baby Boy, 1963 Marisol, The Family, 1963
Marisol (Maria Sol Escobar, b. 1930) born in Paris of Venezuelan lineage, living in Europe, the United States and Caracas.
Marisol, Baby Boy, 1963
Marisol, The Family, 1963

37. Claes Oldenburg (American, born Sweden, 1929), Snapshots from the City, performance with first wife, Pat Muschinski, at Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, New York. February 29, March 1-2, Performance / Happening at Oldenburg’s “Ray Gun Theater” (right) The Street installation 1960

38. “I am for an art that is political-erotic-mystical, that does
Claes Oldenburg, The Store, Dec. 1, Jan. 31, 1962, Ray Gun Mfg. Co., 107 East Second Street, New York. Roast Beef, 1961, inside studio/store (with artist), view looking out, poster, Green Gallery sponsor.
“I am for an art that is political-erotic-mystical, that does
something other than sit on its ass in a museum.”

39. Claes Oldenburg, Pastry Case I. 1961-62
Claes Oldenburg, Pastry Case I Painted plaster sculptures on ceramic plates, metal platter and cups in glass-and-metal case, 21 x 30 x 15," New York Pop Art "I make my work out of my everyday experiences, which I find as perplexing and extraordinary as can be.“ Oldenburg, 1960

40. Claes Oldenburg. (American, born Sweden, 1929)
Claes Oldenburg. (American, born Sweden, 1929). Green Gallery Installation (2 views), 1962; Floor Cake (right) Synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, 58 3/8" x 9' 6 1/4" x 58 3/8“. Pop Art

41. Oldenburg, Soft Toilet, 1966; Dormeyer Mixer,1965

42. Oldenburg, Giant Lipstick, erect (left) and limp (center), Yale University, 1969. Anti-Vietnam war

43. Claes Oldenburg, Clothespin, 1976, Cor-Ten and stainless steels, 45 ft
Claes Oldenburg, Clothespin, 1976, Cor-Ten and stainless steels, 45 ft. x 12 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 6 in., Centre Square Plaza, Philadelphia. Scale. Carnivalesque humor in public art, as well as inside art world joke in allusion to Brancusi’s 1909 Kiss (above).

44. Wayne Thiebaud (US, b. 1920), Five Hot Dogs, 1961, o/c, 18 x 24 in, Whitney MAA. Thiebaud earned a BA degree from Sacramento State College in 1941 an M.A. degree in Thiebaud’s “Pop” work was in The New Realist show at Sidney Janis (1962 NYC) with other major figures associated with Pop, New Realism, and Gutai
In 1961 Thiebaud met and became friends with major NYC gallerist, Allan Stone (1932–2006

45. Wayne Thiebaud, Boston Cremes, 1962, 14 x 18 in
Wayne Thiebaud, Boston Cremes, 1962, 14 x 18 in.  In 1962 Thiebaud was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Robert Dowd, in the historically important and ground-breaking New Painting of Common Objects, curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum and one of the first Pop Art exhibitions in America.

46. Although women earn more than 1/2 of the MFAs granted in the US, only 1/3 of gallery representation is women. 51% of visual artists today are women, but only 5% of the art currently on display in U.S. museums is made by women   A 2011 Guerrilla Girls survey investigated New York museums and found just four percent of the artists in the Metropolitan Museum's contemporary section were female. MOMA and the Guggenheim fared somewhat better, with 26 and 23 percent respectively.

47. Joan Brown, Fur Rat, 1962, wood, chicken wire, plaster, string, raccoon fur, and nails, 20 x 54 x 14 in. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Bay Area Funk (Beat) and figuration overlapped. Joan Brown was a student of Elmer Bischoff part of both movements.
Joan Brown c.1960
Exhibition of works from the early 70’s including cardboard sculptures (begun in her kitchen from household materials while her studio was under renovation)

48. Joan Brown (US, ), second generation Bay Area Figuration, student of Elmer Bishoff (left) Wolf in Studio, enamel on masonite, 90 x 48”, 1972, Crocker MA, Sacramento (right) Self With Fish, 1970

49. Bruce Conner (US 1933-2008) The Child, 1959-1960
Bruce Conner (US ) The Child, Assemblage: wax figure with nylon, cloth, metal, and twine in a high chair, life size. MoMA NYC. San Francisco North Beach beat counterculture Funk Art that challenged ‘good taste’ of establishment culture.

50. A still from A Movie, a 1958 short by Bruce Conner selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. Conner’s films are non-narrrative assemblages of found footage that do not tell the viewer what to think (anti-ideological) and draw attention to the construction of culture through mass media. (Fineberg p. 181)

51. Jay De Feo, The Rose, 1958-66, 129 x 92 x 11 in
Jay De Feo, The Rose, , 129 x 92 x 11 in., oil on canvas with wood and mica, weighs over a ton. Whitney MAA Related work on view at SFMoMA

52. Edward Kienholz (US, ), Back Seat Dodge ’38 (two views), 1964, tableau with truncated Dodge and mixed materials (plaster casts, beer bottles, chicken wire, artificial grass, etc.) Los Angeles Funk

53. Edward Kienholz, The Wait, 1964–65
Edward Kienholz, The Wait, 1964–65. Tableau: wood, fabric, polyester resin, flock, metal, bones, glass, paper, leather, varnish, black-and-white photographs, taxidermed cat, live parakeet, wicker, and plastic, 80 × 160 × 84 in. (life size) overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

54. Ed Kienholz, The State Hospital (INTERIOR), 1966, Tableau: plaster casts, fiberglass, hospital beds, bedpan, hospital table, goldfish bowls, live black fish, lighted neon tubing, steel hardware, wood, paint, 96 x 144 x 120 in. Moderna Museet, Stockholm

55. Ed Kienholz, The State Hospital (EXTERIOR), 1966, Tableau: plaster casts, fiberglass, hospital beds, bedpan, hospital table, goldfish bowls, live black fish, lighted neon tubing, steel hardware, wood, paint 96 x 144 x 120 in. Moderna Museet, Stockholm

56.
Joseph Cornell, Medici Boy,
Betye Saar (Los Angeles, b. 1930, mixed heritage African, Native American, Irish and Creole). The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, mixed-media assemblage, 1972, BAMFA. Saar began making assemblages after seeing a 1968 exhibition works by Joseph Cornell ( ).

57. Robert Arneson (Benicia, CA 1930-1992)

58. Robert Arneson, John with Art, 1964, glazed ceramic with polychrome epoxy, life size, Seattle Art Museum, gift of Manuel Neri

59. Robert Arneson, Typewriter, 1966, glazed ceramic, around 6 x 11 x 12 in. UC Berkeley Art Museum

61. Robert Arneson, ceramic sculpture California Artist, 1982, on display in front of his studies for the sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

62. Ed Ruscha (US, based in Los Angeles, b
Ed Ruscha (US, based in Los Angeles, b. 1937), Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, 1963, oil on canvas, 5ft 5 in x 10 ft/ Pop and Minimalism/ CA car culture In 1962 Ruscha was included, along with Lichtenstein, Warhol, Thiebaud, et al, in the groundbreaking "New Painting of Common Objects," curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. Ruscha’s first solo exhibition was in 1963 at the Ferus Gallery in LA.

63. Ed Ruscha, Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights, 1962, oil on canvas, 5ft 6in X 11ft 1in, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Hollywood culture

64. Ed Ruscha, Flying A, Kingman, Arizona, from Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 1963, photographic book, sold for $3.50 (An original signed copy is now worth up to $35,000.) Minimalist and California Pop (anti)aesthetic: serial repetition and deadpan view of contemporary reality.
Book cover
Ruscha on his art (1 minute)

65. Through his deliberate lack of style, Ruscha draws attention “to the estranged relationship of people to their rural environment, but without staging or dramatizing the estrangement.” He took around 60 photographs, and selected 26, removing any that he felt were too interesting
Compare Ruscha’s (1963) vision of the American West (above) with Ansel Adams’ interpretation based on 19th century Romantic landscape painting aesthetics (right) Moonrise over Hernandez, N.M. October 31, Adams made “Art” and did not work in other media: skill-based vs. Ruscha’s concept-based photography

66. Rusha’s road trip, California ><Oklahoma
Ansel Adams, Grand Tetons and the Snake River, 1942
Rusha’s road trip, California ><Oklahoma
Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, 1863

67. Ed Ruscha took the photographs of Sunset Strip with a motorized Nikon camera mounted to the back of a pick-up truck. This allowed him to photograph every building while driving – first down one side of the street and then the other. The pictures were then pasted in order they were shot, and the individual buildings were labeled with their respective address numbers. Conceptual and Minimal.

68. Opens to 27 feet. Reinvented the craft and luxury status of the artist book genre by mass production, cheap, machine-made, affordable

69. Ed Ruscha, The Old Trade School Building, 2005, synthetic polymer on canvas 54 x 120 in., from The Course of Empire Series, US Pavilion, Venice Biennale, (bottom) Blue Collar Trade School, 1992, Synthetic polymer on canvas, 54 x 120 in.

70. New Realism (Nouveau Réalisme) International, Paris-centered movement named after the eponymous exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery in New York in AKA the “Slice of Cake School” (Time magazine)

71. Yves Klein (Nouveau Réalist, French, ) (left) Monochrome Blue 3 (IKB [International Klein Blue], 1960, pigment & resin on canvas on wood, c. 6’ H; Compare (right) Kasimir Malevich, Black Suprematist Square, , and (below) compare exhibitions: 1960 Klein and (right) 1915 Malevich (Russian Suprematism)
Klein produced 194 monochromes
between

72. Yves Klein, Anthropométrie performances, Paris, 1960 Anthropométrie de l’époch bleue (Anthropometry of the Blue Epoch), pure pigment in resin on paper mounted on canvas, 1960, Nouveau Réalisme

73. Yves Klein, (left) Le Vide (The Void), Iris Clert Galérie, Paris 1958, gallery installation; (right) Leap into the Void, March 9, 1960, New Realism, altered photograph

74. Daniel Spoerri (Swiss, born Romania, 1922), Hungarian Meal, Trap Picture, 1963, assemblage: metal, glass, porcelain, fabric on painted chipboard In the gallery, which was converted into a restaurant, dishes prepared by Spoerri - an excellent cook - were served by well-known critics. After the meal, the guests constructed their own Trap-Pictures by gluing down what was left on their tables as is.
Called “Eat Art” by Spoerri who later founded the Eat Gallery in Dusseldorf

75. Christo Javacheff (Bulgarian-American, ) Nouveau Réalisme (New Realism), Wall of Barrels, Iron Curtain, , 240 oil barrels, 168” high; (right) Wrapped Wheelbarrow, (Christo met Jean-Claude, his lifetime partner, in Paris in 1958)

76. Niki de Saint-Phalle, (New Realist, French-American, ), Crucifixion, 1963, Fabric pasted over an armature of wire mesh and various affixed objects, 100” high; (right) Jean Dubuffet (Postwar Existentialism, French ) A Tree of Fluids, 1950

77. “In 1961 I shot at: Daddy, all the men, small men, tall men, important men, fat men, men, my brother, society, church, school, my family, my mother, all the men, Daddy, myself, men again.” Niki de Saint-Phalle
“Shoot” paintings

78. Niki de Saint-Phalle, Hon ("She" in Swedish), 1966
Niki de Saint-Phalle, Hon ("She" in Swedish), ton colossus (82'/20'/30'). With Jean Tinguely and Per Olaf Ultvedt as a temporary installation at the Moderne Museet, Stockholm. One of a series of “Nana” sculptures
The Carnivalesque

79. Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, Pompidou Center kinetic Stravinsky fountain from the top floor of the Beaubourg art museum & cultural center. (far left) View of Stravinsky fountain at pavement level

80. Jean Tinguely (Nouveau Réalist, Swiss ), Homage to New York, Kinetic event-sculpture that self-destroyed in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art. New York, March 17, 1960

81. Tinguely’s Nouveau Réalisme Sources: Dada: Marcel Duchamp, (left) Bicycle Wheel (readymade), 1913; (right) Duchamp, Rotorelief, rotative plaques, glass, metal, motor, 1920, kinetic art; (below left ) Francis Picabia (French, ), Amorous Parade, 1919
Tinguely’s Homage to New York
1960

82. The Way Things Go (German: Der Lauf der Dinge) is a 1987 kinetic art video by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. The 30-minute film is a classic of contemporary art: absurdist, dadaist for sure, fascinating.
“It is 6 September In exactly 134 days the space shuttle will explode shortly after take-off, inscribing an eerily beautiful plume of white vapour in the sky. Another 88 days later, again due to a chain of human errors and structural faults, Chernobyl's block four reactor will go into meltdown.” 

83. Above: Survival Research Labs robot
Click link for part of a 2006 performance in San Jose:

84. Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg, Living With Pop, 1963: a performance of “Capitalist Realism” (the artists used this term between 1963 and 1966) when Düsseldorf artist group (Richter, Lueg, and Sigmar Polke) mounted an installation of objects in a local furniture store, installing themselves with the commodities for sale (“living sculptures”) as a demonstration of "Capitalist Realism." To what earlier, state-supported realisms was "Capitalist Realism" responding?
Richard Hamilton, 1956

85. Sigmar Polke, Socken, 1963

86. Gerhard Richter, Party, 1963 (not exhibited in the Living with Pop show)

87. (left) Richter and Sigmar Polke, 1965, from Richter/Polke exhibition catalogue. The artists were almost finished with their studies at the Dusseldorf art academy. (right) Richter, 1998, from Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting exhibition cat.

88. “…photography. . .had no style, no composition,
Gerhard Richter (b. Dresden, 1932), [Nazi officer] Uncle Rudi, 1965, oil on canvas (right) Administrative Building, 1964, Oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 59 “ photo sources – family snapshot and encyclopedia “I believe in nothing” [Richter]
“…photography. . .had no style, no composition,
no judgment. It freed me from personal experience.
That’s why I wanted to have it – not to use it as a
means to painting but to use painting as a means
to photography Richter

89. Gerhard Richter, Aunt Marianne, oil on canvas, 1965, 47 x 51 in from a photograph of Richter as a baby with Aunt Marianne “Whenever I behaved badly I was told you will become like crazy Marianne.”

90. Gerhard Richter, Phantom Interceptors, 1964, oil on canvas, 55" x 6' 3“ (right) Alpha Romeo (With Text), 1965, oil on canvas, 60” x 59”
What is grisaille?

91. Richter, Eight Student Nurses, 1966, oil on canvas, 8 individual paintings, each c. 36 x 27 in

92. Compare Gerhard Richter’s Eight Student Nurses, with Andy Warhol’s Jackie: The Week That Was, 1963

93. Gerhard Richter, October 18, 1977: Baader-Meinhof series, Confrontation 1 and 2, 1988, oil on canvas, all 45” H. The subject is Ulrike Meinhof, the Baader-Meinhof group - or gang – part of the Red Army Faction, was the first of the Marxist terror groups that killed bankers, politicians and bystanders across 70s Europe.

94. October, 1977, news photo of protesters in Stuttgart at funeral of Andreas Baader

96. Final paintings in Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 Baader-Meinhof series titled Tote 1, 2, and 3

97. (left) Gerhard Richter, Betty (Richter’s daughter), 1988, oil on canvas, 40 x 23“ (right) Richter, October 18, 1977 [Ulrike Meinhof] : Baader-Meinhof series, Confrontation 1, Both oil paintings were made in 1988.

98. (left) Gerhard Richter, Iceberg in Fog, 1982, oil on canvas, 27 x 39 in compare (left) Caspar David Friedrich (German Romantic Painter, ) (top) Monk by the Sea (1809) and (bottom) Polar Sea (1823)

99. (left) Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting, 1976, oil on canvas, 26 x 23 in. “After the gray paintings, after the dogma of ‘fundamental painting’ whose purist and moralizing aspects fascinated me to a degree bordering on self-denial, all I could do was start all over again. This was the beginning of the first color sketches.”
Compare concept of Rauschenberg’s
Factum I & II, 1957

100. Gerhard Richter, Untitled, 1987, oil on canvas, 118” square

101. Richter, Betty, 1988, oil on canvas, 40 x 23“ compare (right) Untitled, oil, 1987, 118” “Painting is the form of the picture, you might say. The picture is the depiction, and painting is the technique for shattering it.”

102. Lichtenstein, cover
Of Newsweek, 1966
Sigmar Polke, Bunnies, 1966, Capitalist Realism, acrylic on linen, 58 x 39” A “raster” painting (commercial printing process showing “benday” dots)
Warhol, "Marilyn," 1964

103. Sigmar Polke (German, ), (left) Modern Art, 1968 (right) Polke, Lovers II, 1965, oil and enamel on canvas, 6 ft 3 in x 55 in

104. Ralph Goings, 2011 exhibition poster, Airstream,1970, oil on canvas, 60 x 85 in. MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna

105. Richard Estes (born Kewanee, Illinois, 1932) Telephone Booths, 1968, acrylic on masonite, 48 x 69 in., Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Signature subjects are urban street life – mostly New York City – of the late ‘sixties and ‘seventies.

106. Duane Hanson (US, 1925–1996), Woman with Dog, 1977, cast polyvinyl polychromed in synthetic polymer, with cloth and hair, 46 × 48 × 51 in. overall. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

107. Chuck Close (US, 1940) Self-Portrait, 1967-8, acrylic on canvas, c
Chuck Close (US, 1940) Self-Portrait, , acrylic on canvas, c. 9 x 6 ft., Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

108. Vija Celmins (US based in LA, b
Vija Celmins (US based in LA, b. Latvia 1939), Pan, oil on canvas  24 x 35 in., 1964

109. Vija Celmins, Suspended Plane, 1966, oil on canvas, 24 x 35 x 2 ½ in
Vija Celmins, Suspended Plane, 1966, oil on canvas, 24 x 35 x 2 ½ in., SFMOMA [Celmins on painting process: ]