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Action Painting/Gestural Abstraction
a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.
Chromatic Abstraction/Color Field Painting
style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s; characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas; creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane.
New York School (Abstract Expressionism)
1940s, group of artists that had previously worked in the WPA (Works Progress Administration); believed in individuality of artists, different styles and theories
automation
In art, the use of largely automatic equipment in a production process; Andy Warhol's silkscreen process
silk-screen printing
An industrial printing technique that creates a sharp-edged image by pressing ink through a design on silk or a similar tightly woven porous fabric stretched tight on a frame.
Pop art
art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.
Narcissus
(Greek mythology) a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection
Entropy
gradual decline into disorder.
Earthwork art
the art or process of creating artwork constructed of the earth
gable
The triangular part of a wall that is enclosed between the sloping portions of a roof.
Woman, I
Artist: Willem de Kooning
Period: Abstract Expressionism
Dates: 1950-1952 C.E.
Culture: America
Material: Oil on canvas
The Bay
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler
Period: Color-Field
Dates: 1963 C.E.
Culture: America
Material: Acrylic on canvas
Marilyn Diptych
Artist: Andy Warhol
Period: Pop Art
Dates: 1962 C.E.
Culture: America
Material: Oil, acrylic and silkscreen enamel on canvas
Narcissus Garden
Artist: Yayoi Kusama
Period:
Dates: Original installation and performance 1966 C.E.
Culture:
Material: Mirror balls
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
Artist: Claes OldenburgPeriod: Pop Art
Dates: 1969-1974 C.E.
Culture: America
Material: Corten steel, steel, aluminum and cast resin; painted with polyurethane enamel
Spiral Jetty
Artist: Robert SmithsonPeriod: Earthwork
Dates: 1970 C.E.
Culture: Great Salt Lake, Utah, U.S.
Material: Earthwork: mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks and water coil.
House in New Castle County
Architects: Robert Venturi, John Rauch, Denise Scott Brown
Period: Post Modern Architecture
Dates: 1978-1983 C.E.
Culture: Delaware, U.S.
Material: Wood frame and stucco
