Modern Art History - Exam 5

1) Extententialism

2) Absurdity of human existence

3) Post WWII Europe

4) Sees the representation of the human as grotesque

5) Odd Coloring (Bacon, DuBuffet)

5) Isolation (Giacometh)

Painting

Bacon

1946

Extistentialism

Man Pointing No. 5

Giacometti

1947

Existentialism

Vie Inquiete (Uneasy Life)

DuBuffet

1953

Existentialism

1) Abstract Expressionism

2) N.Y. School - Post WWII group

3) Formal abstraction (often to the point of the non-objective)

4) Feeling/subconscious

5) Reaction/connection with the viewer

Garden in Sochi

Gorky

1943

Abstract Expressionism

Number 1, 1950 (Lavender mist)

Pollock

1950

Abstraction Expressionism

The Seasons

Krasner

1957

Abstract Expressionism

Woman 1

de Kooning

1950-1952

Abstract Expressionism

1) Post Painterly Abstraction

2) Greenberg named this group

3) Hard edge - Resin

4) Pure non-objective work

5) Flatness

Red Blue Green

Kelly

1963

Post Painterly Abstraction 

Mas o Menos (More or Less)

Stella

1964

Post Painterly Abstraction

Saraband

Louis

1959

Post Painterly Abstraction

1) Minimalism

2) Concerned with object hood

3) Appreciate the medium

4) Recognize the space

5) Greenberg says its “too conceptual” and “lacks aesthetic surprise”

Die

Smith

1962

Minimalism

Tropical Garden

Nevelson

1957-1959

Cumul I

Bourgeois

1969

1) Pop

2) Recognizability

3) Repetition

4) Rooted in the commercial art

Just What is it That Makes Today’s Homes so Different, so Appealing?

Hamilton

1956

Pop

Three Flags

Johns

1958

Pop

Canyon

Rauschenberg

1959

Pop

Marilyn Diptych

Warhol

1962

Pop

1) Superrealism

2) Influenced by photography

3) Acute sense of detail

4) Influenced by Pop (recognizability)

5) Absorb visual information

Marilyn

Flack

1977

Superrealism

Big Self Portrait

Close

1967-1968

Superrealism

1) Feminist

2) Post-Modernism

3) Challenge to the gaze

4) Looking at women as the artist

5) Looking at women as the subject

The Dinner Party

Chicago

1979

Feminist

Untitled Film Still #35

Sherman

1979

Feminist

Stereo Styles

Simpson

1988

Feminist

Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face)

Kruger

1983

Feminist

One and Three Chairs

Kosuth

1965

Conceptual

The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths

Nauman

1967

Conceptual

Spiral Jetty

Smithson

1970

Site Specific

Vietnam Memorial

Lin

1981-1983

Site Specific

Tilted Arc

Serra

1981

Site Specific

Removed 1989

Untitled

Basquiat

1981

Neo-expressionism