THAD101 Semester 2 Object Identifications

artist’s name, title, date, medium, movement

Pablo Picasso

“Massacre in Korea”

1951

Oil on plywood

Renato Guttuso

“Occupazione delle terre incolte in Sicilia” (Occupation of Uncultivated Lands in Sicily)

1949

Oil on Panel

Socialist Realism

Renato Guttuso

Battle of Ponte dell'Ammiraglio

1952

Oil on Canvas

Socialist Realism

Armando Pizzinato

A Spectre is Haunting Europe

1950

Oil and Tempera on Canvas

Socialist Realism

Carla Accardi

Purple Red

1963

casein tempera on cotton canvas

Forma 1

Pietro Consagra

Mitical Conversation

1959

Bronze sculpture

Forma 1

Lucio Fontana

Spatial Concepts (Holes)

1966

Waterpaint on canvas, holes in canvas

Spatialism

Lucio Fontana

Neon Structure for the 9th Milan Triennale

1951

Glass tube and neon

Spatialism

Gherasimov

The Kolkhoz Guard

1933

Painting

Socialist Realism

Vera Muchina

Peasant Woman

1927-1930

bronze sculpture

Socialist Realism

Mark Tobey

Lumber Barons

1957

Painting

Informal Art

Wifredo Lam

The Jungle

1942-43

Oil and charcoal on paper mounted on canvas

Cubism & Surrealism

Antonia Eiriz

The Voters

1963

Ink and mixed media on heavy paper laid down on canvas

No movement, but qualities of postwar expressionism

Pablo Picasso

Guernica

1937

Oil on Canvas

Cubism

Alberto Giacometti

Suspended Ball

1930–31

Plaster, painted metal, and string

Surrealism

Alberto Giacometti

Man Pointing (L’Homme au doigt)

1947

Bronze Sculpture

no movement, linked to philosophy of existentialism

Alberto Giacometti

Walking Man I (L’Homme qui marche I)

1960

Bronze sculpture

no movement, linked to philosophy of existentialism

Francis Bacon

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

1944

Oil paint and pastel on Sundeala fibre board

no movement, linked to philosophy of existentialism and postwar expressionism

Francis Bacon

Crucifixion

1965

Oil on Canvas

no movement, linked to philosophy of existentialism and postwar expressionism

Francis Bacon

Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X

1953

Oil on canvas

no movement, linked to philosophy of existentialism and postwar expressionism

Diego Velazquez

Portrait of Innocent X

1650

Oil on Canvas

Sergei Eisenstein

Battleship Potemkin

1925

Silent Film

Soviet epic film

Francis Bacon

Study for the Nurse in the Film Battleship Potemkin

1957

Oil  on Canvas

no movement, linked to philosophy of existentialism and postwar expressionism

Jean Dubuffet

Dhôtel nuancé d'abricot (Dhôtel Apricot-tinted)

1947

Oil on Canvas, portrait scratched into thick surface, like ancient graffiti

Art Brut + Material Informel

Jean Dubuffet

Corps de Dames (Lady’s body)

1950

Ink on Paper

Art Brut

Jean Fautrier

Tete d’otage n.14 (Head of a hostage n. 14)

1944

Paint, plaster, glue, sawdust, sand

Art Informel - Material

Alberto Burri

Catrame 2 (Tar 2)

1949

Tar and black ink

Art Informel - Material

Alberto Burri

Muffa

1951

Oil and pumice stone on canvas

Art Informel - Material

Alberto Burri

Sacco 5P

1953

Burlap bags (torn, patched and stitched), acrylic, vinavil glue, fabric on canvas

Art Informel - Material

Alberto Burri

Grande Rosso (Big Red)

1964

Plastic and combustion

Art Informel - Material

Hans Hartung

Composition II

1953

Etching and Aquatint

Gestural Informel (Tachisme)

Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze)

It's All Over - The City

1947

Acrylic on canvas

Gestural Informel (Tachisme)

Georges Mathieu

Untitled

1959

Oil on Canvas

Gestural Informel (Tachisme)

Mark Tobey

City Lines

1945

Tempera on paper

“White Writing” precursor to Abstract Expressionism

Mark Rothko

Untitled (Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red)

1949

Oil on Canvas

Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock

Blue Poles (Number 11, 1952)

1952

Enamel and aluminum paint with glass on canvas

Abstract Expressionism, Action Painting

Willem de Kooning

Woman I

1950

Oil and metallic paint on canvas

Abstract Expressionism, Action Painting

Allan Kaprow

Performance nr. 8 (Yard)

1961

One of Kaprow’s “Happenings”, a recreation of a junkyard with tires

Performance Art

Cover of the first issue of the calligraphy journal Bokubi, featuring a painting by Franz Kline

June 1951

Franz Kline

Meyron

1960-61

Oil on Canvas

Abstract Expressionism

Inoue Yūichi

花 (Hana; Flower)

1957

Ink, paper, and newspaper

Japanese avant-garde calligraphy

Franz Kline

Untitled II

c. 1952

Ink and oil on cut-and-pasted telephone book pages on paper on board

Abstract Expressionism

Kazuo Shiraga

painted with his feet, swinging from a rope

Gutai (founded 1954)

Saburō Murakami

Paper Tearing

1955

Performance- pasted kraft paper on a wooden frame and crashed his body into the frame, breaking through it

Gutai (founded 1954)

Robert Rauschenberg

Erased de Kooning Drawing

1953

Traces of drawing media on paper with label and gilded frame

New Dada

Robert Rauschenberg

Monogram

1955–59

“Combine”: Oil, paper, fabric, printed reproductions, metal, wood, rubber shoe-heel, and tennis ball on two conjoined canvases with oil on taxidermied Angora goat with brass plaque and rubber tire on wood platform mounted on four casters.

New Dada

Jasper Johns

Flag

1954-1955

Encaustic, oil, and newsprint collage on fabric mounted on plywood, three panels

New Dada

Jasper Johns

White Numbers

1957

Encaustic on canvas

New Dada

Jasper Johns

Target with Four Faces

1955

Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted
by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front

New Dada

Richard Hamilton

Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?

1956

Collage of advertisements, appliances, pop icons

Pop Art

Robert Rauschenberg

Kite

1963

Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas

Pop Art/New Dada

critique of Vietnam War, won 1964 Venice Biennale, confirming Pop Art’s international success

Andy Warhol

Campbell’s Soup Cans

1961-62

Synthetic polymer paint on 32 canvases

Pop Art

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych

1962

Silkscreen print: Silkscreen ink and acrylic paint on canvas

Pop Art

Roy Lichtenstein

Brushstroke

1965

Lithograph on white paper

Pop Art

Claes Oldenburg

Floor Burger

1962

Canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, and painted with acrylic paints

Pop Art

Claes Oldenburg

Pastry Case

1961-62

Jute and muslin cloth soaked in plaster, painted with enamel, containing metal bowls and ceramic plates inside a glass and metal display case

Pop Art

Mario Schifano

Coca-Cola

1962

enamel on canvas paper

Italian Pop Art: The School of Piazza del Popolo

Mario Schifano

Ricordando Balla

1979

Enamel on canvas

Italian Pop Art: The School of Piazza del Popolo

Cesare Tacchi

Primavera allegra

1965

Painting on printed fabric and relief (enamel, pastel, marker, 6 different fabrics, five printed and one plain, sewing thread, nails, kapok, metal zippers, wood)

Italian Pop Art: The School of Piazza del Popolo

Franco Angeli

Natale di Roma (Birth of Rome)

1964

Enamel and calico veil on canvas

Italian Pop Art: The School of Piazza del Popolo

Franco Angeli

Untitled (Souvenir)

1975-78

Mixed media on canvas, black veil

Italian Pop Art: The School of Piazza del Popolo

Tano Festa

Michelangelo according to Tano Festa

1967

Enamel, industrial paint, and marker on canvas

Italian Pop Art: The School of Piazza del Popolo

Arman

Poubelle Ménagére (Household Trashcan)

1960

Trash in a Plexiglas box

Nouveau Réalisme

Yves Kline

Le Vide – The Void

28 April 1958

Galerie Iris Clert, Paris—the gallery was emptied and whitened, the space itself becomes artwork

Nouveau Réalisme

Yves Kline

ANT 82 – Blue Age Anthropometry

1960

Performances in which nude female models covered in IKB (International Klein Blue) paint pressed their bodies on canvas, directed by Klein, often with music

Result: Pure pigment and synthetic resin on paper laid down on canvas

Nouveau Réalisme

Piero Manzoni

Achrome

c.1962

Bread and kaolin (clay mineral)

Conceptual Art - part of Achromes series (1957–1963) of white kaolin surfaces

Piero Manzoni

Merda d’artista (Artist’s Shit)

1961

90 sealed tin cans, each reportedly filled with thirty grams of feces

Conceptual Art, anti-art

Piero Manzoni

Socle du Monde (Base of the World)

1961

Upside-down iron plinth → the world becomes the artwork

Conceptual Art

Donald Judd

Untitled

1964

Orange pebbled Plexiglas and hot-rolled steel

Minimal Art

Carl Andre

Equivalent VIII

1966

120 firebricks

Minimal Art

Donald Judd

Untitled (Stack)

1967

Anodized aluminum + Plexiglas

Minimal Art

Robert Morris

Untitled (L-Beams)

1965

Stainless steel

Minimal Art

Dan Flavin

Monument for V. Tatlin

1964

Cool white fluorescent light

Minimal Art

Joseph Kosuth

One and Three Chairs

1965

Wood folding chair, mounted photograph of a chair, and mounted
photographic enlargement of the dictionary definition of "chair"

Conceptual Art

Sol LeWitt

Wall Drawing 1: Drawing Series II 18 (A & B)

1968

A set of simple instructions for lines in different directions, to be executed by others

Conceptual Art

Jesús Rafael Soto

Penetrable series

first one was in 1967

hanging plastic or textile cords, suspended in a frame

Kinetic Art

Julio Le Parc

Continual Light Cylinder

1962

Mirrors, Wood, acrylic sheet, projectors, and motors

Kinetic Art

GRAV (Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel)

Labyrinth

1963, at the 3rd Paris Biennial

Sequence of 20 perceptual environments (light, reliefs, optical structures)

Kinetic Art

GRAV

A Day in the Street (Une Journée dans la rue)

1966

Public invited to interact with kinetic games in the city (metro, fountains, streets)

Kinetic Art

Georges Maciunas, contains work from multiple artists

Fluxus Year Box 2

1965-68

Fluxus

Yoko Ono

Cut Piece

1964

audience cuts pieces of her clothing

Fluxus

Yoko Ono

Grapefruit

1964

book of event scores

Fluxus

Nam June Paik

TV Buddha

1974

Buddha sculpture watches itself on live TV feed

Fluxus

Nam June Paik

TV Garden

1974–77

TVs placed among living plants

Fluxus

Joseph Beuys

7000 Oaks

1982–1987

Community project: Planting 7,000 oak trees + basalt stones across the city

Fluxus

Joseph Beuys

I Like America and America Likes Me

1974

Performance: Beuys + live coyote for three days

Fluxus

Jannis Kounellis

Untitled (Twelve Horses)

1969

Live horses in gallery

Arte Povera

Jannis Kounellis

Untitled

1969

Jute sacks filled with beans

Arte Povera

Mario Merz

Giap’s Igloo

1968

metal structure, wire mesh, bags of clay soil, neon, batteries, accumulators

Arte Povera

Walter De Maria

The New York Earth Room

1977

A gallery filled entirely with soil

Land Art

Walter De Maria

The Lightning Field

1977

400 stainless steel poles arranged in a grid in a field in New Mexico

Land Art

Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty

1970

Rocks and earth extend into the Great Salt Lake, Utah

Land Art

Michael Heizer

City

1972

Huge land complex resembling an ancient city, made using local dirt, rock, sand, and concrete

Land Art

Michael Heizer

Displaced/Replaced Mass

1969

Large stones moved from mountains to desert pits

Land Art

Ana Mendieta

Siluetas Series

1974–1985

Human silhouette formed with mud, flowers, leaves, fire

Land Art

Guerrilla Girls

Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?

1989

Lithograph Poster

Feminist Art

Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro

Womanhouse

1972

Collaborative project by the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, entire house transformed into a large feminist installation

Feminist Art

Judy Chiacgo

Heaven Is for White Men Only

1973

Sprayed acrylic on canvas

Feminist Art, style rejecting minimalist “neutral” norms

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

1974–1979

Large triangular table with 39 place settings honoring historical and mythical women

Feminist Art

Cindy Sherman

Untitled (Self-Portrait with Sun Tan)

2003

Photography

Feminist Art