Exam III - Postmodern art

TW explicit artworks

Jean Dubuffet

The Cow with the Subtile Nose

Art Brut

1954

Oil and enamel on canvas

Art Brut

Raw art

ugly

looking at art made by uneducated artists, children, mentally ill people

parallels the turmoil in europe (rationing, bad economy)

Existentialism

• dealing with traumas of the war

• the horrors

• how can there be good when there’s no god

• everyone is alone with no inherant connection with other people

Jean Fautrier

Hostage

Existentialism

1945. Oil on paper laid on canvas.

Francis Bacon

Figure in Movement

Existentialism

1976. Oil and dry transfer lettering on canvas.

Alberto Giacometti

Man Walking III

Existnetialism

1960. Bronze.

Georges Mathieu

Mathieu from Alsace goes to Ramsey Abbey

1951. Oil on canvas

Art Informel

• Formless

• organic abstraction

• mirrors abstract expressionism

CoBrA

• copenhagen, brussells, amsterdam

• rejecting de stijl

• more expressive, raw

• the art of children

• interested in van gogh

Karel Appel

Questioning Children

Art Informel

1949. Oil on canvas.

Japanese modern art

• japans opesns after a period of isolationism

• modernization in japan

• inspired by western art

Kuroda Seiki

Lakeside

Japanese art

Yoga (western style)

1897. Oil on canvas.

Yokoyama Taikan, Kutsugen

(The Legendary Chinese Poet Qu Yuan),

NiHonga (Japanese style)

1898. Hanging scroll, colors on silk.

Yoshida Hirosh

Sailing Boats: Evening Glow

Japanese art

Shin hanga (woodblock printmaking)

1921, woodblock print, ink and colors on paper.

Hirai Teruschichi,

Fantasies of the Moon,

Japanese art

1938. Gelatin silver print, painted collage.

Phase: Mother Earth

Sekine Nobuo

Japanese art

Mono Ha (School of thing)

1968. Earth and cement (equally sized hole and cylinder)

Kurokawa Kisho

the Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo, completed 1972.

Japanese art/ architecture

Metabolism (living +changing)

Takashi Murakami

Lots, lots of Kaikai and Kiki

Japanese art

Kawaii style

2009. Acrylic and platinum leaf on canvas on aluminum frame.

Xu Bing,

Monkeys Grasp for the Moon,

Chinese art

2001–2004. Lacquer on Baltic birch wood.

Ai Weiwei

Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)

Chinese art

2010. One hundred million hand painted porcelain seeds.

Shakir Hassan al-Said

Objective Contemplations

1984

Modernism vs Postmodernism

modernism: individual, expressing the emotions and thoughts of the artist, more abstract

Postmodernism: more outward looking, examining the social and political issues of the world around them, more representational

Jasper Johns,

Target with Plaster Casts,

Neo Dada

1955. Encaustic collage on canvas with wood construction and plaster casts.

Robert Rauschenberg

Bed

Neo Dada

Combine (combo of painting and sculpture)

1955. Mixed media.

New Realism

• appropriation

• critical and philosophical

• kind

Arman, Accumulation of Cans, 1960.

New realism

Yves Klein,

Anthropometries of the Blue Period,

new realism but we hate him

Paris, March 9, 1960.

Niki de Saint Phalle, Venus de Milo, 1962.

new realism

Louise Nevelson, Royal Tide IV, 1959-60. Assemblage of found objects.

assemblage

Joseph Cornell, L’Egypte de Mlle Cléo de Mérode: cours élémentaire d’Histoire Naturelle, 1940. Mixed media.

assemblage

Pop Art

• pop culture

• appropriates

• silkscreening

• industrial process

Richard Hamilton,

Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes so Different, so Appealing? 1956. Collage.

Pop art

David Hockney,

I’m in the Mood for Love, 1961

Pop art

Andy Warhol

Orange Disaster,

1963. Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on linen.

Pop art

Roy Lichtenstein, Mr. Bellamy, 1961. Magna on canvas.

pop art

Funk Art

• found materials

• the leftovers of the human experience

• questions of social justice

• meant to make u uncomfortable

Bruce Conner,

BLACK DAHLIA,

1959. Mixed media.

funk art

Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1936. Elmwood.

minimalism

. Isamu Noguchi, Table, 1940.

minimalism

Minimalism

• Modernity

• just a thing, not a sculpture

• Industrial materials (steel, glass, concrete)

• Geometric shapes, 3D, basic form

• spacial relationship, awareness of self instead of being sucked into the artwork

New brutalism

Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith, Park Hill, Sheffield, 1961.

New Brutalism

Bridget Riley, Pause, 1964.

Kenneth Noland, First, 1958. Acrylic on canvas.

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965. Wooden folding chair, photographic copy of a chair, and photographic enlargement of a dictionary definition of a chair; chair.

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1969.

Dan Flavin, Fluorescent Light Installation, 1974.

Carl Andre, Equivalent VIII, 1978.

Carolee Scheemann, Meat Joy, 1964.

Laurie Anderson, Home of the Brave, 1986.

Members of Fluxus, performing Philip Corner’s Piano Activities at Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Wiesbaden, September 1962.

pic of a guy crucified on a volkswagen bug

Chris Burden, Trans-fixed, 1974.

Richard Estes, Holland Hotel, 1984. Oil on canvas

Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1991.

John Ahearn, Veronica and Her Mother, 1988.

Chuck Close, Mark, 1978-79. Acrylic on canvas

Bill Viola, Nantes Triptych, 1992.

Tony Oursler, The Influence Machine, 2000

. Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Late, Utah, 1970.

Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field, New Mexico, 1977.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Wrapped Coast, Little Bay, Sidney, Australia, 1969.