Abstract Expressionism to Post Modernism

Facts abt movement and artists

Willem de Koonig

-suffered from alcoholism

-called an action painter

-based iconic painting as femme fatale

Abstract Expressionism characteristics

flatness, spontaneous

1950’s —> action painting

Rothko. Homage to Matisse

-color field

-supposed to make you weep

-not framed

Happenings Characteristics

spontaneous events, flash mob, fluxus

—> flowing

John Cage

a philosopher of the Happenings era, avant-garde composer, created first performance art

Joseph Beuys

was previously a German pilot who was shot down in WWII, saved by nomads

-made a display to convey coexisting w/nature

Pop Art Characterstics

-popular culture, mundane

-challenges commonplace conceptions

Andy Warhol

-obsessed with fame and death

Photo Realism

movement of hyper-realistic art and larger-than-life imagtes

Richard Estes. Telephone Booths

oil painted

Judy Chicago - The Dinner Party

-painted historical women represented by their work w/ 13 plates, each plate had a place

Earthworks

site-specific

-made to raise awareness of natural environments

Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty

-depicts that life’s a cirlce, cycle

-located in great salt Lake in Utah

entropy

lack of order or predictability

Nancy Holt. Sun Tunnels

-Smithson’s wife

-also created a piece in Utah w/ concrete tubes

Maya Lin. Vietnam Memorial

minimalist

-received complaints about her work bc of minimalistic design and lack of hero representation

Damien Hirst

British, world’s richest artist

-created ‘For the Love of God Skull’ about mortality