ART AFTER WWII ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM “action painting” MINIMALISM, CONCEPTUAL ART POP-ART,...

ART AFTER WWII

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM “action painting”

MINIMALISM, CONCEPTUAL ART

POP-ART, OP-ART

Jackson Pollock, Lavendar Mist No. 1, 1950 compare p. 420

Willem de Kooning

Woman VI1953

ABSTRACTEXPRESSIONISM

Willem de Kooning

Excavation

ABSTRACTEXPRESSIONISM

RothkoUntitled1948

MARK ROTHKOUntitled, 1968

“color-field painting”

not in text; compare p. 421, Rothko Chapel

MARK ROTHKONo. 10, 1950

“color-field painting”

"We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. . . . We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth."

Rothko

Rothko

Clyfford Still, 1957, No.1

''What you see is what you see'' – Frank Stella, 1966

Frank Stella, Wolfeboro II, 1966

“post-painterly abstraction”

Frank Stella, Raqqa II, 1970

“post-painterly abstraction”

Harran II, 1967

Joseph Albers Homage to the Square, Red Series1968

minimalism

Kenneth Noland, Thrust, 196345 x 45 in.

“post-painterly abstraction”

Andy Warhol, Orange Disaster

No. 5, 1963

POP-ART

compare p. 422

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

1987

“What is an author?”

-- Roland Barthes

Lichtenstein, RoyWhaam!1963172 x 269 cm (68 x 106 in.) (two canvasses)

POP-ART

Victor Vasarely   Hungarian, born 1908Vega-Nor, 1969Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 78 3/4"

OP-ART

a democratic form of art that everyone could understand, not just those with certain types of educational backgrounds and experiences. Op Art serves that goal well. There is no story to tell, history to know, or symbolism essential to the work’s comprehension

Johns, JasperThree Flags1958Encaustic on canvas30 7/8 x 45 1/2 x 5 in

Jasper Johns

0 through 91961

Jasper Johns, Map, 1963

Jasper Johns

Painted Bronze

CONCEPTUAL ART

Walter De MariaThe Broken Kilometer

The Broken Kilometer, 1979, located at 393 West Broadway in New York City, is composed of 500 highly polished, round, solid brass rods, each measuring two meters in length and five centimeters (two inches) in diameter. The 500 rods are placed in five parallel rows of 100 rods each. The sculpture weighs 18 3/4 tons and would measure 3,280 feet if all the elements were laid end-to-end. Each rod is placed such that the spaces between the rods increase by 5mm with each consecutive space, from front to back; the first two rods of each row are placed 80mm apart, the last two rods are placed 580 mm apart. Metal halide stadium lights illuminate the work which is 45 feet wide and 125 feet long.

Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty, 1970

textbook p. 436

Spiral Jetty

Spiral Jetty, 2003

and then one day . . .

all the isms became wasms

- Robert Hughes

Post-Modernism

Atwood quote

Everything is post these days, as if we’re all just a footnote to something earlier that was real enough to have a name of its own.

Elaine Risley, the main character in Cat’s Eye, a novel by Margaret Atwood, 1988

Ashbery quote

Attention, shoppers. From within the     inverted commas of a strambotto, seditious     whispering watermarks this time of day. Time to get

   out and, as they say, about.

From a poem, “Where Shall I Wander,” by John Ashbery, pub. 2005

Destabilizes

The idea of the artwork as an autonomous or independent object

Interrogates

The idea of art history as a narrative and as a narrative of progress

in other words . . .

CHARACTERISTICS OF POST-MODERNISM:

• QUOTATION, PASTISHE, COLLAGE

• CHALLENGES AUTHORITY OF “MASTER” NARRATIVE – “contingency”

• FOCUSES ON THE “CONSTRUCTED-NESS” OF NARRATIVE, AUTHORITY, REALITY

(“deconstruction” is not just analysis)

see p. 431

trying to fire the

canon . . .

James RosenquistVestigial Appendage, 1962Oil on canvas, 72 x 93 1/4 in.

POP-ART

James Rosenquist    American, born 1933Nomad, 1963Oil on canvas, plastic, and wood, 90 x 141"

POP-ART

James Rosenquist    Welcome to the Water Planet1987

POP-ART

James Rosenquist, Sight-seeing, 1962 POP-ART

Rauschenberg, RobertMonogram1955-9Freestanding combine42 x 64 x 64 1/2 in

p. 422

extravagant intertextuality

“ ”

Tansey, MarkDerrida Queries de Man1990Oil on canvas83 3/4 x 55 in.

Resembles a well-known illustration of Sherlock Holmes locked in a struggle with the evil Professor Moriarty

(vernacular art quotation)

Durand, AsherKindred Spirits1849Oil on canvas46 x 36 in

Hockney, DavidModel with Unfinished Self-Portrait1977Oil on canvas60 x 60 in.

Velazquez, Las

Meninas, 1656

Vermeer,The Allegory of Painting,c. 1665-70

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman

SELF-CREATION OR THE CREATION OF SELF THOURH MEDIA IMAGES? “De-centered self”

A sort of Performance art

POMO: meaning is derived not from individual images, but their relationship to each other and to mass culture & other media

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

HERSTORY

p. 440

Judy Chicago

MEDIUM?

Judy Chicago

Isabella d'Este, Renaissance noblewoman

Emily Dickenson

Mao Tse-tung

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is . . . an act of violence.”

Utzon, built 1959-1972!!!

Building as sculpture – Sydney Opera House

ARCHITECTURE

1ST field to use term (1946)

Famous text: Learning From Las Vegas

A return to ornamentation, but with quotation marks & a wink

Michael Graves

Michael Graves

U of Cincinnati

Pointless columns

“Porthole” windows

faux smokestacks

Michael Graves

Atlanta

10 Peachtree Place

compare p. 434

Michael Graves

Portland Bldg

p. 434

Michael Graves

Portland Bldg

p. 434

Frank Gehry, Disney Concert Hall

compare p. 443

Frank Gehry, Disney Concert Hall

Frank Gehry, Disney Concert Hall

Diamond Ranch High School, Morphosis

Hypo Alpe-Adria Center in Klagenfurt, Austria, MAYNE, 2002

and now the return of . . .

EVERYTHING

Still life – example artist: Janet Fish

Still life – example artist: Janet Fish

Figurative art

Pearlstein, PhilipTwo Models on a Kilim Rug with Mirror1983Oil on canvas90 x 72 in.

Portraiture

John Wulp, Sigourney, Charlotte, and Petals

Sharpe Center, Toronto

even Modernism!

AlliedWorks

Portland, OR

Carus residence, IllinoisBrininstool & Lynch

Getty MuseumLos Angeles, 1997Richard Meier, architect

A MIGHTY FORTRESS FOR MODERNISM

Getty MuseumLos Angeles, 1997Richard Meier, architect

Getty MuseumLos Angeles, 1997Richard Meier, architect

Andy GoldsworthyKnotweed Stalks Pushed into Lake BottomFebruary 20 and March 8-9, 1988Derwent Water, Cumbria© Andy Goldsworthy

Andy GoldsworthyEnds of BambooNovember 1987Kinagashima-Cho, Japan© Andy Goldsworthy

Andrew Goldsworthy

Daniel Libeskind1776’ tower

Libeskind WTC design

SUMMARY – POST WWII

MODERNISM CONTINUES – PROGRESS & MATERIALS; EACH WORK OF ART DICTATES ITS OWN TERMS [POLLOCK, abstract expressionism]

CONCEPTUAL ART – ULTIMATE CHALLENGE TO THE VERY IDEA OF ART, THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF MODERNISM? [SMITHSON Spiral Jetty]

POST-MODERNISM – QUESTION NARRATIVE! [CHICAGO The Dinner Party]

Jackson Pollock, Lavendar Mist No. 1, 1950 compare p. 420

Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty, 1970

textbook p. 436

Judy Chicago

p. 440

music summary

ORDER & CHAOS

• SURFACE CHAOS/INNER ORDER:

Rite of Spring; serialism

• SURFACE ORDER/INNER ORDER:

minimalism (Reich, Music for 18)

• SURFACE CHAOS/INNER CHAOS:

chance methods (John Cage)