american art, 1970 to present

Art Since 1970

postmodernism: a reaction against modernist formalism, seen as elitist . Far more encompassing and accepting than the more rigid confines of modernist practice, postmodernism offers something for everyone by accommodating a wide range of styles, subjects, and formats, from traditional easel painting to installation and from abstraction to illusionism. Postmodern art often includes irony or reveals a self-conscious awareness on the part of the artist of art-making processes or the workings of the art world.

-from Gardner’s Art Through the Ages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdO9orWQ-Nk

Art Since 1970Themes & Styles:• Appropriation

(pastiche) • Multi-media works• Blurring of boundaries

between high vs. low• Self-consciousness • Deconstruction

(destabilizing meaning)• Socio-political nature• Inclusiveness &

individuality

Kehinde WileyNapoleon Leading the

Army over the Alps, 2005, oil, American

Jacques-Louis DavidNapoleon Crossing the St. BernardPass, 1801, oil, French

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them. This is my way of saying yes to us. -Kehinde Wiley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jNKBOMOTPA

Feminist Art

JUDY CHICAGO, The Dinner Party, 1979. Fig. 15-21.

CINDY SHERMAN, Untitled Film Still #35, 1979. Fig. 15-22.

Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814, oilFig.12-3

“The Gaze”

Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, oil

Site-specific ArtROBERT SMITHSON, Spiral Jetty, 1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCfm95GyZt4

Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.1981-83, fig.15-34

http://video.pbs.org/video/1237561998/

Architecture

Architecture

FRANK GEHRY, Guggenheim Bilbao Museo, 1997. Fig. 15-37.

Performance & Conceptual Art

JOSEPH Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965, fig. 15-41

New Media

Bill Viola, The Crossing1996, video/sound

Fig. 15-43http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqhaH6m9pY

Final Exam Review:Comparative Essay

• What are the individual characteristics of

each work in terms of style & subject?• How do they relate to the particular historic,

artistic and cultural contexts in which they were

made? • With what artistic movements are they

associated?• Why compare the two art works? What are their

similarities & differences?

#1.

Ancestral screen (nduen fobara)Kalabari Ijawlate 19th centuryFig. 20-1.

Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, oil

#2

MARCEL DUCHAMP, Fountain (second version), 1950 (original version produced 1917).

Fig. 14-13.

JOSEPH KOSUTH, One and Three Chairs, 1965. Fig. 15-41.

#3

JEFF KOONS, Pink Panther, 1988. Fig. 15-30.

ANDY WARHOL, Marilyn Diptych, 1962. Fig. 15-17.

#4Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981Photo/collage, fig.15-23

WILLEM DE KOONING, Woman I, 1950–1952. Fig. 15-5.