late 20th century art - present
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Late 20th Centuryinto the 21st Century
Contemporary / Post-Modern Art
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• Contemporary Art (Late 20th Century – Now)
• Pluralism (many different styles)
• Post-Modern Art - Combines a Variety of Styles from Past and Present
• New Mediums
• Technology
• Ephemeral Art (art that is temporary)
• Challenges the Viewer, Shocks, Surprises, Humor
• Deals with Current Issues – Society and Politics
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Super-realism
• American Art Movement in late 1960’s – 1970’s
• Extension of Pop Art (similar subjects, but different style)
• Highly detailed and realistic (sometimes called Photorealism)
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Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait, 1967 – 1968, Acrylic on Canvas (8’11” x 11’2”)
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Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait, 1967 – 1968, Acrylic on Canvas (8’11” x 11’2”)
Large Scale Portrait Paintings based on Photographs
Avoided creative compositions, flattering lighting, and facial expressions
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Comparison
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Site-specific Art / Environmental Art
• Progressive Movement developed in the 1960’s in USA
• Increased concerns about environment (pollution, litter, urban sprawl)
• Challenges traditional assumptions about art
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence
(California, USA), synthetic fabric,
cable, steel, 1972 -1976
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence (California, USA), Pink woven synthetic fabric, 1972 - 1976
5.5 meters high
40 Kilometer long nylon fence
Environmental art project
Artists claim that the art has no meaning. Their goal is to create something beautiful and to see the landscape in a new way.
Money raised by selling their preliminary drawings
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Black rock, salt crystals, earth, red water (Utah, USA)
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Black rock, salt crystals, earth, red water (Utah, USA)
Manipulated the earth the create an environmental sculpture
“enduring power of nature”
Inspired by the location and the molecular structure of salt crystals that coat the rocks
Spiral Jetty under water
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Andy GoldsworthyKnotweed StalksLand Art (sticks in water)1998
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Andy GoldsworthyKnotweed Stalks(Land Art - sticks in water)1998
- Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist
- Artist only uses natural materials (leaves, flowers, sticks, ice, rocks, etc.)
- Photography plays an important role in the work because the art is temporary
- Artist is the subject of a documentary film, Rivers and Tides, 2001
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Post-Pop
• Artists still influenced by Pop Art from the 1960’s
• Consumerism and Popular culture
• Humor
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Jeff-Koons, Pink Panther, 1988, Porcelain sculpture
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Jeff-Koons, Pink Panther, 1988, Porcelain sculpture
Magazine centerfold with well-known cartoon character
Commercialism / Consumerism
Kitsch (bad taste)
“everything wrong with contemporary American society”
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Keith Haring, Untitled, 1985, Mixed Media on Canvas
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Keith Haring, Untitled, 1985, Mixed Media on Canvas
Keith Haring started by drawing in NY Subways (related to Grafitti art / Street Art)
Keith Haring friends with Andy Warhol
East-Village New York style
Art for “the people”
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Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, Installation (balloons and vinyl), 2011
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Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, Installation (balloons and vinyl), 2011
Japanese avant-garde artist (and writer) who brings together pop art, minimalism, feminism, surrealism, abstract expressionism
Mediums: sculpture, painting, film, fashion, performance art, fiction, installation (art in a space that creates an environment)
Lived in New York in 1960s where she met Andy Warhol (Now lives in Tokyo)
In 2008, her art sold for a record 5.1 million US dollars (highest price ever for a woman artist)
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Yayoi Kusama
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Art and Society
• Art as a social tool used to help change society
• Social and Political issues
• Art by and for minorities (issues of gender, race, sexuality)
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35, 1979, Black-and-white photograph
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35, 1979, Black-and-white photograph
Sherman plays different roles in her photographs (dressed in costume) -
Not a Self-Portrait
Feminism - Questions how women have been portrayed in movies, photography, art
Photography shows the shutter release cable on the floor (artist took her own photograph)
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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am),
1987, Photographic silkscreen on vinyl
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Barbara Kruger, Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am), 1987, Photographic silkscreen on vinyl
Look of Advertising
Challenges Advertising (Kruger worked as a graphic designer before becoming an artist)
Deceptiveness of Media’s messages
“I think, therefore I am” - Philosophical statement by Descartes
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Coca-Cola VaseAi WeiweiPainted Neolithic vase (5000BC)2007
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Coca-Cola Vase, Ai WeiweiPainted Neolithic vase (5000BC)2007
- Critical of the effects of Capitalism in China
- Highly and openly critical of the Chinese government’s stance on democracy and human rights
- Reference to Pop Art (Warhol)
- Ai Weiwei creates sculpture, installation art, sculpture, photography, and film, and soon to release heavy metal rock music album
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Ai Weiwei dropping a Han Dynasty urn (2000 Year old vase), Performance
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Never SorryDocumentary Film
about Ai Weiwei2012
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Performance Art
• Avant-garde art form started in 1960’s
• Action as an artform
• Multimedia
• New way to express ideas / concepts
• Ephemeral art form (temporary, element of time)
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Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965, Performance art
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Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965, Performance art
Sacred ritual
“the condition of modern humanity”
Head coated with honey and covered with gold leaf (spiritual power)
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Laurie Anderson, O Superman, 1985, Performance Art
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Laurie Anderson, O Superman, 1985, Performance Art
Anderson wrote music and lyrics
Experimentation with sound (electric violin and synthesized voice)
Feminist art combining elements of pop art, pop music, World music, dada
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Technology and Art
• Video, Digital Imagery
• Artists started experimenting with video in 1960’s
• Looking at an image in a video monitor / screen (related to Renaissance idea of looking through a frame into a picture)
• Element of time
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Jenny Holzer, Protect Me From What I Want, 1988, LED Electronic Signboard (Times Square, New York City)
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Jenny Holzer, Protect Me From What I Want, 1988, LED Electronic Signboard (Times Square, New York City)
Social Consciousness
Uses advertising format to deliver messages
Art in Public Spaces
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Cao FeiCOSplayers Video Still2004
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Cao Fei, COSplayers, Video Still, 2004
Chinese Artist (Guangzhou, China)
Post Modernism / Mixture of Cultures and Influences
Discrepancy between reality and dreams
Focus on the individual’s longings and the way they imagine themselves
Discontentment and disillusionment of China’s younger generation