modern art ashcan school, regionalism, abstract expressionism, and pop art
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Modern Art
• Defining modernism: modern refers to a period dating roughly from the 1860s through 1970 . Modernism was not one movement, but rather a multiplicity of ‘isms’.
• We are focusing on works post 1900.
Abstract ExpressionismPost WW II
• Abstract expressionism: originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act (e.g., action painting).
• The emphasis is on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation. What does it feel like.
• New York replaced Paris as the center of the artistic world.
Jackson Pollock“You don’t look at a rose and ask what it means”
Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950
Lavender Mist
• It looks like an aerial photograph of a city, but it is a city that has somehow been blasted . . . It also looks like astronomical photographs of nebulae and galaxies . . . while at the same time close up details of this and other paintings resemble microscopic photos of molecular structures.
Jackson Pollock
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-WQBcYQ
Summertime
Autumn Rhythm Number 1, 1950
Full Fathom Five, 1947
Eyes in the Heat, 1946"This is not art--it's a joke in bad taste." --Reynolds News headline, 1959
Georgia O’Keefe
Radiator Building, Night, New York
1926 - Yellow Calla
1930 - White Camelia
1927 - Red Poppy
1931 - Red, White, and Blue
1929 - Black Cross, New Mexico
1965 - Sky Above Clouds IV
Edward Hopper'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.'
Nighthawks
Automat
New York Movie 1939
Rooms By the Sea
Pop Art
• "The term first appeared in Britain during the 1950s and referred to the interest of a number of artists in the images of mass media, advertising, comics and consumer products.
• Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art.
The Big Guns of Pop Art
Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein
Andy WarholTurquoise Marilyn 1962
Mickey Mouse 1981
Campbell's Soup Can 1964
Whaam! 1963
Roy LichtensteinDrowning Girl 1963