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Girl With Mandolin


Picasso


France


1940


Guernica


Picasso


Spain


1937

Painting


Wols


made by German in France


1946

Hostages


Jean Fautrier


French


1943-1945

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion


Francis Bacon


English


1944

Moon Woman Cuts the Circle


Jackson Pollock


American


1943

No. 3/No. 13


Mark Rothko


American


1949

No. 1


Jackson Pollock


American


1948

Jackson Pollock Film


Hans Namuth


American


1950

Attic


Willem de Kooning


American


1949

Erased de Kooning


Robert Rauschenberg


American


1953

Factum I and Factum II


Robert Rauschenberg


American


1957

White Paintings


Robert Rauschenberg


American


1951-2

Charlene


Robert Rauschenberg


American


1954

Flag


Jasper Johns


American


1955

Battle of the Bouvines


Georges Mathieu


French


1955

Shooting Painting: American Embassy


Niki de Saint Phalle


Fench


1961

Six Holes


Saburo Murakami


Japanese


1955

18 Happenings in 6 Parts


Allan Kaprow


American


1959

American Moon


Robert Whitman


American


1960

"Blue Period" Exhibition in Milan


Yves Klein


French


1957

Leap into the Void Newspaper


Yves Klein


French


1960

Merde d'Artistia


Piero Manzoni


Italian


1961

Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?


Richard Hamilton


British


1956

This is Tomorrow Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery


Smithsons and Nigel Henderson


British 1956

The Store


Claes Oldenburg


American 1961

Superman


Andy Warhol


American


1961

32 Soup Cans


Andy Warhol


American


1962

Cubism

geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.


job of painting is to break it apart.


ex: Picasso's "Girl with Mandolin"

Dada

challenging the status quo.


represents chaos.


layering of images


ex: Hannah Hoch's "Cut with a Kitchen Knife Through the First Weimar Beer-Belly"

Surrealism

release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.


avant-garde.


ex: Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory"

Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art)

term adopted by the Nazi regime in Germany to describe virtually all modern art. Such art was banned on the grounds that it was un-German.

Abstract Expressionism

does not share a certain style.


shares a same set of concerns.


each artist has a different approach.


New York 1943-1952

Carl Jung

the collective unconscious - refers to structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species.

Archetype

Carl Jung believed that universal, mythic characters—archetypes—reside within the collective unconscious of people the world over.

Impasto

laying on paint or pigment thickly so that it stands out from a surface.


paint is elevated from surface.

Tenth Street Touch

artists had their galleries at tenth street in New York City. those who tried to mimic them (especially de Kooning) had the "tenth street touch"

Clement Greenberg

believes in achieving flatness. the meaning of modern art is to get a greater flatness.

Harold Rosenberg

believes that the artist is the gladiator and you must surrender to the painting. this is called action painting. modern art is truly based on the method you paint (action painting)

John Cage

musician.


sonatas and interludes for prepared piano.


tested with different types of musical objects and used alien materials.


ex: 4'33" - silent for that amount of time

Combine

partially a sculpture and partially a painting.


combines three dimensional objects from the outside world onto a flat surface.

Index

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Artnews

magazine for abstract expressionism in the 1950s.


featured works of Georges Mathieu.

Nouveau Realisme

"The New Realism"

movement in France where French artists wanted to incorporate parts of Abstract Expressionism, but also parts of their past culture.


ex: Niki de Saint Phalle, Georges Mathieu

Kinetic Sculpture

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three-dimensional sculptures and figures such as mobiles that move naturally or are machine operated.


have moving parts.


ex: Jean Tinguely

Gutai

Japanese exhibits and movements.


radical response to post war.


ex: Kazoo Shiragh, Atsuko Tanaka

Meta-matics

Jean Tinguely's kinetic works.


elements rotate with different, incommensurable speeds.

Happenings

performances (no objects).


late 50s early 60s.


downtown New York


inspired by Pollock.


ex: John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Jim Dine, Robert Whitman

Monochrome

art that is a canvas of a single color.


ex: Kazimir Malevich, Yves Klein

Independent Group

met at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, England, from 1952 to 1955. The IG consisted of painters, sculptors, architects, writers and critics who wanted to challenge prevailing modernist approaches to culture.


ex: Alison and Peter Smithson, Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton

British Pop

early 50s to mid 60s.


art movement fantasizing abundance in England that they did not have

Bunk

Eduardo Paolozzi


Epidiascope, projects opaque materal



American Pop

movement in the 1950s that ses the imagery, styles, and themes of advertising, mass media, and popular culture.


ex: Claes Oldenburg, Lee Lozano, Vija Clemens, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein

Lee Lozano

2 untitled works in 1962 that displayed giant paintings of people engaged in anxiety (plucking an eyebrow, popping a pimple)

Appropriation

no signature.


the brand "Campbell's" is signature-like because of cursive font and family name