American Art History (Painting; 1940-Present)

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Horace Pippin

Mr. Prejudice

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Jacob Lawrence

Harriet Tubman

• Worked in series'
• couldn't tell stories in 1 piece

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Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Gained in Momentum

• movement north from south

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Andrew Wyeth

Christina's World

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Arshile Gorky

Garden in Sochi

• fragmented, nothing representational
  

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Jackson Pollock

Autumn Rhythm, No. 30

• abstract expressionism
  
• action painting; about motions
  

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Willem de Kooning

Woman, I

• more connection to objective reality
  

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Mark Rothko

Orange and Tan

• trying to balance expressionism and order
  

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Helen Frankenthaler

Mountains and Sea

• soak & stain method
  
• seems like color
  
• not parted ways with objective reality
  

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Barnett Newman

Vir Heroicus Sublimis

• hard-edge colorfield painting
• masculinity

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Josef Albers

Homage to the Square, "Saturated"

• wrote about color theory
  
• rapid ascent, was center of art
  

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Andy Warhol

Green Coca-Cola Bottles

• commercial art, illustration
  
• can't avoid talking about products
  

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Andy Warhol

Turquoise Marilyn

• commercial art, illustration
  
• can't avoid #brands
  

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Roy Lichenstein

Oh Jeff...I love you too..but...

• way to communicate
  
• ben-day dots
  

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Philip Pearlstein

Two Female Nudes with Red Drape

• resurgence of realism
  
• nudes, not idealized or sexualized
  

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Chuck Close

Big Self-Portrait

• photorealism
  
• not idealized
  

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Horn Players

• postmodernism
  
• neoexpressionism
  
• graffiti
  

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Barbara Kruger

We Don't Need Another Hero

• feminism
  
• captions