Exam 1 Contemporary Art History

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James Rosenquist, F-111,1965

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Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, 1956

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Claes Oldenburg, The Street, 1960

Judson Gallery in the basement of Judson Memorial Church

Messy grunge art

Influences of Franics Bacon

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Claes Oldenburg, The Store,1961

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Claes Oldenburg, Floor Cake,1962 actually made by cody to appease susan 2018

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Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1943

Art of this century

Autographic-puts one signature in an art piece

Pollock largest work

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Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist),1950

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Willem de Kooning, Women 1, 1950-52

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Barnett Newman,Onement 1, 1948

Sublime: experience of the beauty of wonder and curiosity.

Influences from Critique of Judgement, 1710; idea of creation and that it is something.

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Barnett Newman, The Stations of the Cross,1966

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Mark Rothko,Untitled, 1949

Abstract Expressionism:unique artistic endeavors to the individual.

Color Field Painting

Human emotions and drama

Univeral understanding with the use of color

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Mark Rothko, interior of the Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX, 1965-66

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Adolph Gottlieb, Orb from the Bursts Series, 1964

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Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952

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Alberto Giacometti, The City Square,1948-49

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Francis Bacon, Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X,1953

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Jean Dubuffet , Childbirth,1944

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Jean Dubuffet, Le Metafisyx, 1950

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Yves Klein, Untitled,1959

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Yves Klein,Le Vide(The Void), Galerie Iris Clert, Paris,1958

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Yves Klein, Anthropometrie Dr I'Epoque Bleue,1960

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Yves Klein, Ritual for the Relinquishing of Immaterial Zones of Pictorial Sensibility,1959

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Arman, Le Plein (Fullness), Galerie Iris Clert , Paris, 1960

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Piero Manzoni, Merda d'artista, 1961

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Robert Raushenberg, Erased Dr Kooning Drawing, 1953

Had asked Kooning for a drawing for his latest art piece

Could not completely erase drawing; worked on erasing it for 2 months

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Robert Rauschenberg,Bed,1955

Proto-pop- beginning stages towards pop art.

Fabric materials w/ paint

Collage

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Robert Rauschenberg, Factum l and Factum II,1957

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Jasper Johns, Flag,1955

"How do we paint things that aren't paintings?"

Pigment in wax

Is it a flag or a painting?

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Jasper Johns,False Start,1959

Color paint on colored words of paint; on top of the wrong paint colors

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Allan Kaprow,Fluids,1967

"Happening piece"- a present moment event that is not scripted and organically flows.

Workers worked in hot temperatures while making the ice block house.

Had multiple "ice houses" built.

No permanent structure of the piece (only photos)

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Simone Forti, Huddle,1961

Simone started as an abstract expressionist painter.

Later moved too "movement sculpture".

Took dance classes that influence her art

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Black Mountain College, Black Mountain,NC, 1933-1958

Founded by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreir, Fredrick Georgia, and Ralph Lounsbury

Open campus for fine arts,music,liberal arts,etc

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Stan Brakhage, Mothlight,1963 (Film)

Silent film

Tape on clear film

A film of stop motion objects (plants & insect parts).

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Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg, Minutae, 1954

Dancing and movement among the art piece.

Collage piece

Dancing + art

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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych,1962

Time element (progression)

Fading (dark to light)

Symbolic of celebrity lifestyle (fading persona)

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Andy Warhol, Disaster/Electric Chair,1966

Deep red color w/dark contrast

Different medium of art for Warhol

Dark themes within newspaper stories

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Edward Ruscha,Standard Station,1966

Printmarker & Graphic Designer

Commerical art

Travel along route 66 and took photos of all the gas stations and designed them.

Typegraphy elements

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Edward Keinholz,Roxys,1960-61

Gallery showing at the Ferus Gallery

Recreation of 1940s brothels in Vegas.

Questioning the treatment of sex workers in those brothels.

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Frank Stella, Die Fahne Hoch,1959

Colorless grid

Abstraction

Influenced by Jasper John

Repetition of line & shape

*Die Fahne Hoch- The Flag on High (A Nazi party saying)

*Titles can add a new perspective on the piece.

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Agnes Martin, Night Sea, 1963

Deep Blue color

Unfinished edge; square grid

Rectangles made with canyon and gold leaf lines.