Terminology:
Modern
1850-1940/early 50s
Modernism
Larger historical scale
series of movements and practices falling under modern art
Avant-garde
"Front Gaurd" (military term)
Social reform, push norm, challenge mainstreem
Assisted Ready made: Marcel Duchamp: Fountain
Dada falls under avant'garde?
L.H.O.O.Q. : Altered Postcard adding letters and translation "LOOK"
stands for " She has a hot ass"
Contemporary Art
Post Modern
Post Modernism
How can we make sense of these terms?
Can they be used interchangeably or do the mean different things?
Authorship: ideas, recognition, orginialit, outside box, craftsmanship (astetcs), signature, recognizable style, traditional modes of authorship (craftsmanship and recognizable style)
Ben Lewis: Film Maker of Cattelan Video
Cattelon: pushes boundries, challenges expectations of cont. artitst, performance, many medias, commission other people to do work
Sherrie Lavine: Fountains: 1991
Manet: Luncheon on the Greass: 1863
Maurizio Cattelan: A Perfect Day: 1999
conceptual
evolution of performance piece
moral reponsibilites, as viewer/artist?
David Smith: Cubi Series: 1963
Warhol: 210 Coca Cola Bottles: 1962
Miriam Schapiro: Fan of Spring: 1970
Joseph Kosuth: One and Three Chairs: 1965
Bill Viola: Reflecting Pool: 1977-78 (Video)
Gorilla Girls: #9
Critique the art world, market, meuseums, etc
James Luna: Half Indian Half Mexican: 1990
Cindy Sherman: Untitled: 1972
Untitled 119: 1983
R. Mutt: Fountain: 1917
Submitted to Society of Independent Artist: New York: 1917
Subsequently the subject of "The Richard Mutt Case" requested Alfred Stieglitz for photograph
Advant-Gard (No fixed time)
Postmodernism: 1960s
dont always have to have a point of refrence, synical, saterical, blown up out of proportion
Marcel Duchamp: Nude Descending Staircase: 1912
stop action referes to movement
Dada
Rrose Selavy: Alt (gender studies)
Word plays and homophonic phrases
The Blindman: New York based publication
Fountain: no rules for show, grounds for refusing fountain
Bycycle Wheel?
Boite en Valise 1936
Man Ray: The Gift
Mortan Schamberg: God
Relationalism Relational Aestetics 1990s (Video)
Carsten Holler: Flashing Lights
Vaness Beecroff
Philleppe Perreno: Lamp?
Elmgreen and Dragset: Phone Home: 2003
Tilted Wall
How Are You Today
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Mark Rothco: Orange, Red, Red
Why abstract expressionism?
American art at the phillips collection: phillipscollection.org/research/americanart
No object: Subject, color, layering creating forms psychological intent
Scale: wants to be intimate/human, large scale in the painting wants emotions to spill out and have audience be apart of it
Barnett newman: just because no object doesnt mean there is no subject
zips (strips): ment to create complexity
Newman vs. Rothco
Newman: to clean to be human, almost triptic (heaven, hell, middle ground), dark and light, zips, philosophical represntation, masking process
Rothco: porus, untreated canvas (see event of painting), more enveloped
Hans Hoffman: The Gate (push and pull technique)
Pollock
no place for eye to land, intrique, following lines, no calm or peace
DeKooning: Woman I: 1950-52
Newmann: Pure Idea?
Think about issues in America and Europe
Post War Art
David Smith
bolton landing studio 1962
Metal for Dishonor Propaganda for War
exhibit of these in 1941 at Willard Gallery
"... the show was enthusiastically received- never sold a one."
wit and timeliness
David Smith: Royal Bird: 1947-48
Hudson River Landscape: 1951
Voltri-Bolton X: 1962 (6' high: human scale interat on physical level)
Cubi Series: 1963 (9' high)
Cubi XII: 1963
where linked to abstract expression: non-objectivity, spacial alignment (higherarchy) burnishing (texture)
Post Painterly Abstraction (2nd generation)
so much of an impact that AbEx continues on
Joan Michell: Untitled
paint and process, paintingowu.wordpress.com
shift from white canvas (New York) to more color (France)
Helen Frankenthaler: Mountains and Sea
unprimed canvas, dramatic, staining process pigment, takes over ans line over to create structure
Morris Louis: Delet Kaf: 1958
pigment flow, lines, sensation represented, multi-sensory experiances in visual form
memory, experiances: vague graydations
Franz Kline: untitled
untitled to cut off expectation
Figurative Revival: Post-war Europe
Lucian Freud: Self Portrait
Self Portrait with Mirror
Naked Girl: 1966
physical gesture and expression can be repeated regardless of time/place/age
The Artists Mother Resting: 1975-76
Giacometti: The Balance at 4 am
The City Square: 1948-49
Existentialism
Alberto Giacometti: Walking Man: 1957
Regarding post-war: what is your rowl now, how can we allow this
Idea of the individual
How different between Boccioni and Rodin
more emotion, frail, reality, vunerability, hardship, pushing through, feet: choice and weight of it, bear choic of what is right and wrong, one foot in front of th other, taking responsibility, I will stand- still momentum, weight of the feet: brining heavy weighed down, fragility of life
Art Brut
Jean Dubuffet: Childbirth: 1944
more away from all previous art astetic, goes raw, naieve, childrens art, mental illness and children, authentic, free rules of high culture
Butterfly: assemblage painting
The Squinter
Business Prospers
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