Depression. 1930`s Artists: Dorothea Lange (Migrant Mother), Jacob

Depression. 1930’s
Artists: Dorothea Lange (Migrant Mother), Jacob Lawrence (The
Migration of the Negro)
Artwork as a form of documentation; Lange’s work sponsored by
the Resettlement Admin.
1930’s through 1940’s
•American artists focusing on the realities of American life during
the Depression and WWII
•reaction AGAINST ___MODERNISM___, follows
____REALISM_____ values
1910-on
•Artists: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco
•Subject matter included indigenous people and culture, Mexican
culture before European and Spanish influence, corresponded with
the Mexican Revolution
1929-35
1940’s
Artists: Gestural: Gorky, Jackson Pollock (Lavender Mist), William de
Kooning (Woman Series)
Chromatic: Barnett Newman (Vir Heroicus Sublimis), Mark Rothko
•Gestural Abstraction: energetically applied pigment, expresses frenzied
motion, emotions, conflict and frustrations
•Chromatic Abstraction: focus on color’s emotional expression, more calm
and quiet
•1st major AVANT GARDE movement in America
•1960’s
•Artists: Ellsworth Kelly (Red Blue Green), Frank Stella Helen Frankenthaler
(The Bay)
•Main difference between post-painterly and abstract expressionism: Postpainterly abstraction DOES NOT focus emotional meanings, only purity in
art and the process of painting
•Color-field Painting: emphasizes the BASIC properties of painting (pigment
on surface), often created by simply pouring pigment on a canvas or
surface; purity in painting
•1960’s
•Artists: Tony Smith, Donald Judd
(Untitled, Plexiglass boxes on wall)
•Emphasis on creating sculpture; ALL
__ABSTRACTION__, NO expressionism;
purity of form
•1960’s
•Artists: Ellsworth Kelly (Red Blue Green), Frank Stella Helen Frankenthaler
(The Bay)
•Main difference between post-painterly and abstract expressionism: Postpainterly abstraction DOES NOT focus emotional meanings, only purity in
art and the process of painting
•Color-field Painting: emphasizes the BASIC properties of painting (pigment
on surface), often created by simply pouring pigment on a canvas or
surface; purity in painting
late 1960’s and 1970’s
•Artists: Audrey Flack (Marilyn), Chuck Close (Big SelfPortrait), Duane Hanson (life-size people)
•Subject matter influenced by _POP ART________
•Reproductions created in minute detail
1960’s and 1970’s
•Artists: Robert Smithson (Spiral Jetty), Christo and JeanneClaude (Surrounded Islands)
•Innovative: __takes art beyond the museum setting, involves
the viewer, redefines what is art, incorporates new materials
ROBERT SMITHSON, Spiral Jetty, 1970.
Black rock, salt crystals, earth, red water (algae) at
Great Salt Lake, Utah. 1,500’ x 15’ x 3 1/2’.
1950’s on
•Architects: Frank Lloyd Wright (Guggenheim, in NYC), Le Corbusier (Chapelle
de Notre Dame du Haut), Eero Saarinen (Trans World Terminal, JFK airport),
Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson (Seagram Building, NYC)
•Movement towards simplicity in either geometric or organic shapes (like
painting); height represents power, authority, status
•Modern Skyscraper: “glass box”, combination of masonry, glass, steel=
height, simplistic
•The common characteristics of the International Style include: a radical
simplification of form, a rejection of ornament, and adoption of glass, steel
and concrete as preferred materials. Further, the transparency of buildings,
construction (called the honest expression of structure), and acceptance of
industrialized mass-production techniques contributed to the International
Style's design philosophy; developed in 1920’s and 30’s, (think Le Corbusier’s
Villa Savoye, white home, lifted off ground, geometric and organic).
Le Corbusier (Chapelle de Notre Dame du Haut)
Mies van der Rohe and
Philip Johnson,
Seagram Building, NY,
1956-58
Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal, JFK
Airport, New York
1970’s and 1980’s
•Architects: John Burgee, Michael Graves (Portland Building),
Phillip Johnson (AT&T Building, NYC), Richard Rogers and Renzo
Piano (Pompidou Center, Paris)
•Reaction AGAINST __MODERNISM’S____________ impersonal,
rigid corporate buildings
•Combined elements of past architectural vocabulary (pediment,
columns, capitals, arcade, colonnade, etc.
Johnson, AT&T hdqtrs, NY, 1979-84;
(Chippendale highboy, 1775, below)
1970’s on, Mostly Late 20th Century
•Architects: Gunter Behnisch, Frank Ghery (Disney Concert Hall)
•Meant to disorient the viewer, disrupt the conventional categories of
architecture
•Focus on asymmetry, unconformity, irregularity
Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA
•Art created by minority groups
•Art explores racial prejudice and stereotypes
•Influenced by Civil Rights movements, Feminist
movements, politics, etc
Nam June Paik
“Pre-Bell-Man”, statue in front of the 'Museum
für Kommunikation', Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
Ana Mendieta
Judy Chicago
Barbara Kruger
Earth Body Sculpture and Performance,
1972-1985, Ana Mendieta

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