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Contemporary ArtPrepared by:
Janelli Rose A. ValdezcoAndrew Abrigo
MMA 1-1
Contemporary ArtContemporary:happening, existing, living or the present period.
Art:the conscious use of skill and creative imagination.
Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art
WATCHEY
3D WATCHEY
Being an
means to
now
the of-Joseph Kosuth
Never before in history have artists experimented so freely with many media, such different styles, such a wealth and content.
IMAGES
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
The of &
is a away…
WW2
Marcel Duchamp
Fernand Leger
Josef Albers
Hans Hoffman
and others…
Arshile Gorky
Willem de Kooming
Jack Tworkov
James Brooks
Philip Guston
Stuart Davis
-Jose Clemente Orozco
“no longer look to
Europe for their
inspiration and their models.”
Many
movements have
2paintingContemporary
THE FIRSTGENERATION
ABSTRACT
EEXPRESSIONISM
is a style of painting and sculpture of the 1950s and 1960s in which artists expressionistically distorted abstract images with loose, gestural brushwork.
ABSTRACTEEXPRESSIONISM
New York:Vast and muscular
Japanese/Chinese:Gentle andcircumscribed
is characterized by:
Spontaneous executionLarge gestural brushstrokesAbstract imageryand fields of intense color
ABSTRACTEEXPRESSIONISM
Abstract expressionistPainter.
Was influenced by 19th century painter influenced by Paul Cézanne.
Arshile Gorky (1905-1948)
The Liver is the Cock’s Comb (1944)by Arshile Gorky
98 inches
72 inches
His early works were figural and expressionistic, showing influence of Henri Matisse.
He claims that paintings are derived from nature though there are no presentations of imagery can be found.
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966)
The Golden Wall(1961)by Hans Hoffman
72 1/2 inches
60 inches
Pollock’s talent is volcanic. He was known as the best Abstract Expressionists.
Accident became a prime compositional element in his painting.
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
WATCHEY
$140 millionPainting no. 5
One (Number 31, 1950)by Hans Hoffman
17 55/8 inches
8’ 10” inches
A contemporary method of painting characterized by implied motion in the brushstroke and splattered and dripped paint on the canvas.
ACTION PAINTING
WATCHEY
She was one of only few women in the mainstream of Abstract Expressionism.
Wife of Jackson Pollock.
Lee Krasner (1908-1984)
“My painting is so autobiographical, if anyone can take the trouble to read it.”
Easter Lilies (1956)by Lee Krasner
60 1/8 inches
48 1/4 inches
. He is best known for his series of paintings of women that began in 1950.
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
“De Kooning is one of the Abstract Expressionist who never completely surrendered Figurative Painting.
Two Women(1953)by Willem de Kooning
24 inches
18 7/8 inches
Later in that decade he began to paint the large floating, hazy-edged color fields for which he renowned.
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
“The large scale of these canvases absorbs the viewer in color.”
Blue, Orange, Red (1961)by Mark Rothko
81 inches
90 3/4 inches
Painting that uses visual elements and principles of design to suggest that areas of color stretch beyond the canvas to infinity. Figure and ground receive equal emphasis.
COLOR-FIELD PAINTING
Figure–ground organization is probably best known by the faces–vase drawing that Edgar Rubin described.
TRiVia
He is preeminent among those artists who chose to combine the two styles of Abstract Expressionism.
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974)
Burst series of 1957 are the most successful paintings of Adolph.
Green Turbulence (1968)by Adolph Gottlieb
157 inches
94 inches
African-American artist.
Enhanced his artistic vocabulary with the collage techniques.
Romare Bearden (1914-1988)
His artworks are scrapbook-like. (consciousness and
experience).
Prevalence of Ritual Mysteries (1964)by Romare Bearden
14 1/4 inches
11 1/4 inches
THE SECONDGENERATION
A contemporary style in which geometric forms are rendered with precision but with no distinction between foreground and background.
HARD-EDGE PAINTING
She used combination of a vibrant palette, staining technique, and above all, strong abstract image in a structurally sound composition.
Helen Frankenthaler
“She was a bridge between Pollock and what was
possible.” – Kenneth Noland.
Lorelei (1957)by Helen Frankenthaler
87 inches
70 3/4 inches
Contemporary art that adheres to Minimalist philosophy. Minimalism is a twentieh-century style of nonobjective art in which a minimal number of visual elements are arranged in a simple fashion.
MINIMAL ART
She uses Minimalist style in her painting.
Agnes Martin (1912-2004)
“When I cover the square with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square, destroys its power.”
Untitled (1989)by Agnes Martin
12 inches
12 inches
Acrylic and graphiteon canvas
Art that represents the likeness of human and other figures.
FIGURATIVE ART
She is one of the most dramatic figurative painters of the era. She took no commissions but rather handpicked her sitters from all strata of society and often painted them in the nude, or seminude.
Alice Neel (1900-1984)
Pregnant Woman (1971)by Alice Neel
60 inches
40 inches
Bacon’s personalized interpretation of history is expressionistically distorted by what must be a very raw response to the quality of contemporary life.
Francis Bacon (1902-1992)
Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (1961)by Francis Bacon
48 inches
50 7/8 inches
An art style originating in the 1960s that uses commercial and popular images and themes as its subject matter.
POP ART
A British artist, he had been influenced by Marcel Duchamp’s idea that the mission of art should be to destroy the normal meanings and functions of art.
Richard Hamilton (1902-1992)
Just What Is It Makes Today’s Homes So Different (1956)by Richard Hamilton
9 3/4 inches
10 1/4 inches
A contemporary style of painting that attaches other media, such as found objects, to the canvas.
COMBINE PAINTING
He is best known for introducing a construction referred to as the combine painting, in which stuffed animals, bottles, articles of clothing and furniture, and scraps of photographs are attached to the canvas.
Robert Rauschenberg
The Bed (1955)by Robert Rauschenberg
7 1/4 x 31 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches
Combine painting: Oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports.
Painted Bronze (1960)by Jasper Johns
5 1/2 x 8 x 4 3/4 inches
Warhol painted and printed much more than industrial products. He executed a series of portraits of public figures and he turned to portraits to political leaders.
Andy Warhol (1962)
82 1/4 inches
57 inches
Green Coca-Cola Bottles (1962)by Andy Warhol
It is the rendering of subjects with sharp, photographic precision, is firmly rooted in the long, realistic tradition in the arts.
HYPERREALISM
During the 1950s she showed figure paintings that were largely ignored, in part because of the popularity of Abstract Expressionism.
Audrey Flack (b. 1931)
World War II (Vanitas)by Audrey Flack
96 inches
96 inches
A style of art dating from the 1960s that creates the illusion of vibrations through afterimages, disorienting perspective, and the juxtaposition of contrasting colors. Also called “optical art” or optical painting.”
OPT ART OR OPTICAL ART
He experimented with the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface using linear perspective and atmospheric effects.
Victor Vasarely (1906–1997)
Orion (1956)by Victor Vasarely
6’ 10 1/2 inches
6’ 6 3/4 inches
She combines narrative, conceptual art, representation, and some abstract process painting of the sort we find in Abstract Expressionism.
Jennifer Bartlett (1989)
Spiral: An Ordinary Evening in New Haven (1989)by Jennifer Bartlett
192 inches
108 inches
Her artwork Diagonal also sets as an example of New Image Painting in bringing together representational and abstract art.
Susan Rothenberg (1975)
Diagonal (1975)by Susan Rothenberg
60 inches
40 inches
A decorative contemporary style that uses evocative signs, symbols, and patterns.
PATTERN PAINTING
Le Tour (1979)by Kim Macconnel
86 1/2 inches
87 1/2 inches
A painter, who has affirmed a belief in abstraction as a viable style, in the midst of trends that find it sterile and unreachable.
Elizabeth murray (1940)
Sail Baby (1983)by Elizabeth Murray
126 inches
135 inches
The 1st generation Abstract Expressionists developed a style that was viewed worldwide as highly original and influential. German and Italian artists, who came to be called Neo – Expressionists, detested painting “about nothing”.
NEO-EEXPRESSIONISM
Kiefer has been able to synthesize an expressionistic painterly style with strong abstract elements in a narrative form of painting that makes multivalent references to German history and culture.
Anselm kiefer (1945)
Dein Goldenes Haar, Margarethe (1981)by Anselm Kiefer
18 3/4 inches
14 inches
Eric focused on middle-class life in suburbs, including Levittown, Long Island. Fishcl’s A visit To / A Visit From / The Island shifts the locale from big-city suburbs to an island vacation setting.
Eric Fishcl (1948)
A visit / A Visit From / The Island (1983)by Eric Fischl
84 x 84 inches
He is now considered to have been one of the most talented artists of his generation as well as a symbolic casualty of the cycle of work, success, and burnout that characterized the 1980s in the United States.
Jean – Michel Basquiat (1960 – 1988)
Melting Point of Ice (1984)by Jean-Michael Baquiat
86 x 86 inches
SCLUPTURE
He executed blocky reclining figures reminiscent of the Native American art of Mexico. In 1930, Moore turned to bronze and wood and was also influenced by Picasso.
Henry Moore (1898 – 1986)
Reclining Figure, Lincoln Center (1963-1965)by Henry Moore
30 inches
16 inches
SCLUPTURE
He was a student of Hans Hofmann and painted until 1958.
He achieved renown as Pop Art Sculptor in 1960.
George Segal (1926 – 2000)
Cezanne Still Life #5 (1982)by George Segal
37 x 36 x 29 inches
Venezuelan artist, known to the world as Marisol, creates figurative assemblages from plaster, wood, fabric, paint, found objects, photographs, and other sources.
Marisol Escobar (1930)
Women and Dog (1964)by Marisol
72 x 82 x 16 inches
His Tourists is characteristic of the work of a number of contemporary sculptors in that it uses synthetic substances such as liquid polyester resin to closely approximate the visual and tactile qualities of flesh.
Duane Hanson (1925 – 1996)
Tourists (1970)by Duane Hanson
Lifesize:Polyster resin/fiberglass
Montana sculptor Deborah has been interested in horses since her childhood in California. She uses horses to create something of a symbolic self portrait.
Deborah Butterfield (1949)
Horse # 6-82(1982)by Deborah Butterfield
76 x 108 x 41 inches
Composed of: Steel, sheet
aluminum, wire and tar
An American artist, moved away from figurative sculpture in the 1940s.
He uses overall gestural quality found in Abstract Expressionist paintings.
David Smith (1906 – 1965)
Cubi Series (1982)by David Smith
H: 9’ 8’’H: 9’H: 9’ 5’’
Composed of: Stainless
steel
The Mobiles of Smith are some of the most popular examples of kinetic art in the 20th Century.
Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976)
Untitled(1972)by Alexander Calder
East building mobile
Another contemporary sculpture form is the installation, in which materials form planks of wood to pieces of string and metal are assembled to fit within specific room-sized exhibition space.
Judy Pfaff (1946)
Dragon (January-April 1981)by Judy Pfaff
Installation view
She has worked both in figural and abstract styles and is comfortable with ignoring the traditional boundary between them.
Nancy Graves (1940)
Tarot (1984)by Nancy GravesBronze with polychrome
patina and enamel
Swiss-born kinetic sculptor was an able satirist of the machine age who shares the Dadaist view of art as anti-art.
Jean Tinguely (1925–1991)
Fragment from Homage to New York (1960)by Jean Tinguely
Painted Metal
Canadian-born Jackie, like many of her contemporaries, is taken with the primal aesthetics of simple geometric forms. Her works are more likely to have a weathered organic, handmade look.
Jackie Winsor (1941)
Fragment from Homage to New York (1960)by Jean Tinguely
Wood, reinforced concrete, plaster, gold leaf,and explosive residue.
is a movement that refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to make art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary art.
FEMINIST ART
The Doll House (1972)by Miriam Schapiro with Sherry Brody
Mixed media: 84 x 40 x 41 inches
The Dinner Party (1972)by Judy Chicago
Painted porcelain and needlework
Painted porcelain and needlework
Like some women artists, she shunned painting; especially abstract painting, as historically inundated with male values.
Ana Mendieta (1948-1985)
Arbol de la Vida, no.249 (1977)by Ana Mendieta
Documentation of earth- body sculpture with artist, tree trunk, and mud, at Old Man’s Creek, Iowa City, IA.
Barbara Kruger's, in Untitled, confronts her male and female viewers with stereotypical epithets for the "dominant sex," seeming to criticize females for feeding male expectations as much as males for having them.
Barbara Kruger (1945)
We won’t play nature to your culture (1983)by Barbara Kruger
From the early 1970s onward, Snyder focused on women's issues in her work, unifying her narrative content with lush brushwork and an often dramatic palette.
Joan Snyder (1945)
Small Symphony for Women #1 (1974)by Joan Snyder
24 x 24; 24 x 72 inches
SITE –SPECIFIC WORK
Spiral Jetty, Great Sea Salt, Utah (1970)by Robert Smithson
Black rocks, salt, earth, water, and algaeL: 1500’; W:15’
The Ice Cube Project (2004)by Marco Evaristti
Red dye and sea water, Greenland coast.
Works that use a video screen or an assemblage of screens or monitors; images shown on video monitors.
VIDEO ART
Grobal Groove (1973)by Nam June Paik
Three Mountains (1976-1979)by Shigeko Kubota
The Crossing (1996)by Bill Viola
Getaway #2 (1994)by Tony Oursler
SITE –SPECIFIC WORK
Untitled (1983)by Keith Haring
Study for Payphone (2001)by Robert Lazzarni
Digital Landscape in the sunset/sunrise desert(2000) by Yael Karanek
Winchester (2002)by Jeremy Blake
Digital Venus (1996)by Lynn Hershman
A style of architecture that rejects classical model, deemphasizes ornamentation, and frequently uses strong, recently developed materials.
MODERN ARCHITECTURE
OR MODERNISM
Cape Cod-Style Houses Built By Levitt & Sons, Levittown, NYby Shigeko Kubota
Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp, France (1950-1954) by Le Corbusier
Interior, south wall, Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Hautby Le Corbusier
Habitat, Expo 67, Montreal (1967)by Moshe Safdie
Farnsworth House, Fox River, Plano, IL (1950)by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Lever House, New York (1951-1952)by Gordon Bunshaft
A contemporary style that arose as a reaction to Modernism and that returns to ornamentation drawn from Classical and historical sources.
POSTMODERNISM
A Postmodern approach to the design of buildings that disassembles and reassembles the basic elements of architecture. The focus is on the creation of forms that may appear abstract, disharmonious, and disconnected from the functions of the building. Deconstructivism challenges the view that there is one correct way to approach architecture.
DECONSTRUCTIVIST ARCHITECTURE
A style of architecture innovated by Frank Lloyd Wright early in the twentieth century and characterized by houses with low, horizontal lines that blended with their flat prairie sites, a central chimney, an open plan that allowed living space to flow together, and use of windows, doors, and decking to encourage the integration of interior space with surrounding terrain.
PRAIRIE STYLE
Sony Plaza (formerly AT&T Building), New York (1984)by Burgee Architects with Philip Johnson
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (1997)by Frank Gehry
Extension of the Berlin Museum (1989-1996)by Daniel Libeskind
Central Library, Seatte (2004)by Rem Koolhaas
Residential Tower on South Street, New York)by Santiago Calatrava
Cremaster 2 (1999)by Matthew Barney
VB43 (2000)by Vanessa Beecroft
If / Then (2001)by Ken Feingold
The Fag Show (2000)by Sarah Lucas
Still from Passage (2001)by Shirin Neshat
Angel (2000)by David Salle
Training Crawl, Lewiston, ME (Fall 2001)by William Pope.L.
Mortuary (2003-2004)by Damien Thirst
Still from Easy to Remember (2001)by Lorna Simpson
Self-Pieta (2001)by Sam Taylor-Wood
Insurrection! (2000)(Our tools Were Rudimentary. Yet We Pressed On)
by Kara Walker
CURRENT and FUTURE ARTISTS
The FUTURE is in your . . .
Please check under your
chair maybe there’s . . .