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Modern Art

Modern Art. Defining modernism: modern refers to a period dating roughly from the 1860s through 1970 . Modernism was not one movement, but rather a multiplicity of ‘isms’. We are focusing on works post 1900. Abstract Expressionism Post WW II.

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Modern Art

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  1. Modern Art • Defining modernism: modern refers to a period dating roughly from the 1860s through 1970 . Modernism was not one movement, but rather a multiplicity of ‘isms’. • We are focusing on works post 1900.

  2. Abstract ExpressionismPost WW II • Abstract expressionism: originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act (e.g., action painting). • The emphasis is on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation. What does it feel like. • New York replaced Paris as the center of the artistic world.

  3. Jackson Pollock“You don’t look at a rose and ask what it means”

  4. Lavender Mist: Number 1, 1950

  5. Lavender Mist • It looks like an aerial photograph of a city, but it is a city that has somehow been blasted . . . It also looks like astronomical photographs of nebulae and galaxies . . . while at the same time close up details of this and other paintings resemble microscopic photos of molecular structures.

  6. Jackson Pollock • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-WQBcYQ

  7. Summertime

  8. Autumn Rhythm Number 1, 1950

  9. Full Fathom Five, 1947

  10. Eyes in the Heat, 1946"This is not art--it's a joke in bad taste." --Reynolds News headline, 1959

  11. Georgia O’Keefe

  12. Radiator Building, Night, New York

  13. 1926 - Yellow Calla

  14. 1930 - White Camelia

  15. 1927 - Red Poppy

  16. 1931 - Red, White, and Blue

  17. 1929 - Black Cross, New Mexico

  18. 1965 - Sky Above Clouds IV

  19. Edward Hopper'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.'

  20. Nighthawks

  21. Automat

  22. New York Movie 1939

  23. Rooms By the Sea

  24. Pop Art • "The term first appeared in Britain during the 1950s and referred to the interest of a number of artists in the images of mass media, advertising, comics and consumer products. • Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art.

  25. The Big Guns of Pop Art Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein

  26. Andy WarholTurquoise Marilyn 1962

  27. Mickey Mouse 1981

  28. Campbell's Soup Can 1964

  29. Whaam! 1963

  30. Roy LichtensteinDrowning Girl 1963

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