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Exploring Visual Arts in the Information Age: From Pop Art to Environmental Art

This overview delves into the evolution of visual arts throughout the Information Age, highlighting diverse styles and techniques such as Pop Art, Minimalism, and Environmental Art. Key artists like Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein are examined alongside movements like Photorealism and Social Conscience Art, which engage with pressing societal issues. Performance art and video art are also explored, underscoring how media and technology have transformed visual expression since the 1960s, shaping how audiences perceive and interact with art.

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Exploring Visual Arts in the Information Age: From Pop Art to Environmental Art

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  1. Image & Sound in the Information Age

  2. Visual Arts • Diverse styles and techniques • Mass Media and Technology for images and material • Mixed Media, Performance and Environmental Art

  3. Pop Art • Coined in 1950 • Silkscreen, airbrush, & mass production

  4. Claes Oldenburg (b.1929)

  5. Oldenburg, Soft Toilet, 1966, Pop Art

  6. Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

  7. Lichtenstein, Torpedo…Los!, 1963, Pop Art

  8. Assemblage

  9. Robert Rauschenberg (b.1925)

  10. Rauschenberg, Buffalo II, 1964, Pop Art

  11. Geometric Abstraction • Not as ironic • Non-objective • Definition

  12. Stella, Tahkt-i-Sulayman I, 1967, Geometric Abstraction

  13. Op Art • European based art • How you see determines what you see.

  14. Judd, Untitled, 1967, Minimalism

  15. Minimalism • Definition • What new elements available?

  16. Photorealism • 1970s • Emphasizes elements that are like a photograph • Also called new realism, or hyperrealism.

  17. Estes, Helene’s Florist, 1971, Photorealism

  18. Close, Big Self-Portrait, 1968, Photorealism

  19. Hanson, Tourists, 1970, Photorealism

  20. Social Conscience Art • Self conscious activist role for artist • Draws attention to various issues • Ecology • Drug-use • Terrorism • Decay of Urban Life • Morals

  21. Kienholz, The State Hospital, 1964-1966, Social Conscience Art

  22. Abakanowicz, Crowd 1, 1986-7, Social Conscience Art

  23. Total Art • Process & conception • Form of communal ritual that involves a planned performance • Performance Art or Happenings

  24. Klein, Anthorpometry ANT 49, 1960, Performance Art

  25. Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Environmental Art

  26. Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, 1972-6, Environmental Art

  27. Overview

  28. Video Art • Media and its message • Beginnings in 1960s under Nam June Paik • Sound and Image combined

  29. Viola, Stations, 1994, Video Art

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