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palimpsests, graffiti, T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland : “fragments I have shorn against my ruin”

Lucio Fontana , (Italian, 1989-1968) Spatial Concept, Expectations , 1959 water-based paint on canvas, 49 5/8 x 98 3/4 inches.

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palimpsests, graffiti, T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland : “fragments I have shorn against my ruin”

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  1. Lucio Fontana, (Italian, 1989-1968) Spatial Concept, Expectations, 1959water-based paint on canvas, 49 5/8 x 98 3/4 inches

  2. Cy Twombly (US, b.1928) (left) Leda and the Swan, Rome (artist’s home since 1957) 1962, oil, pencil, and crayon on canvas, 6' 3" x 6' 6 3/4“ MoMA NYC (right) Untitled, Rome, 1960; oil, pencil and oil stick canvas palimpsests, graffiti, T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland: “fragments I have shorn against my ruin”

  3. Helen Frankenthaler (American b. 1928), Mountains and Sea, 1952, oil on canvas, 7’2” x 9’9”COLOR FIELD / GREENBERGIAN FORMALISM (late “Modernist” painting)

  4. Helen Frankenthaler in 1950 on seeing Pollock's paintings, Autumn Rhythm and Lavender Mist:It was as if I suddenly went to a foreign country and didn't know the language, but had read enough, and had a passionate interest, and was eager to live there. I wanted to live in this land. I had to live there, and master the language." Photograph: Jackson Pollock (far left) with Lee Krasner (far right), Clement Greenberg, unidentified child, and Helen Frankenthaler at the beach / unidentified photographer, ca. 1952.

  5. Frankenthaler, Magic Carpet, 1964, 96 X 68 inches, acrylic on canvas

  6. Morris Louis (American, 1912-1962), Tet, 1958, synthetic polymer on canvas, 8 x 13ft

  7. Jules Olitski (Ukrainian-born American, 1922-2007) (right), Draky 1966, and (left) Comprehensive Dream, both are 120 x 92 inches, acrylic on canvas. Greenbergian Formalism – Color Field – Post-Painterly Abstraction

  8. Kenneth Noland (American, b.1924) Turnsole, 1961, Synthetic polymer paint on unprimed canvas, 7' 10 1/8" x 7' 10 1/8"

  9. Josef Albers (Germany,1888 - US,1976) from series, Homage to the Square: (top right) Ascending 1953; and (lower right) Atuned, 1958, both are oil on masonite.Émigré Bauhaus master, influential teacher at Black Mountain College and Yale University Albers’ 1963 Interaction of Color, a pedagogical book still in print and much used http://www.laurentianum.de/ldalbe03.gif

  10. Page from Albers’ Interaction of Color, Yale university pedagogical book.

  11. Grace Hartigan (American, b. 1922), (left) Billboard, 1957,o/c; (right) Chinatown, 1956, o/c, 42 x 52”

  12. (left, at table) Frank O’Hara, Larry Rivers, Grace Hartigan(and David Smith standing at far left) at the Five Spot, NYC 1957(center) Larry Rivers (American 1923-2002), Portrait of Frank O’Hara, 1954. o/c, 97"/ 53” (right) Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac, David Amram, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso“New York School” poets and Beat poets

  13. Alex Katz, Ada (in Black Sweater), 1957, oil on masonite, 24 x 18in

  14. Alex Katz (US, b. 1927) Black and Brown Blouse, 1976 and installation view of 1987 exhibition

  15. Philip Pearlstein (USA, b. 1927) Female Model on Eames Stool, 1978

  16. Pearlstein, Female Model on Oriental Rug with Mirror, 1968

  17. Lucian Freud, (British, b. Berlin 1922), Interior in Paddington, 1951, o/c, 60” x 45”

  18. Freud, Girl With a White Dog, 1951-52; o/c, 30 x 40”; Tate Gallery, London“I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.”

  19. Freud, Naked Girl Asleep, 1968, o/c, 22 x 22in (right) Man Posing, ink on paper, 1984

  20. Freud, Reflection (Self-Portrait),1985, Oil on canvas, 22 x 21 in(right) Sigmund Freud (grandfather)

  21. Lucian Freud, Naked Man; Back View, 1992-1992

  22. Clyfford Still (US, 1904-1980), 1951(right) Mark Rothko,1952Instructors at the California School of Fine Art (now San Francisco Art Institute) in the late ‘fortiesAbstract Expressionist influence on Bay Area Figure painters:David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn

  23. David Park (US, 1911-1960) , (left) Seated Man in a T-Shirt, 1958, SFMoMA(right) Art Nature & Civilization, 1934, WPA Mural, San Francisco, Hayes Valley (below right) ThreeViolinists and Dancers, 1935-37Bay Area Figurative Expressionism and Social Realism

  24. David Park, Torso (detail, right) 1959, SFMoMa"David was keen about Abstract Expressionism as long as it had the immediacy and tangibility and goopy sensuous arrangement of forms, but when it got into the very serious 'views of the cosmos' he didn't go along with that." (Elmer Bischoff)

  25. Richard Diebenkorn, (US, 1922-1993) ,Coffee, 1958, o/c(right) Woman in Profile, 1958, o/cBay Area Figuration

  26. Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park No. 54, 1972; (right) Berkeley #23, 1955Both oil on canvas, Collection SFMOMA

  27. Elmer Bischoff (US, 1916 -1991),Two Figures on the Seashore, 1957, o/c(right) Orange Sweater, 1955

  28. Joan Brown (US, 1938-1990), Bay Area Figuration, student of Elmer Bischoff(left) Wolf in Studio, enamel on masonite, 90 x 48”, 1972 (Crocker collection)(right) Self With Fish, 1970

  29. Bay Area Funk (Beat) and Figuration overlapped. Joan Brown was part of both movements. Fur Rat, 1962, wood, chicken wire, plaster, string, raccoon fur, and nails; 20 x 54 x 14 in. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum Exhibition of works from the early 70’s including cardboard sculptures (begun in her kitchen from household materials while her studio was under renovation) Brown c.1960

  30. Wayne Thiebaud (US, b. 1920), Five Hot Dogs, 1961, o/c, 18 x 24 in, Whitney MAA

  31. Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963

  32. Thiebaud, (left) Down Eighteenth Street, oil/charcoal/canvas, 1980, 45 x 36 in, Hirshorn (right top) Y River, 1998, o/c, 72 x 72in compare Diebenkorn, 1955

  33. Jiro Yoshihara (Japan 1905 – 1972), Painting, 1960 founded Gutai Bijutsu Kyokai (Concrete Art Association) in Osaka in 1954 When Jiro Yoshihara died in 1972 the Gutai Art Association was dissolved

  34. Shozo Shimamoto (Japan 1928), Holes, 1954 (right) Painting, 1955 (slashed, punctured, like Fontana) Gutai

  35. Atsuko Tanaka (Japan,1932-2005), Electric Dress [as performance (left) and display as object (right)] 1956, GutaiBlinking incandescent lights covered with red, blue, yellow, and green enamel paint. Flashing on a circuit, the shapes and colors of the figure wearing the costume changed constantly, giving the impression of a body in constant motion even when standing still. “I was seated on a bench at the Osaka station, and I saw a billboard featuring a pharmaceutical advertisement, brightly illuminated by neon lights. This was it! I would make a neon dress!” - Tanaka

  36. Atsuko Tanaka, Drawing after "Electric Dress," 1956, ink, crayon, and watercolor on paper, 109 x 77 cm, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

  37. Saburo Murakami, Gutai perfomance: Smashing Through (21 panels of 42 papers) second Gutai exhibition, Tokyo, 1956 Performance art, like almost all innovations in modern & post-modern art history, came out of painting and was the invention of painters. Painting is the “Ur-medium.”

  38. Kazuo Shiraga (Japan b. 1925), Challenge to the Mud, Gutai performance, 1955 Art as a marriage of concept and raw material: the Gutai notion of allowing the “cry of the material”

  39. Shiraga, Second Gutai exhibition,1956, “action” painting (verb) with feet; (center below) Painting (object) (right) Gutai exhibition of Siraga’s paintings (objects) made with feet

  40. Allan Kaprow (US, 1927-2006), 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, Reuben Gallery, NYC, 1959 Art News, October 1958, published Allan Kaprow’s article, "The Legacy of Jackson Pollock,” which was an analysis of Pollock's work and a meditation on the meaning of his death (1956) for the painting avant-garde.

  41. Allan Kaprow, Yard, Martha Jackson Gallery, NYC 1961; compare (right) Pollock painting, 1950 Young artists of today need no longer say, "I am a painter" or "a poet" or "a dancer." They are simply "artists." All of life will be open to them. - Kaprow, “The Legacy of Jackson Pollock,” 1958

  42. John Cage (US, 1912-1992) early 1950s, prepared piano, aleatory (chance) music, Zen Buddism and the I Ching (Book of Changes)"In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.“ Don’t try to change the world, you’ll only make it worse. -Cage

  43. (left) Italian Futurist Music event, 1913, The music of chance and “noise,” including the sounds of urban life; (right) Hugo Ball performing Dada poem at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, 1916 New York Dada In Advance of a Broken Arm by Marcel Duchamp, 1915 Sources for Neo-Dada of the 1950s Jean Arp, Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance, 1916. Dada

  44. Marcel Duchamp (center) with Carolyn Jones and Merce Cunningham after a performance of Walk Around Time. Sound by John Cage, set (after Duchamp’s Large Glass) by Jasper Johns. Mid-1960s Neo-Dada Rrose Sélavy by Man Ray, 1920

  45. Robert Rauschenberg (US, b.1925), seated on Untitled (Elemental Sculpture) with White Painting (seven panel) behind him in the basement of Stable Gallery, New York (1953). Paintings were used for the watershed Black Mountain Cage “Event” of 1952: the “first” Happening. John Cage wrote a statement for the White Paintings: "... No subject/ No Image/No taste/No object/No beauty/No message/ No talent/No technique.../No idea...“ For Cage, this was high praise. Radical anti-subjective and post-modern

  46. Fred McDarrah (US, b. 1926), Dillon's Bar, University Place: Frank O'Hara, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Jasper Johns, and Anna Moreska, Nov. 10 at Dillon's Bar, NYC,1959(right) Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, John Cage on tour with the Merce Cunningham dance company

  47. Robert Rauschenberg and Carolyne Brown, Pelican, performance, Merce Cunningham dance company, 1963

  48. Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 1955, mixed media, MoMA, NYC Detail of bed: scatological treatment of paint (anti-aesthetic)

  49. (left) Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing,1955, SFMoMA, Neo-Dada; (right) Willem de Kooning, Woman 1, oil on canvas, 1952, MoMA NYC, Abstract Expressionism. Art after Abstract Expressionism has been called “The Academy of the Erased De Kooning.”

  50. Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955 - 59, Combine: oil and collage on canvas with objects.

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