Ch 30 Modernism and Post Modernism Abstract

Ch. 30 Modernism and Post Modernism

Abstract Expressionists • • • C. 1940, The New York School New York painters The new center of art Collective voice Aim: to express inner life through art Technique: Free application of paint, no reference to visual reality • Theory: Image no result of preconceived idea, but of creative process

Willem de Kooning -Dutch painter -Immigrated to the US -Used a painters knife to make visible brush strokes -He reworked the paint on the canvas so much that the canvas often had little holes, art dealers would complain.

Willem De Kooning Abstract Expressionism Woman I - One of his most famous artworks - Part of a series of colossal female images

4 min. Khan Academy Video Although the figure’s feminine features are recognizable as is her toothy grin (he based her smile on toothpaste and cigarette advertisements), De Kooning’s abstraction of her form and energetic application of paint symbolize action painting.

Color Field • Paintings with solid areas of color covering the entire canvas, as exemplified in the work of Mark Rothko (American, 1903 -1970), Kenneth Noland (American, 1924 -), and Jules Olitski (American, 1922 -). • A type of Abstract Expressionism, these artists were interested in the lyrical or atmospheric effects of vast expanses of color, filling the canvas, and by suggestion, beyond it to infinity. • Most color-field paintings are large -- meant to be seen up close so that the viewer is immersed in a color environment.

The Bay Helen Frankenthaler Art Activity

• Making an artwork inspired by Helen Frankenthaler is difficult

Pop Art • Consumerism • Neo-Dadaism • Mass-media • Advertising • POPular culture • From England to America

Andy Warhol

http: //webexhibits. org/colorart/marilyns. html

Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol

Art Scholastic Magazine • Class reading

• P. S. there is a movie about Andy Warhol and about the lives of people in that art scene called Factory Girl. But it’s super rated R, so if you come across it, ask mom and dad if it is okay to watch.

Yayoi Kusama

Queen of Pop • Yayoi Kusama has been working as a painter, sculptor and environmental artist for the last fifty years. Born in Matsumoto, Kusama moved from Japan to the USA in 1957, where for fifteen years she participated in the politically charged artistic environment of New York. She returned to Tokyo in the early 1970 s where she continues to live and work. Kusama has been extrememly influential, and she is undoubtedly one of the most significant post war artists to emerge from Asia.

• Kusama studied not only traditional Japanese painting as a young woman, but also European and American modern art. • Exhibited alongside Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, who also were her mentors. • She voluntarily admitted herself into a mental hospital, where she lives now at age 86

• Kusama’s talents have gone in an almost infinite number of directions—Pop, Minimalism, performance art, painting, sculpture, collage, installation art, film, happenings, political actions, counter-cultural events, fashion, design, and even publishing. It’s almost as if no single movement or medium could satisfy her imagination. The constraints of Japanese culture, especially for women, put a lid upon her infinite mind that just increased the pressure to express to the point of explosion.

Narcissus Garden. Yayoi Kusama

• Narcissus Garden for the 1966 Venice Biennale when the artist was censured for selling 1, 500 mirrored globes under a sign that read "Your Narcissism for Sale. " Over the past three decades, Kusama has often revisited mirrored forms in her work, exploring notions of infinity, illusion, and repetition in discrete sculptures and roomsize installations.

David Hockney • Moved from Britain to California • Explored the culture of LA through his work, including the homosexual scene, the swimming pool, and the seaside.

• Hockney enjoyed the coastal beauty of California, saying that he considered “Venice California more beautiful than Venice Italy”. When he returned from England in 1968, he painted three paintings, one of which was California Seascape, which was inspired by the seaside window of the Corona del Mar home of his friend and fellow artist, Dick Smith. Hockney painted it at the suggestion of Smith.

California Seascape, David Hockney

When looking at California Seascape, it is as you are inside a building looking through a window at the sea. The interior of this building is very geometric and modern. The water is not lifeless or emotionless and ripples as well as the reflection of the sunlight on the surface of the water are visible.

• Sailboats ornament the ocean scene, as well as a few palm trees and a small building in the distance on a strip of land sticking out into the ocean. The mood is calm and peaceful, and at the moment in the painting, it seems as if there are no troubles.

• The perspective of the painting is from the interior of the painting and it is as if the viewer is looking at another picture when looking out through window. The painting seems to embody the relaxed, carefree, and untroubled life offered by California.

Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Claes Oldenburg

Seagram Building Khan Academy Video 10 min.

House in New Castle County

Earthworks/ Environmental Art • Earth art refers to a movement of artists with wide ranging goals, but all created in nature, employing such materials as stones, dirt, and leaves. • Most works are sculptural. Earthworks often refer to phenomena such as the slow process of erosion or to the movement of planets or stars, especially the sun.

• Many earthworks are intended to help us to better understand nature. Some demonstrate the inherent differences between nature and civilization, often pointing out artists' desires to understand, conquer, and control natural processes. • During the late 1960 s and early 1970 s art began to move outdoors from galleries.

Smithson. Spiral Jetty. 1970 1500 feet long

• Khan Academy Video 4 min. • Class Quiz

Cue Cards • Chapter 29= 19 + • plus 13 “isms” + • Chapter 30= 9 Total = 41 Cue Cards

Side Note… • Is anyone NOT taking the AP or IB final exam?