Figurative Art (Post-WWII)

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STYLE  ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

see Postmodern description

• aware that it is a painting
• look to popular world: advertising, magazines, icons, etc. 
• use commercial techniques (like silkscreen)
• simplified look
• pure colors, clean
• taken out of context

SuperRealism/Photo Realism

• reflective surfaces
• illusion from distance
• work form photographs
• clean and stripped of action
• intense still world

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Pop Art
SuperRealism, Photo Realism
Feminist Art

Jasper Johns Target with Four Faces 1955
Jasper Johns Painted Bronze 1960
Pop Art
Andy Warhol Marily Monroe Diptych 1962
Roy Lichtenstein Blam 1962
Super Realism and Photo Realism
Richard Estes Nedicks 1969-70
Duane Hanson Supermarket Shopper 1970
Feminist Art
Judy Chicago The Dinner Party 1979
Barbara Kruger Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face 1985-87

VOCAB

National Endowment for the Arts

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