Late Modern and PostModern

...or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

Late Modern Art

• influenced by Cold War, nuclear stand-off, spheres of influence, colonial revolution, independence, and civil war, Israel and Islam, international migration
• multiculturism and egalitarianism
• fear of ethnocentrism
• source of art in subconscious
• forces of nature
• no center, pattern all over
• harmony
• New York School
  • shift of art leadership (Paris->New York)
• Abstract Expressionism
  • Action, gestural painting
  • colorfield
• Minimal Art
• Kitsch (German): sentinmental art for decoration, lack of quality

Postmodern Art

• influenced by civil rights movement, feminist movement, Vietnam and Watergate, counter cultures, sexual revolution, computer age, challenges to traditions/hierarchies/powers, multiculturism, egalitarianism
• interest in
  • neglected others (women, blacks, Hispanics,etc.)
  • other places (Third World nations, regional art)
  • underprivileged media (fabrics, photography, video, advertising,etc.)
• emphasis on
  • cultural conditions
  • displacing in the process traditional concepts of originality, quality and meaning
• Earthworks
  

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Abstract-Expressionism
Minimal Art
Postmodern Art

Abstract-Expressionism
Jackson Pollock Lucifer 1947	(this is actuall Autumn Rhythms, 1950 but Lucifer should look a lot like it)
Mark Rothko Four Darks on Red 1958
Willem de Kooning Woman I and IV c.1952
Helen Frankenthaler Bay Side 1967
Minimal Art
Donald Judd Untitled (stainless steel boxes) 1968
Postmodern Art
Judy Pfaff Rock/Paper/Scissors 1982
Martin Puryear Thicket 1990
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty Great Salt Lake, Utah 1970

VOCAB

Abstract-Expressionism
Earthworks
Kitsch

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