Painting 1950-1980's
-Abstract Expressionism-Action painting
-Abstract Expressionism was very dogmatic
Jackson Pollock
-"Jack the Dripper"
We looked at his #8 painting from 1948
Norman Rockwell
-He was a popular illustrator
Franz Kline
-His art was put on postage stamps
Willem De Kooning
-Famous for unflattering pictures of women
Joan Mitchell
-Second generation abstract expressionism
Minimal Painters:
Brice Marden
-We looked at his work, Cold Mountain, #60
Color Field Paintings:
-No mark making; just ephemeral spills
Helen Frankenthaler
-Mountains & Sea, 1952
Mark Rothko
-We looked at some of his work from 1951
Morris Lewis
-He used acrylic paint
-We looked at some of his work from 1959
The Painted Word:
Tom Wolfe
-Hard edge
-Op
-Pop
Frank Stella
-Geek with a steady hand
-Used acrylic paint
Hard Edge Painting:
Ellsworth Kelly
-No emotion in paintings
-Spectrum 5, 1963
Bridget Riley
-Big Blue, 1981
Mary Hildman
Pop Art:
Andy Warhol
Marcel Duchamp
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Indiana
-LOVE, 1961
Jasper Johns
-Painting of numbers
Neo-Pop Art:
Beginning of new ear of art making.