Regionalism (1930-1940) Grant Wood

Regionalism (1930-1940)

Andrew Wyeth- American 1917-2009 Realist Christina's World • His wife was the primary model • Inspired by Anna Olsen ○ Had polio • Realist tempera • Considered a magic realist painting • "was limited physically but by no means spiritually" • Bicycle and leaning ladder in background • “like a crab on a New England seashore” • Fifth floor of MoMa The Helga Pictures • Over 240 paintings of German Helga Testorf • Braided • "Overflow" • "Lovers" Public Sale • One of his first tempera paintings Winter Fields • Dead crow found at Chaddes Ford Flood Plain • Hay, remnants of wagon, icy wheel tracks Winter 1946 • Boy runs down hill that Wyeth's father died on Wind from the Sea • Attic window Trodden Weed • Leather boots Up in the Studio • Curly haired sister looking out window Night Sleeper • Dog sleeping on tan and blue sack Eveining at Kuerners • White farmhouse Young America • Blue and white feather over man riding bike "I paint my life"

Grant Wood- American 1891-1942 American Gothic • Sister Nan Wood Graham and dentist Dr. Byron McKeeby modeled • Woman wears cameo brooch • Mother-in-law's tongue • Dibble House in background • Won $300 in Art Institute of Chicago competition Woman with Plants Birthplace of Herbert Hoover, West Branch, Iowa Daughters of Revolution • Protested against for using German glass for a WWI memorial painting • Commissioned to create stained glass window in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum • Satire Parson Weem's Fable • Washington cutting down cherry tree • Father looks cross • Parson holding back curtain

John Steurart Curry- American 1897-1946 Baptism in Kansas Tragic Prelude • John Brown Norman Rockwell- American Willie Gillis • Cover for the Saturday Evening Post • Holding package in first appearance Rosie the Riveter The Problem We All Live With • Ruby Bridges • William Frantz Elementary School • "nigger" and "KKK" • Splattered tomato Four Freedoms • Freedom of Speech • Freedom of Worship • Freedom from Want • Freedom from Fear • Refer to FDR's Union address Saying Grace • Inspired by reader who said they say a Menonite family praying at a restaurant Before the Shot • Boy pulling pants down Dr and the Doll • Girl in red beret

Magic Realism (1930-1950)

Ivan Albright- American 1897-1983 That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door) Poor Room- There is no time, no end, no today, no yesterday, no tomorrow, only forever, and forever and forever without end (The Window)

Blue Riders (1911-1914)

Wassily Kadinsky- Russian 1866-1944 Der Blaue Reiter • Movement named after it On White II Soft Hard Ten Compositions • VII ○ Most complex • First three were only ever photographed by Gabriele Munter Founder of Abstract Art Worked in Bauhas before closed by Nazis as degenerate art Concerning the Spiritual in Art • Apocolypse • Three types of art ○ Impressions, compositions, and improvisations • Art is like a pyramid

Franz Marc- German 1880-1916 Fate of the Animals • Destroyed in fire in 1916 • Restored by Paul Klee ○ Used brown tints • Only uses diagonal lines The Tower of Blue Horses • Went missing in 1945

Abstract Expressionism (1940- 1960)

Jackson Pollock- American 1912-1956 Number 17A No 5, 1948 • When sold in 2006, most expensive ever • Ted Dragon "You spent money on that?" Mural on Indian Red Ground • Inspired by Native American art Autumn Rhythm (Number 1, 1950) Convergence Blue Poles (Number 11, 1952) The Deep Lavender Mist Full Fathom Five • From Tempest She-Wolf Guardians of the Secret Married to Lee Krasner "Action painting" Exhibited in Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This ClementCentury Greenberg- American 1909- 1994 "American-Type Painting" • First to champion Jackson Pollock

Ad Reinhardt- American 1913- 1967 Black Paintings (Ultimate) (Last) Art-as-Art Twelve Rules for a New Academy

Franz Kline- American 1910-1962 Painting Number 2 Chief Mahoning Four Square Figure Eight Accent Grave Cardinal

Robert Rauschenberg- American 1935-2008 Combines • Bed ○ Paint thrown on bed • Canyon ○ Bald eagle and pillow • Monogram ○ Goat with tire • Reservoir Erased de Kooning Drawing • Erased the drawing he got from de Kooning, and framed it • Description added by lover Jasper Johns Rebus and Bantam

Willem de Kooning- Dutch 1904- 1997 Woman Series • Woman I-VI Easter Monday Attic Excavation Black Friday Light in August Interchange

Elaine de Kooning- American 1918- 1989 Portrait of JFK

Robert Motherwell- American 1915- 1991 Elegy to the Spanish Republic Series • 150 paintings

Jasper Johns- American 1930 Flag White Flag Three Flags Maps Gray Numbers Target with Plaster Casts

Cy Twombly- American 1928-2011 Cold Stream

Arshile Gorky- Armenian 1904-1948 Portrait of Master Bill • Portrait of Willem de-Kooning One Year the Milkweed The Liver is the Cock's Comb • Inspired by farm in Virginia Taught Rothko

David Smith- American 1906-1965 Cubi Series • Stainless steel sculptures all over the world • Numbered by roman numerals Hans Hoffman- German-American 1880-1966 Pompeii The Golden Wall Rising Moon

The Irascibles Group that wrote an open letter to the Met, rejecting the exhibition American Painting Today

Color Field (1940s-1950s)

Mark Rothko- American of Russian Jewish descent (Modern day Latvia) 1903-1970 Black on Maroon Black on Grey No 6. Violet Green and Red No 3/No 13 Magenta Black Green on Orange No 61 Rust and Blue • "Mythomorphic" phase Four Darks in Red • Claimed they were not abstractional, but spiritual Rothko's Chapel • Octogan inscribed in Greek Cross • Houston • Full of black/brown style works • Newman's obelisk out front • Founded by John and Dominique de Menil Seagram Murals • For Four Seasons restaurant • Unfinished "Multiforms" • Anticipated mature style Mentor Avery Milton Part of "Whitney Dissenters" • Manifesto that opposed traditional forms

Barnett Newman- American 1905- 1970 Vir Heroicus Sublimis Onement 1 Whose Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue • Four part series Uses "zip" technique to define spatial structure

Pop Art (1955-1965)

Andy Warhol- American 1928-1987 Campbell's Soup Cans Marilyn Diptych • Silkscreening Coca Cola bottles Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) • Shows mangled body in car crash • Serigraph Electric Chair Chelsea Girls • Experimental film Exploding Plastic Inevitable • Multimedia events • Velvet Underground • Dancers ○ Mary Woronov and Gerard Malanga Munch prints Appears as himself in Cocaine Cowboys The Factory

Roy Lichtenstein- American 1923-1997 Whaam! Drowning Girl • "I don’t care I'd rather sink than call Brad for help" Oh, Jeff…I Love You, Too…But… Look Mickey Masterpiece • Ben-Day Dots The White Tree Amerind Landscape

Robert Indiana- American 1928-20818 LOVE Sculpture Numbers 1-0

Wayne Thiebaud- American 1920 Eight Lipsticks Pies, Pies, Pies

David Hockney- English 1937 A Bigger Splash • LA swimming pool Beverly Hills Housewife Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy • Cat on lap American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) Bigger Trees Near Warter

Richard Hamilton- English 1922-2011 Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? • Created for This Is Tomorrow • Man holding tootsie pop • Woman has lampshade on head This is Tomorrow • Exhibition • 12 groups Neo-Concrete Movement (1959-1961)

Lygia Clark- Brazilian 1920-1988 Nostalgia of the Body Bichos • Hinged aluminum sculptures Trailings • Cuts Mobius Strip

Auto-Destructive Art (1960)

Gustav Metzger- German 1926-2017 Acid Action Painting Flailing Trees • Uprooted trees inverted on concrete block

Jean Tinguely- Swiss 1925- 1991 Metamatics • Machines that created art

Modernism (Late 19th - Early 20th) Georgia O'Keeffe- American The Lawrence Tree • Ponderosa pine on DH Lawrence Ranch Cow's Skull: Red White and Blue Red Canna Sky Above Clouds IV Black Iris III • Interpreted by Linda Nochlin as genetalia Blue and Green Music Rams Head, White Hollyhock Hills The Shelton with Sunspots The Lawrence Tree American Radiator Building Light Coming on the Plains • Early set of three watercolors Jack in the pulpit No. IV Jimson Weed • Sold for 44,405,00 Oriental Poppies "Mother of American Modernism" Museum in Santa Fe Henry Moore- English 1898-1986 Reclining Woman • Inspired by Chac Mool figures Family Group • WWII memorial • Nuclear family, holding baby

Barbara Hepworth- English 1903-1975 Four Sqaure (Walk Through)

Minimalism (1960-1970)

Frank Stella- American 1936 Abstract Expressionnism Black Paintings • Die Fahne Hoch! • Zambezi • Marriage of Reason and Squalor Harran II The Science of Laziness Memantra • Sculpture at Met

New Realism (1960-1970)

Yves Klein- French 1928-1962 IKB 191 • International Klein Blue The Void • 3000 people came to see nothing Leap into the Void • Denoucning NASA's lunar expeditions Sponge Relief People Begin to Fly • Blue silhouettes Monotone Symphony • Orchestral work • One tone for 20 minutes • Played at a "Living Brush" exhibit where women covered themselves in blue paint to create Antrhopometrie paintings Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility • People would trade gold for a cheque, representing the ownership of empty space Pierre Restany helped him found the movement

Art Brut (1972) Jean Dubuffet- French 1901- 1985 Monument with Standing Beast Cow with the Subtile Nose Outsider Art

New Expressionism (Late 1970's) Jean Michel Basquiat- American 1960- 1988 Untitled (Boxer) Grafiiti Artist Worked with Warhol

Young British Artists (1988)

Damien Hirst- English 1965 The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living • Tiger shark in formaldehyde in vitrine For the Love of God • Platinum skull covered in over eight thousand diamonds Mother and Child Away from the Flock Beautiful Inside My Head Forever • Two day auction Fragility of Love • Beach ball hovering above knives • Parodies Disney

Tracy Emin- English 1963 My Bed Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963- 1995

Environmental Art (1990-)

Christo Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude- Bulgarian and Moroccan 1935 Running Fence • 24.5 mile fence in California covered in white nylon fabric The Gates • 23 miles of pathways in Central Park covered in saffron-colored nylon The Floating Piers • 70,000 meters of yellow fabric • Connects Sulzano and San Paolo • Lake Iseo Wrapped Coast • Little Bay, Sydney, Australia Wrapped Reichstag • 9 miles of fabric The Umbrellas • Yellow umbrellas in California, blue in Japan • Woman crushed by umbrella Wolfgnag Volz is exclusive photographer

Yayoi Kusama- Japanese Polka dots • Infinity rooms • Nude women With All My Love for the Tulips, I Pray Forever Obliteration Room • People add colored circles to white room

Visual Art

Jeff Koons- American 1955 Puppy Balloon Dog • Orange, sold for 56.4 Million, most expensive work sold at auction

Claes Oldenburg- Swedish-born American 1929 Lipstick Ascending on Catepillar Tracks • Yale • Used to be balloon Spoonbridge and Cherry

Carolee Schneemann- American 1939-2019 Interior Scroll • Her and other nude women remove an unravelling scroll from their vaginas while in a cave Cezanne, She Was a Great Painter • Book

Contemporary

Hans Haacke- German 1936 Condensation Cube MoMA Poll • "Would the fact that Governor Rockefeller has not denounced President Nixon's Indochina Policy be a reason for your not voting for him in November?" • System art Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971 • Took on real-estate holdings of one of NYC's biggest slum landlords • Exposed corporations controlling low-income housing MetroMobiltan • Three banners hang from Met's front cornice • Two contain statements from Mobil Corporation about involvement in South Africa • Behind banners is a photomural of funeral for black victims On Social Grease • 6 photo-engraved metal plates with statements about art by political executives

Joseph Kosuth- American 1945 One and Three Chairs Takashi Murakami- Japanese 1962 Coined term superflat Artwork for Kanye's graduation My Lonesome Cowboy • Lasso of cum

Kehende Wiley- American 1977 President Barack Obama Napolean Leading the Army Over the Alps Places African Americans in classical paintings

Judy Chicago- American 1939 The Dinner Party • Brooklyn museum • 48x43x36 ft triangle • 39 place settings • Heritage Floor ○ 998 women (and one boy) ○ Hand cast triangular tiles International Honor Quilt The Birth Project Powerplay The Holocaust Project

Barbara Kruger- American 1945 Your body is a battleground • Where supreme logo originated I shop therefore I am

Cartoons

John Tenniel- English 1820- 1914 Dropping the Pilot Illustrated Lewis Carroll's works William Hogarth- English 1697-1764 A Rake's Progress • Eight paintings showing downfall of Tom Rakewell • First ○ Getting measured for clothing ○ "Beware" on wall ○ Paying off old fiancee Sarah Young ○ Her mom holds his love letters • Second ○ Harpsichordist supposed to be Handel • Third ○ Orgy ○ Black spots cover up syphilitic sores • Fourth ○ Poors oil on head • Seventh ○ In jail • Eighth ○ Insane asylum A Harlot's Progress • Six paintings showing downfall of Moll Hackabout • First ○ Arrives in London ○ Elizabeth Needham tries to secure her for prostitution • Fifth ○ Dies of syphilis • Sixth ○ Dead in a tavern ○ Coffin used as a table Marriage A-la-Mode • Disastrous results of marriage for money 1. The Marriage Settlement 2. The Tete a Tete 3. The Inspection a. Husband goes to quack with his syphilitic prostitute 4. The Toilette 5. The Bagnio 6. The Lady's Death