Abstract Expressionism What Are the Major Themes Of

Arts 349 1st Edition Exam # 3 Study Guide Lectures: 20 - 28

Lecture 20 (10/16)

What are the major themes of the Abstract Expressionism movement? Who made Gestural Abstraction/Action painting famous? Who were some artists of the color field painting branch of Abstract Expressionism? What kind of unique art did Joseph Cornell create?

- Believed in “Art for Art’s sake”, displaying the “truth of the materials”, and rejecting social realist ideas

- Jackson Pollock

- Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman

- He made wooden boxes that he filled with ephemera or little trinkets creating a surrealist feeling with his assemblage technique

Lecture 21 (10/18)

Post War and European Art

Who was Lee Miller? Who inspired Art Informel and were some of the famous artists that arose from this movement? What did the New Realism Movement emphasize and who were major artists of this movement?

- Woman war correspondent for WWII and captured the horrors of the Holocaust through photography for Vogue Magazine

- Art Informel (or formless art) was advocated by Michel Tapie a French critic who emphasized the tachisme technique of using a tache (blot or drop). Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Nicolas de Stael

- Nouve Realisme was very similar to Dada in that it criticized society that led to consumerism and war. They mocked artists that took their work too seriously and no specific style was associated with New Realism. Yves Klein, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and Piero Manzoni were New Realist artists.

Lecture 22 (10/23)

Fluxus and Pop Art

How did the Art Market begin to change in the 1960s and how did artists respond to this? Name some famous performance artists and their works? What was Fluxus? What were the major themes of Pop Art? Who were artists of the Pop Art Movement?

- Art was now viewed as a good investment and art was now emphasized as a commodity even though many abstract expressionists opposed this idea. In consequence, artists attempted to make art that could not be commoditized such as Christo and Jeanne- Claude and their wrapping art.

- Yoko Ono and her “Cut Piece”; John Cage and his “4 minutes, 33 seconds”

- A movement inspired by John Cage and Dada and established by George Maciunas that breaks down the barriers between art and life. Reestablished art in a setting separate from the world of consumerism

- Pop Art came about in Britain and emphasized using every day images of modern life for art using popular culture such as movies, advertising, and tv as themes.

- Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, and of course Andy Warhol

Lecture 23 (10/25)

Op Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, and Body Art

What is Op art? What were 3 Main events that impacted 1960s art? What was Minimalism and who was the influential character of this movement? Who were some of the most important artists of the US Feminist/Body Art Movement?

- Art with the subject focusing on the element of sight and the influence of science, mathematics, an geometric shapes

- Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, and the feminist Movement