Paul Jackson Pollock
Friday, April 27, 2012
Abstract Expressionism
Modernism and the Interwar Years
Elsie Driggs
Pittsburgh, 1927
Elsie Driggs was born in the year 1898,
Hartford, Connecticut and died July12, 1992, New York City. He was an American
painter known mostly for her contributions to the Precisionism movement of the
1920s, as well as for her floral and figurative paintings in watercolor,
pastels, and oils later on in her career. Her works are in the collections of
the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Whitney Museum of American Art (New
York), the James A. Michener Art Museum (Pennsylvania), and the Columbus Museum
of Art (Ohio), among others.
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Neo- Dada and Pop Art
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was born August 6, 1928 and died February
22, 1987 was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art
movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic
expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s.
After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned
and sometimes controversial artist.
Twenty-Five Colored Marilyn, 1962
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Minimalism and Conceptual Art
Robert Smith
Smithson is one of the most influential of the
diverse generation who emerged in the wake of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, and who are known as Post minimalists. Although inspired by Minimalism's use of industrial
materials, and its interest in the viewer's experience of the space around the
art object, the Postminimalists sought to abandon even more aspects of
traditional sculpture. Smithson's approaches are typical of this group: he
constructed sculptures from scattered materials; he found ways to confuse the
viewer's understanding of sculpture (often by using mirrors, or confusing
scales); and his work sometimes referred to sites and objects outside of the
gallery, leading the viewer to question where the art object really resided.
Spiral Jetty, 1970
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http://www.robertsmithson.com/index_.htm
Feminist Art and Art
Yolanda Lopez
Among the works López is best known for is her groundbreaking Virgin of Guadalupe series. López consistently challenges the ways Latinos and Latinas are represented, and she presents us with new models of gender, ethnic, and cultural identity.
Virgin of Guadalupe,
1978, from the Guadalupe series.
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Culture War: the 1980's
Richard Serra
Richard Serra groundbreaking sculpture
explores the exchange between artwork, site, and viewer. He has produced
large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban, and landscape
settings spanning the globe, from Iceland to New Zealand.
Tilted Arc, 1981-1989
Tilted Arc, Richard Serra,
1981, sculpture, steel, New York City (destroyed). Photo © 1985 David
Aschkenas.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Serra
Contemporary Art
Anna Hamilton
Ann Hamilton is a visual artist
internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale
multi-media installations. Using time as process and material, her methods of
making serve as an invocation of place, of collective voice, of communities
past and of labor present.
Myein, 1999
A lamentation for the "American Century", Myein featured wall cover with Braille translation of poems
about American violence and mysterious showers of pink dust to illustrated the pain and lost.
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http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/biography.html
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