Abstract Expressionism

 Paul Jackson Pollock

Paul Jackson Pollock was born January 28, 1912 and died August 11, 1956, known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his uniquely defined style of drip painting. 

Autumn Rhythm: Number 30,1950

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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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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.Oil pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches.  identity.

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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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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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American Photographers/ Mini Presentation

Presentation:One Of The Greates Photographers In American

November 3, 1903 - April 10, 1975

In 1922, Walker Evans graduates from the Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He went to study literature at Williams College only for one year. He decides to work and takes various jobs in New York City. Walker Evans also had inspiration to become a writer and he decided to go to Paris to attend literature lectures at The Sorbonne in 1926.  He did not last in Paris and return to New York. He job was a clerk for a stockbroker firm in Wall Street for three years.

In 1928, his first photograph was with a small hand-held, roll-film camera. In 1930, he published three photographs (Brooklyn Bridge) in the poetry book “The Bridge” by Hart Crane. This was the beginning of his career.

In 1936, July to August: three-week stay with sharecropper families in Hale County, Alabama, together with James Agee. The commission is from Fortune for a text-photo article on sharecroppers. Agee had requested Evans as photographer. Evans receives a temporary leave from his Farm Security Administration job under the condition that the photographs become government property. The article was lost. The article did not meet the magazine's expectations and is rejected. The expanded book version does not appear until:

In 1937 September: end of his contract with the Farm Security Administration. From now on activity as independent photographer, partially, up to the summer of 1938, for the Farm Security Administration.

In 1938, "Walker Evans: American Photographs," exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the first exhibition in this museum devoted to the work of a single photographer. His picture was featuring in the catalog with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein. His first photographs in the New York subway with a camera hidden in his coat.

In1960, New edition of “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” Walker Evans had expanded section of photographs. The book experiences a late success in the atmosphere of the 1960 protest movements and the beginning of a cult around James Agee. Through this edition a new generation also discovers Evans's photographs.

In1965, he was a professor of photography on the Faculty for Graphic Design at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. The following year he was publication in book form of his subway photographs.

Finally in 1975 April 10: Evans dies in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Final Presentation

Juliet  Taymor

She was born on December 15, 1952, in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Her father, Melvin Lester Taymor, was a gynecologist. Her mother, Elizabeth Bernstein, was a teacher of political science. Young Taymor was fond of international folklore and mythology, and also developed a passion for theatre. She spent her formative years living in several countries. As a teenager, during the 1960s, she lived in Sri Lanka and India with the Experiment in International Living program, then studied acting in Paris, at the mime school of Jacques Lecoq. From 1969 to 1974, she studied theatre and mythology at Oberlin College, graduating in 1974 with a degree in folklore and mythology.

During the 1970s, Taymor lived in Japan, studying the art of puppetry and Japanese theatre. Then, she spent five years in Indonesia, working as director of international theatre with Asian, European, and American actors.

 

Taymor directed a massive Walt Disney Company's production of "The Lion King" and “ Spider-man Turn Off The Dark”, on Broadway, for which she also co-designed over a 100 costumes and masks of animals, and earned two Tony Awards Her film, Frida (2002), received six Oscar nominations, and two Oscars, for make-up and for the music score by Elliot Goldenthal. Taymor continued her success with the 2004 production of "The Magic Flute" at the Metropolitan Opera (which is now in repertoires at the Met), and the 2006 staging of "Grendel" at the Los Angeles Opera and, later, at the Linolcn Center Festival

Taymor directed a massive Walt Disney Company's production of "The Lion King" and “ Spider-man Turn Off The Dark”, on Broadway, for which she also co-designed over a 100 costumes and masks of animals, and earned two Tony Awards Her film, Frida (2002), received six Oscar nominations, and two Oscars, for make-up and for the music score by Elliot Goldenthal. Taymor continued her success with the 2004 production of "The Magic Flute" at the Metropolitan Opera (which is now in repertoires at the Met), and the 2006 staging of "Grendel" at the Los Angeles Opera and, later, at the Linolcn Center Festival. Taymor's experience with cross-genre and cross-cultural productions came to culmination in her latest film, Across the Universe (2007). It is a musical set in the 1960s England, Vietnam, and America, where a love story and social protest are intertwined with over thirty songs by The Beatles.
Outside of her directing profession, Taymor amassed puppets, masks and folk art from around the world. As an artist, she has been involved in making puppets, masks, costumes and stage sets. Since 1980, Julie Taymor has been a long-time collaborator with the Oscar-winning composer, Elliot Goldenthanl, and the couple lives in Manhattan.

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A New Deal for the Art: The Great Depression

American Holocaust video clip 

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The Dust Bowl, stock market crash and Great Depression resulted in the deaths of an estimated 7.5 million Americans. The natural and unnatural events had one major result, removing millions of Homesteaders, American Indians and freed slaves off the petroleum rich Great Plains during the largest oil boom in US history. The first section describes why and how, the most catastrophic environmental event in human history goes un-narrated and unknown to most Americans and the worlds population, and incorporates the political, social and religious motives. Section two, will cover an investigation of the Dust Bowl, the oil rich lands of the Great Plains, Great Depression, and expose the leaders which forced the incident and pursuing Holocaust. The third section, will describe how the stock market was crashed in 1929 and its similarity to the 2008 stock market crash. The forth section will explore historical events connecting the American Dust Bowl to a global cooling trend, felt around the world. The conclusion will involve an exploration into earths environment, ecosystems and climate to extract the natural causes of the Dust Bowl.

Painter Lily Furedi

Lily Furedi: Subway, 1934 Smithsonian American Art Museum Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service 1965.18.43

WPA

From 1933 to 1934 the Public Works of Art Project agency did such a poor job at filtering out Holocaust themes and symbols, the Wall Street Robber Baron Bankers, the elite which have always been entrenched in the Treasury Department took over the censorship program in 1934. The department of Treasury approving art just sounded fishy, so the Federal Art Project (FAP) was finally created in August 1935 with a well trained staff. This was the final Works Progress Administration (WPA) for the revolting New Deal artists. The WPA managed and approved art for 5,000 artists who produced some 225,000 pieces of works. By, 1935 the government had full control over the art community and understood the coding in the images, produced by the revolting artist, who were documenting the American Holocaust.




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Avant-Garde Art and Experimentation

Arthur Dove

Arthur Garfield Dove in August 2, 1880 to the November 23, 1946 was an American artist. An early American Modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.Although Dove has always occupied a central place in early American Modernism, he was also among the first twentieth-century American artists to produce purely abstract paintings, and he continued this to varying degrees throughout his career. His reputation continued to grow after his death and he has been credited with exercising an indirect influence on the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, who placed similar emphasis on the artist's subjective experience of his surroundings and on the intrinsic emotional power of color and line.

Piece of his work.

30's Arthur Dove

The Critic 1925 

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2012 American Painter

Ryan Shultz from Chicago

Ryan Shultz is a young man with the passion and talented of painting. At this moment his work painting drug acids to make the American people to see themselves on the paint. To be aware of the condition may youth is going through.

These are some of his painting all the paintings are made oil canvas.

"Jill with Coffee"

"Anne"

"Jakub Smoking"

"Jakub (Diptych)

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The Gilded Age

William Sidney Mount

November 26,1807 - November 19, 1868

William Sidney Mount dedicated to paint the everyday life of American people. During the time the only resources to record the moment is by having a painter to record the moment. 

The painting is called "The Power of Music"
1847

This painting focus on the everyday life of the American people. This painting also illustrates the constantly changing way of the people and is away for the American to view themselves. Another way of this painting shows the artist humbly craftsman and the highly valued of the artist as a professional. 

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