HOA 106 1nd Edition Lecture 21 Outline of Last Lecture II Film a Bergman Film Noir Science Fiction Thrillers III Modernism Cont a Followers of the Abstract Expressionists Formalist Abstraction of the 1950s and 60s i Serial Art Geometric Abstraction Minimal Art Op Art b Rejection of Abstract Expressionism i Pop Art Outline of Current Lecture IV Modernism Cont a Rejection of Abstract Expressionism Cont i New Realism ii Earthworks and Environmental Art V Architecture Current Lecture Lecture 4 16 15 New Realism or Photo Realism Hyper Realism Super Realism Emphasizes the impersonal nature of the photograph Makes viewers see everything Estes Bus Window o Reflective surfaces challenge the viewer s perceptions o Shows every detail around the bus window Hanson Supermarket Shopper o Very realistic image of a woman shopper pushing a cart filled with groceries Looks just like a person Wearing hair curlers and bonnet These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Two figures in stereotypical tourist attire A man and woman Face portrait resembled from small squares pixel like and blurry Earthworks and Environmental Art Artists began sculpting with earth and the natural environment Only exist in photographs Smithson Spiral Jetty Great Salk Lake Utah o Chuck Close Self Portrait o The Tourists o Made of mud basalt and salt crystal o Will eventually disappear is it erodes o Symbolizes the impermanence of nature Christo and Jeanne Claude Running Fence o A fence like structure made of nylon that is 24 5 miles long o Dramatizes the difference between nature and industrial society o Cost a lot of money funded through sale of drawings and films Architecture Modern architecture flourished after WW2 Impersonal forms and organically shaped forms Mies van der Rohe Seagram Building New York Black glass smoked building Building is perfect modern example Lacks ornament which became the style for corporate buildings Le Corbusier Book Towards a New Architecture Architecture a machine for living Unite d Habitation o A unified apartment building The first high rise apartment building o Defines machine for living o Is not customized for individual people Notre Dame du Haut o Church our lady of the high place o Organic form combined architecture and sculpture o Strange shape very small Frank Lloyd Wright o Guggenheim Museum o Organic curvy shape white color o People critiqued it as the Guggenheim toilet Eero Saarinen Trans World Airlines Terminal Steel structure with aerodynamic shape of a wing symbolizes flight Currently Jet Blue I M Pei East Building National Gallery of Art Triangular figures in the ground Building is geometrically shaped Playful light Made the new house school in Syracuse deposits
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