HOA 106 1nd Edition Lecture 21Outline 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 60si. Serial Art, Geometric Abstraction, Minimal Art, Op Artb. 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 ArtV. Architecture Current LectureLecture 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 Shoppero Very realistic image of a woman shopper pushing a cart filled with groceries. Looks just like a person. Wearing hair curlers andbonnet. 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 The Tourists Two figures in stereotypical tourist attire. A man and woman- Chuck Close, Self-Portraito 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, Utaho 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.o 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 buildingo The first high rise apartment building. o Defines machine for living. o Is not customized for individual people. - Notre-Dame-du-Hauto Church – our lady of the high placeo Organic form combined architecture and sculptureo Strange shape, very small Frank Lloyd Wright - Guggenheim Museumo Organic, curvy shape white coloro 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
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