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Lecture 25Outline of Last Lecture I. Auguste and Louis Lumière, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, 1895 (video 0:00:41)II. Auguste and Louis Lumière, Train Arriving at the Station at La Ciotat, 1895 (video 0:00:44)III. Auguste and Louis Lumière, Demolition of a Wall, 1896 (video 00:01:15)IV. Thomas Edison, The Kiss, 1896 (video 00:00:29)V. Georges Méliès, A Trip to the Moon, 1902 (video 00:02:38)Outline of Current Lecture I. Consequences of World War II on global art productionII. Picasso, Guernica, 1937 III. Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950IV. Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51V. Tony Smith, Die, steel, 1962VI. Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962VII. Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, film, 1954/55Current LectureDate: April 30, 2015Title: Modern and Contemporary ArtProfessor: Jane BlockerReadings: Art through the Ages, Book E, pp. 900-916, 920-923 Allan Kaprow, “The Legacy of Jackson Pollock,” Artnews, 57, no. 6 (October 1958), pp. 24-26, 55-57. Watch: Yoko Ono, Cut Piece (external website video 00:08:55)Terms:- Postcolonialism: the study of the legacy of the era of European, and sometimes American, direct global domination, which ended roughly in the mid-20th century, and the residual political, socio-economic, and psychological effects of that colonial history- Abstract expressionism: The first major American avant-garde movement, Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York City in the 1940s. The artists produced abstract paintings that expressed their state of mind and that they hoped would strike emotional chords in viewers. The movement developed along two lines: gestural abstraction and chromatic abstraction. (Book E, 902)- Post-painterly abstraction: An American art movement that emerged in the 1960s and was characterized by a cool, detached rationality emphasizing tighter pictorial control. (Book E, 907) ArtH 1001 1st Edition- Minimalism: A predominantly sculptural American trend of the 1960s characterized by works featuring a severe reduction of form, often to single, homogeneous units. (Book E, 910)- Pop art: A term coined by British art critic Lawrence Alloway to refer to art, first appearing in the 1950s,that incorporated elements from consumer culture, the mass media, and popular culture, such as images from motion pictures and advertising. (Book E, 899)- Conceptualism: (Conceptual Art): An American avant-garde art movement of the 1960s whose premise was that the “artfulness” of art lay in the artist’s idea rather than its final expression. (Book E, 936)- Installation: An artwork that creates an artistic environment in a room or gallery. (Book E, 950)- Postmodernism: A reaction against modernist formalism. It is far more encompassing than the modernist practice. Postmodernism accommodates a wide range of styles, subjects, and formats, from traditional easel painting to installation and from abstraction to illusionistic scenes. Postmodern art often includes irony or reveals a self-conscious awareness on the part of the artist of art-making processes or the workings of the art world. (Book E, 929)- Performance art: a type of art that is created in front of or presented to an audience by the artist- Korean War: 1950-53- Vietnam War: 1964-75- Civil Rights Movement: 1955-65- Women’s Liberation Movement: 1970-82Works:- Picasso, Guernica, 1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid- Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.- Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51, Museum of Modern Art, New York- Tony Smith, Die, steel, 1962, Museum of Modern Art, New York- Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962, Tate Modern, London - Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35, gelatin silverprint, 1979- Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, film, 1954/55I. Consequences of World War II on global art production- Economic privation in Europe----Shift of art production to U.S- U.S. Occupation of Japan----East/West cultural exchange- GI Bill sends soldiers to college----Expansion of art training----Institutionalization of the avant-garde- Development of new technologies----Expansion of Media- Spread of multinational capitalism----International art market- Postcolonial turmoil----globalization of art- Rights Movements----growth of identity politics- Vietnam----antiwar movements----politicization of art and distrust of cultural institutionsII. Picasso, Guernica, 1937 - Painting that depicts massacre in Spanish War- Bombed little town, no militarysignificance- Fragmentation to express effecto Condemnation of the Naxibombing of Basque capital- Scene’s severity represented by dark color palette III. Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 - No attempt at representation- Earth toneso Pollock painted - 7ft by 9 ft, large canvaso Laid canvas on floor o Buckets of house paint/car paint Not from a tubeo All Over Composition No center or focuso Painting about paintingIV. Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51- Thinking about pure color - Heroic Sublime Virility (Latin)- Large, 8ft by 18ft- Single slightly modulated color field split mynarrow bands the artist called “zips”o He did not intend the viewer to perceivethe zips as specific entities, rather asaccents energizing the field and giving it scale- Newman increased color’s capacity to communicate and to express his feelings about the tragic condition of modern life and the human struggle to survive. V. Tony Smith, Die, steel, 1962 - Minimalismo Early 1960s-1970s- Steel cube- 6ft by 6ft by 6ft- Not about beauty- Three-dimensionalo Calls attention to viewer’s experience with it- Abstract, geometric- Post-modernist- Smith didn’t craft this object, he sent specifications of cube and had it madeo Industrial fabricatoro Steel rusts- Die=single dice; life and deathVI. Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962- American Pop artist - Celebrates celebrity - Diptychs are typically religiouso Madonnas- Marilyn Monroe is a new icon, new “virgin Madonna”Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35, gelatin silverprint, 1979 (NOT COVERED INLECTURE)VII. Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, film, 1954/55- Coco Chanel suit- Large pair of scissors o Audience snips off pieces of clothingo Unique every time Not able to duplicate 4 different timeso Art can’t exist without


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