AP Art History MODERN ART

Abstract Expressionism

post WWII art movement developed in NYC during the 1940's. The first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put NYC at the center of the western art world, a role that was formerly filled by Paris. Used abstraction to convey expressive content.

Piet Mondrian

Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow

Shirin Neshat (artist); photo by Cynthia Preston

Rebellious Silence, from the Women of Allah series

Color Field

a style of abstract painting characterized by simple shapes and monochromatic color

Key Ideas (Early Modern Art)

-Early modern art flourished at a time of immense political and social unrest (WWI&II, Great Depression) -Artists and architects were quick to embrace new technologies in their art -New and unusual experimental ideas inspired patrons and allowed cutting-edge artists to thrive -The Armory Show introduced modern art to America -Gallery 291 exhibited photographs beside paintings as works of art for the first time

Key Ideas (Late Modern Art)

-Late modern art is a restless era of great experimentation, beginning with the achievements of the New York School -Contemporary art characterized by short-lived movements of intense activity -Technological developments brought about a flood of new products that the artist can use to express him or herself -Most artists work in a variety of media -Modern architecture radically altered by the introduction of the computer, which makes drawing ground plans and sections easier and more efficient than ever before; also checks automatically for structural errors -Growing number of female artists, gallery owners, patrons, and customers, bringing about closer equality of the sexes

Xu Bing

A Book from the Sky

Primitivism

A Western art movement that borrows visual forms primitive or prehistoric people and their art. Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso. Important to the development of modern art.

Documentary Photography

A type of photography that seeks social and political redress for current issues by using photographs as a way of exposing society's faults.

Deconstructionism

A way of understanding how something was created, breaking it down into smaller parts which are usually ideas.

Land Art (Earthworks)

An art movement in which landscape and the work of art are linked. Created in nature using natural materials. Coined by Robert Smithson. Movement began in late 60's.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Androgyne III

What is the New York School?

Another name for Abstract Expressionism

Faith Ringgold

Dancing at the Louvre, from the series The French Collection, Part I; #1

Kara Walker

Darkytown Rebellion

Diego Rivera

Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park

Fauvism

Early 20th century modern art movement led by Henri Matisse and André Derain. The Fauves were a group of French painters influenced by the bright colors used by the Post-impressionists like van Gogh.

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Earth's Creation

Nam June Paik

Electronic Superhighway

Pepon Osorio

En la Barberia no se Liora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)

Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)

Fallingwater

Marcel Duchamp

Fountain(2nd version)

Henri Matisse Fauvism

Goldfish

Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (3 images)

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Horn Players

Varvara Stepanova

Illustrations from The Results of the First Five-Year Plan

Vassily Kandinsky

Improvisation 28 (Second Version)

Ai Weiwei

Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)

Pop Art

Pop art has themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, like advertising and comic books.Developed in the 1950's & 60's. Created by Eduardo Paolozzi. Other popular artists are Andy Warhol, Rbert Indiana, and Roy Lichenstein.

Pablo Picasso Primitivism Cubism

Les Demoiselless d'Avignon

Claes Oldenburg

Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

Kiki Smith

Lying with the Wolf

Zaha Hadid

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts (2 images)

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych

Käthe Kollwitz

Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht

Yayoi Kusama

Narcissus Garden

Wangechi Mutu

Preying Mantra

Mariko Mori

Pure Land

Meret Oppenheim

Object (Luncheon in Fur) (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)

El Anatsui

Old Man's Cloth

Cubism

One of the 20th century's most significant art movements. It aims to show all of the possible viewpoints of a person or object at once. The items often represent cubes and other geometric shapes, giving the movement its name. Less focus on color, more on shape and form. It began in France c. 1907 and continued into the 1920's. Three phases: Early Cubism (1906-08), High Cubism (1909-14), and Late Cubism (1914-21). Pioneered by Georges Braque and Picasso.

Jeff Koons

Pink Panther

Michel Tuffery

Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Philip Johnson (architects)

Seagram Building

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Self-Portrait as a Soldier

Doris Salcedo

Shibboleth

Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty

Julie Mehretu

Stadia II

Ferroconcrete

Steel reinforced concrete. Two materials act together to resist building stress.

Song Su-nam

Summer Trees

Helen Frankenthaler

The Bay

Bill Viola

The Crossing

Christo & Jeanne-Claude

The Gates

Wilfredo Lam

The Jungle

Constantin Brancusi.

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt

The Kiss

Jacob Lawrence

The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49

Georges Braque Cubism

The Portuguese

Alfred Stieglitz

The Steerage

Yinka Shonibare

The Swing (after Fragonard)

Frida Khalo

The Two Fridas,

Feminist Art Movement

The efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to produce art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to bring more visibility to women within artistic fields. Movement began in the 1960's, flourishing throughout the 1970's.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Trade(Gifts for Trading Land with White People)

Cindy Sherman

Untitled (#228), from the History Portraits series

Color Field Painting

a style of abstract painting that emerged in NYC during the 40's and 50's. Inspired by European modernism and closely relates to Abstract Expressionism. Large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas, creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. Less emphasis on brushstrokes and action and more on consistency of form and process.

Robert Venturi, John Rauch, & Denise Scott Brown (architects)

Venturi House

Maya Lin Influenced by Minimalist movement

Vietnam Memorial

Le Corbusier (architect)

Villa Savoye (2 images)

Expressionism

When artists attempt to draw a feeling out of the viewer with their art. Colors and shapes are not used in a traditional way, but rather how the artist feels them. Presents the world as subjunctive: how the artist feels it, not how it is scientifically. i.e: El Greco, Franz Marc

Willem de Kooning Expressionism

Woman I

Ready-made

a commonplace object selected and exhibited as a work of art. Works of art because the artists said they were.

Collage

a composition made by pasting together different items onto a flat service

Frottage

a composition made by rubbing a crayon or a pencil over a paper placed over a surface with a raised design.

Biomorphism

a movement stressing organic shapes that hint at natural forms

Cantilever

a projecting beam that is attached to a building at one end, but suspended in the air at the other

Harlem Renaisance

a rich artistic period in the 1920's and 30's that is named after the black neighborhood in NYC where it emerged. Marked by a cultural resurgence by African Americans in the fields of painting, writing, music, and photography.

Installation

a temporary work of art made up of assemblages created for a particular space, like an art gallery or museum

Assemblage

a three-dimensional work made of various materials such as wood, cloth, paper, and miscellaneous objects

Regionalism

an American art movement from the early 20th century that emphasized Midwestern rural life in a direct style

Action Painting

an abstract painting in which the artist drips or splatters paint onto a surface like a canvas in order to create his or her work

Dada

an art movement of the early 20th century, starting around WWI. Its purpose was to ridicule and poke fun at the supposed meaningless of the modern world. It was caused by the horrors of WWI, and Dada artists made no attempt to let their art make sense.

Benday Dots

named for inventor Benjamin Day. This printing process uses the pointillist technique of colored dots from a limited palette placed closely together to achieve more colors and subtle shadings

Abstract

works of art that may have form, but have little or no attempt at pictorial representation