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• American post–World War II art movement
• World wide movement-Europe-USA-Latin America
• name derived from combo of emotional intensity and self-denial of German Expressionists
• anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools (Futurism, the Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism)
Artists: : ackson Pollock, Barnett Newman (color field painter), Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky |
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• flourished from 1950s to mid 1970s (Post war architecture)
• spawned from modernist architectural movement
• typically linear, fortresslike and blockish
• Assessable and affordable materials such as concrete
• Viewed as a populous architectural movement
• Uncompromising, anti-bourgeois
• Concrete facades often wore away or were vulnerable to damp weather |
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• founded 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany and Yves Klein
• "Nouveau Réalisme—new ways of perceiving the real."
• Contemporaries of American pop art, new realism, Fluxus and other groups were one of the numerous tendencies of the avant-garde in 1960s
• It was dissolved in 1970 |
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• founded 1954 by Jiro Yoshihara
• Near Ashiya, Japan
• formative influence on the later Fluxus movement
• created works now called installations, inspiring work of non-Japanese artists such as Allan Kaprow and Nam June Paik |
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New York city, 1958
Oldenburg organized several in 1962 called Ray Gun Theater
1957: Allan Kaprow begins organizing “action collages then happenings in 1958
(according to Kaprow, 1965)
• fluid lines between art and life
• most materials should NOT come from art world
• move around and change location
• pace should be variable
• The Happening should be performed only once |
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Germany 1962
Movement features John Cage, George Macionas, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins
• Scripted/scored performances
• Intersection of different media: video sculpture, instillation, everyday life
• Sought to undermine the commodification of art objects |
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• mid 1950s in Britain and late 1950s in United States
• challenge to tradition of fine art (includes imagery from pop culture such as advertising, comics, news, etc
• material sometimes visually removed from known context, isolated/combined with unrelated material
• employs images of pop vs. elitist culture; emphasis on banal or kitschy elements, often through irony
• mechanical means of reproduction or rendering
• utilization of found objects and images it is similar to Dada (Marcel Duchamp)
•Example artist: Andy Warhol |
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• Style/movement originated in NYC
• post–World War II Western Art, American vis. arts in 1960s and early 1970s
• exposes essence or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts (ewest elements are used to create the maximum effect)
Artists: Barnett Newman, Donald Judd, Eva Hesse, Richard Tuttle |
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• Artists interested in finding alternate to the gallery
• Main Spokes person was curator/historian Germano Celant
• attacking values of established institutions of government, industry, and culture
• questioning whether art as private expression of the individual still had ethical reason to exist
Artists: Alberto Burri, Piero Manzoni, Michelangelo Pistoletto |
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• This is a tendency not a movement (starts in the 70s)
• Massive donations to the arts start now
• Critical of emerging commercial structures of museums
• The museum of Conceptual Art is founded, San Fran, 1973 (75 third street)
• 1st performance- curator/director Tom Marioni giving beer to vitors.
• Spurs many to start doing Earth Works |
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