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Final Exam-Modern Art Wk 12
Post-­‐Painterly Abstraction/Sixties Abstraction/Hard-­‐Edge Painting/Minimalism/Conceptualism
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/10/2012

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L: Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952, oil and charcoal/c

-soft and diffused arrangement of color in her work
-overlaying of that yellow of gray in center
-structural-something to behold –contrasting yellows and blues –new art
Term
[image]
Definition
Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #54, 1972; o/c


-luminosity of colors and patterns, and paint drippings
-this was a subject he work w/ for 20 years
-similarity but from one image to another very diff.
-not flatly applied, but emerge from this overlaying of one color or the other
Term
[image]
Definition
Kelly, Orange and Green, 1966, liquitex/c


-what more can I take out of this?
-gives us opportunity to see what Kelly is doing in his work?
-is there any tension going on?
-the way he’s applying orange pigment onto green surface
-green cool color; and orange color warm
-contrast w/ oval shape and rectangular shape
-very defined and distinct
-really solid hues
Term
[image]
Definition
Frank Stella, Die Fahne Hoch!, 1959, enamel/c, “Black Painting” Series


-black paint on unprimed canvas
-leaves stripes untouched
-uses pencil to make grid
-lot of ppl see cross
-celebrate work can have it both ways
Term
[image]
Definition
Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965, wood folding chair, mounted photograph of a chair, and mounted photographic enlargement of the dictionary definition of “chair”

-are these all chairs? Or are they all equally considered chairs?
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