Transcript
Chapters 37-38
What is Pop Art?
Elite Culture
Popular Culture
Postwar Consumerism
Andy Warhol• Cult figure• Celebrated the
“everyday”• Materialism• Psychological
intensity
• Cow wallpaper, 1966• Campbell Soup Can,
1964
Andy Warhol, Elvis, 1962-1966
Andy Warhol• Mint Marilyn
Monroe, 1962
Andy Warhol
• Self-portrait 1985
Louise Nevelsen
• White Vertical Water, 1972
• Used discards from industry to “construct” assemblages, influenced by cubism
Roy Lichtenstein “Blam” (1954)
Roy Lichtenstein, In the Car (1955)
Claes Oldenburg, Pastry Case, 1961-1962
Source: MOMA
Louise Nevelsen, Sculpture
• “I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within.”
Frank Stella, Empress of India (1965)
An example of minimalist painting – also called “contentless” painting Source: MOMA
• Critics say that Nevelson’s art is authentic because it uses objects, while Warhol’s art is less authentic because it uses images. Do you agree?
• “True subject of a photorealist work is the way we unconsciously interpret photographs and paintings in order to create a mental image of the object represented”
--Artcyclopedia
New Realism
New Realism
Photorealism
Chuck Close
• Lucas, 1987
Chuck Close
• Phil, 1969• 9 x 7 feet
Richard Estes, Hotel Empire, 1987
“When you look at a space or an object, you tend to scan it. Your eye travels around and over things. As your eyes move, the vanishing point moves, to have one vanishing point or perfect camera perspective is not realistic.” Estes
• “Seeks to transform society by awakening its visionary potential” --Fiero (150)
Social Conscience Art
Global context
Social Conscience Art
Social Conscience
Film
Jasper Johns
Flag
1954-1955
Robert Rauschenberg• Bed, 1955• 6’3: x 31’3”• Paint splashed over
‘dream fabric’• Considered ACTION
painting
Robert Rauschberg
• Buffalo II, 1964• 8 x 6 feet
Edward Kienholz
The State Hospital
1964-1966
Edward Kienholz• Backseat Dodge,
1938
• Next: The Portable War Memorial, 1968
Kienholz: The Portable War Memorial
Source: http://www.beatmuseum.org/kienholz/edkienholz.html
Judy Chicago • The Dinner Party (1974-1979)
– Setting for 39 women with 999 names of women as supporting tiles
– Chicago: “Meant to end the ongoing cycle of omission in which women were written out of the historical record”
– Represents each woman with place setting featuring plates in butterfly or flower shape, representing the woman’s vulva
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dinner_Party
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979
• Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other’s shoulders and building upon each other’s hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.
Basquiat
• Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari, 1960s
Robert Rauschberg
• Riding Bikes, 1999
Sources
• Mark Hardin’s ARTCHIVE
• Nevelson at Guggenheim online
• Judy Chicago at Women’s History
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