The 80's
Jeff_Koons
Julian_Schnabel
Chuck_Close
James_Rosenquist
Anselm_Kiefer
Gilbert and George
Jim_Dine
Magdalena_Abakanowicz
Richard_Estes
Andy_Goldsworthy
Cindy_Sherman
Sandy_Skoglund
Maya_Lin
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Welcome to the 1980's!
1980
- Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran
- John Lennon Assassinated
- Mount St. Helens Erupts
- Pac-Man Video Game Released
- Rubik's Cube Becomes Popular
- Ted Turner Establishes CNN
1981
- Assassination Attempt on the Pope
- Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan
- First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
- Millions Watch Royal Wedding on T.V.
- New Plague Identified as AIDS
- Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM
1982
- E.T. Movie Released
- Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina
- King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose Raised After 437 Years
- Michael Jackson Releases Thriller
- Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075 Couples at Madison Square Garden
- Vietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington, DC
1983
- Cabbage Patch Kids Are Popular
- Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star Wars
- Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space
- Soviets Shoot Down a Korean Airliner
- U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed
1984
- Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India
- Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by Two Bodyguards
- PG-13 Movie Rating Created
1985
- Famine in Ethiopia
- Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered
- Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika
- New Coke Hits the Market
- Wreck of the Titanic Found
1986
- Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes
- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
- Ferdinand Marcos Flees the Philippines
- Iran-Contra Scandal Unfolds
- U.S. Bombs Libya
- U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station
1987
- DNA First Used to Convict Criminals
- Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Sentenced to Life in Prison
- New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black Monday"
- West German Pilot Lands Unchallenged in Russia's Red Square
1988
- Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie
- U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner
1989
- Berlin Wall Falls
- Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on Coastline
- Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square
- U.S. President Bush Announces That He Doesn't Like Broccoli
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Art movements of the 1970's
Post-Modernism
"Postmodernism is a range of conceptual frameworks and ideologies that are defined in opposition to those commonly associated with ideologies of modernity and modernist notions of knowledge and science, such as formalism, materialism,metaphysics, positivism, realism, reductionism, and structuralism. Postmodernism is not a philosophical movement, but rather a number of philosophical and critical methods. In other words, postmodernism is not a method of doing philosophy, but rather a way of approaching traditional ideas and practices in non-traditional ways that deviate from pre-established superstructural modes. This has caused difficulties in defining what postmodernism means and it therefore remains a controversial concept."
Sculpture
Claes Oldenberg
Richard Serra
Earth Art
Robert Smithson
Conceptual Art
Jenny Holtzer
Feminist Art Movement
Judy Chicago
Video Art
Nam June Paik
Graffiti
Keith Haring
Jean-Micheal Basquiat
Music/Sound art
John Cage
Architecture
Sears Tower
John Hancock building
Transamerica Pyramid
World Trade Center
"Postmodernism is a range of conceptual frameworks and ideologies that are defined in opposition to those commonly associated with ideologies of modernity and modernist notions of knowledge and science, such as formalism, materialism,metaphysics, positivism, realism, reductionism, and structuralism. Postmodernism is not a philosophical movement, but rather a number of philosophical and critical methods. In other words, postmodernism is not a method of doing philosophy, but rather a way of approaching traditional ideas and practices in non-traditional ways that deviate from pre-established superstructural modes. This has caused difficulties in defining what postmodernism means and it therefore remains a controversial concept."
Sculpture
Claes Oldenberg
Richard Serra
Earth Art
Robert Smithson
Conceptual Art
Jenny Holtzer
Feminist Art Movement
Judy Chicago
Video Art
Nam June Paik
Graffiti
Keith Haring
Jean-Micheal Basquiat
Music/Sound art
John Cage
Architecture
Sears Tower
John Hancock building
Transamerica Pyramid
World Trade Center
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Welcome to the 1970's
1970
- Aswan High Dam Completed
- Beatles Break Up
- Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
- Palestinian Group Hijacks Five Planes
- Kent State Shootings
1971
- London Bridge Brought to the U.S.
- United Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency
- VCRs Introduced
1972
- M*A*S*H T.V. Show Premiers
- Mark Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals
- Pocket Calculators Introduced
- Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
- Watergate Scandal Begins
1973
- Abortion Legalized in U.S.
- Paul Getty Kidnapped
- Sears Tower Built
- U.S. Pulls Out of Vietnam
- U.S. Vice President Resigns
1974
- Halie Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Deposed
- Mikhail Baryshnikov Defects
- Patty Hearst Kidnapped
- Terracotta Army Discovered in China
- U.S. President Nixon Resigns
1975
- Arthur Ashe First Black Man to Win Wimbledon
- Civil War in Lebanon
- Microsoft Founded
- Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia
1976
- First Ebola Virus Outbreaks Strike Sudan and Zaire
- Nadia Comaneci Given Seven Perfect Tens
- North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000
1977
- Elvis Found Dead
- Miniseries Roots Airs
- South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death
- Star Wars Movie Released
1978
- First Test-Tube Baby Born
- John Paul II Becomes Pope
- Jonestown Massacre
1979
- Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of Iran
- Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran
- Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
- Mother Teresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island
- Sony Introduces the Walkman
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Art movements of the 50's and 60's
Pop Art
"Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In Pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it."
wikipedia
Jasper Johns - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Andy Warhol - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Robert Rauschenberg - wikipedia - artcylopedia - google images
Roy Lichtenstein - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Norman Rockwell (not officially "pop") - wikipedia
Assemblage
"Assemblage is an artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects."
wikipedia
Joseph Cornell - wikipedia - google images
Louise Nevelson - wikipedia - google images
Minimalism
"Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post–World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s."
wikipedia
Donald Judd - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
John McCracken - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Anne Truit - wikipedia - google images
Frank Stella - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Architecture
Charles and Ray Eames - wikipedia - google images
Mies Van Der Rohe - wikipedia - google images
Performance Art
"In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any venue or setting and for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work."
wikipedia
Joseph Beuys - wikipedia - google images
Allan Kaprow - wikipedia - google images
Conceptual Art
"Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.[1] This method was fundamental to LeWitt's definition of Conceptual art, one of the first to appear in print:
wikipedia
Joseph Kosuth - wikipedia - google images
Sol Lewitt - wikipedia - google images
"Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In Pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it."
wikipedia
Jasper Johns - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Andy Warhol - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Robert Rauschenberg - wikipedia - artcylopedia - google images
Roy Lichtenstein - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Norman Rockwell (not officially "pop") - wikipedia
Assemblage
"Assemblage is an artistic process. In the visual arts, it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects."
wikipedia
Joseph Cornell - wikipedia - google images
Louise Nevelson - wikipedia - google images
Minimalism
"Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. As a specific movement in the arts it is identified with developments in post–World War II Western Art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s."
wikipedia
Donald Judd - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
John McCracken - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Anne Truit - wikipedia - google images
Frank Stella - wikipedia - artcyclopedia - google images
Architecture
Charles and Ray Eames - wikipedia - google images
Mies Van Der Rohe - wikipedia - google images
Performance Art
"In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or via media; the performer can be present or absent. It can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body, or presence in a medium, and a relationship between performer and audience. Performance art can happen anywhere, in any venue or setting and for any length of time. The actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work."
wikipedia
Joseph Beuys - wikipedia - google images
Allan Kaprow - wikipedia - google images
Conceptual Art
"Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions.[1] This method was fundamental to LeWitt's definition of Conceptual art, one of the first to appear in print:
| “ | In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. | ” |
—Sol LeWitt[2]
| ||
wikipedia
Joseph Kosuth - wikipedia - google images
Sol Lewitt - wikipedia - google images
Welcome to the 1950's
1950
- First Modern Credit Card Introduced
- First Organ Transplant
- First "Peanuts" Cartoon Strip
- Korean War Begins
- Senator Joseph McCarthy Begins Communist Witch Hunt
- U.S. President Truman Orders Construction of Hydrogen Bomb
1951
- Color TV Introduced
- South Africans Forced to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race
- Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan, Officially Ending WWII
- Winston Churchill Again Prime Minister of Great Britain
1952
- Car Seat Belts Introduced
- The Great Smog of 1952
- Jacques Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship
- Polio Vaccine Created
- Princess Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25
1953
- DNA Discovered
- First Playboy Magazine
- Hillary and Norgay Climb Mt. Everest
- Joseph Stalin Dies
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage
1954
- Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman
- First Atomic Submarine Launched
- Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer
- Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile
- Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
1955
- Disneyland Opens
- Emmett Till Murdered
- James Dean Dies in Car Accident
- McDonald's Corporation Founded
- Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat on a Bus
- Warsaw Pact Signed
1956
- Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan's Show
- Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco
- Hungarian Revolution
- Khrushchev Denounces Stalin
- Suez Crisis
- T.V. Remote Control Invented
- Velcro Introduced 19
1957
- Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat
- European Economic Community Established
- Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age
- Laika Becomes the First Living Animal to Enter Orbit
1958
- Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize
- Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward"
- Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian
- Hula Hoops Become Popular
- LEGO Toy Bricks First Introduced
- NASA Founded
- Peace Symbol Created
1959
- Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba
- International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve
- Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev
- The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway
- U.S. Quiz Shows Found to be Fixed
Welcome to the 1960's
1960
- Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Released
- Brazil's Capital Moves to Brand New City
- First Televised Presidential Debates
- Lasers Invented
1961
- Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Berlin Wall Built
- Peace Corps Founded
- Soviets Launch First Man in Space
1962
- Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall
- Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
- Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring
1963
- Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique
- JFK Assassinated
- Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech
1964
- Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
- Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion
- Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.
- Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure
- Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
- Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued
- Gulf of Tonkin
1965
- Japan's Bullet Train Opens
- Los Angeles Riots
- Malcolm X Assassinated
- New York City Great Blackout
- U.S. Sends Troops to Vietnam
1966
- Black Panther Party Established
- Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution
- Mass Draft Protests in U.S.
- Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
1967
- Australian Prime Minister Disappears
- Che Guevara Killed
- First Heart Transplant
- First Super Bowl
- Six-Day War in the Middle East
- Stalin's Daughter Defects
- Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
1968
- Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
- My Lai Massacre
- Prague Spring
- Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
- Tet Offensive
1969
- ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet, Created
- Charles Manson and "Family" Arrested
- Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
- Rock-and-Roll Concert at Woodstock
- Senator Edward Kennedy Leaves the Scene of an Accident
- Sesame Street First Airs
- Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO
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