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."

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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."


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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."


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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 artperformance 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."


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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]

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Joseph Kosuth -  wikipedia - google images

Sol Lewitt - wikipedia - google images






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