Modern Master Techniques

Picasso

(1920’s)

Collage Technique

Kurt Schwitters

1919

Assemblage Technique

Max Ernst

Assemblage Technique

Two Children Frightened by a Nightingale (1924)

Max Ernst’s

Zoomorphic Couple

(1933)

Decalcolmania Technique

Max Ernst’s The Spanish Physician (1940) (Decalcomania Technique)

Max Ernst

Napoleon in the Wilderness (1941)

Decalcomania

Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm (1950) (Abstract Expressionist Technique)

Helen

Frankenthaler

(1960’s)

Post-painterly abstraction

Helen Frankenthaler

(1960’s)

Post-painterly abstraction

“There is no formula. There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.”

Robert Rauschenberg

Coca Cola Plan

1958

(Neo-Dada)

Robert Rauschenberg

Gift For Apollo

1959

Gerhard Richter

German

1990’s-2000’s

(Late Modern/Post-modern)

Elizabeth Murray

(1990’s)

Late Modern/Postmodern

What makes a painting Postmodern in this context?

Pablo Picasso

Seated Bather (1930)

(A Modernist painter)

Elizabeth Murray

Picasso’s

Girl Before a Mirror

(1932)

Elizabeth Murray

Postmodern

Picasso

The Women of Avignon

1907

Pia Fries (Swiss, 2008) Postmodern

Barry McGee (1990’s to now)

Barry McGee

Slanguage

(2012)

The former Holmes-Eureka Mill Site (Devil’s Playground)

Modern Master Technique

(Student work)

Modern Master Technique

(Student work)

Modern Master Technique

(Student work)

Modern Master Technique

(Student work)

Now for the demo…