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Terms

Abstract Expressionism

Cubismo Colorblockingo Flatness

Surrealismo Automatic drawingo No reason, no aestheticso Taps into subconscious thoughts

Primitive people are thought to be closer to their subconscious Existentialism

o Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartreo Existence precedes essenceo One can exert existence through action

Action is imperativeo Counter to Surrealism

Sublimeo Emmanuel Kant and Edmund Burkeo Expression of beauty and terror simultaneouslyo Inconsequential nature of man and great power of nature

Abstract Expressionismo Painterly Surrealismo Flattened surfaceo Autographic gestureso Universal themes

Chromatic / Colorfield Painting Action Painting

o Rothko o Pollocko Newman o Gorky

o Colorfield Seeks to free color. Color is just color Red =/= tomato or fire engine

Gestural/Action Paintingo Paintings as participatory activityo All-over painting

In, on, with the painting Pollock

o Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollock New Classicism

o Nudes, contrapostto, natural landscapeBeat Generation

Beato Beaten downo Beatific / beautitudeholiness of everything, spiritual aspecto 1stAmerican counterculture: rebellious, non-conformisto Immediacy, spontaneity, blurring lines between high/middle/low brow

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o Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsbergo Coded language

Assemblage artists/workso Assembling found objects into 3D or 2Do Rauschenberg, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Connor

Combine paintingRauschenberg specificallyArte Informale et Arte Brute

Arte Informale / Arte Autreo Paralleled Abstract Expressionismo Form is less important than impulses of artist, non-rationalo Gestural, abstract, unformed, shapelesso Non-traditional materialso Signage

Alberto Burri Decalcumania

o Ernst, Europe After the Rain IIo Element of chance, things that the artist cannot control

Arte Bruteo Primitive is authentico Logic and reasonwar, thus return to primitivism and subconsciouso Intentionally child-like naivet

Dada Neo-DadaPost-Painterly Abstraction

Two brancheso Pollock-iancontinue action paintingo Post-Painterly Abstraction

Influenced by nature Large-scale abstraction Role of chance and actions that the artist cannot control

Medium specificityo Clement Greenberg

Painting should strive to be become just paintingo Painting becomes more flat (Helen Frankenthaler)

Gestural painting, horizontal plane (Pollock-inspired)o Veil painting (Morris Louis)

Hard edge paintingo Reinhardt, opposite of Frankenthalero Crisp sharp lines that the artist has full control over

Deductive structureo Agnes Martin, Frank Stellao Re-inscribe the frame of the canvaso The canvas / medium dictates the art that result, artist has no control

Washington Color School

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o Kenneth Nolando Morris Louiso Gene Daviso Push-pull painting

Opticalityo Flatness, elemental shapeso Kenneth Noland

One-shot paintingo Understandable at the first glance, instantaneous receptiono Illusion of depth is created by ones eyeo Kenneth Noland, Virginia Site

Fluxus Movement

Fluxus Pop Art Silk screening Image transfer Ben Day dots Kitschmass-consumed products Conceptual Art

o The artist can make it (or not make it)o The work can be prefabricated (or originally made)o The work can be built (or not built)

Minimalismo Dematerialization of arto Deductive structurereinscribing

Frank Stella, Astoria Earthworks

o Strenuous departure from art processo Manipulating nature, artists are intervening in the landscapeo Creating works not likely to be commoditizedo Pushing outside the constraints of the gallery space

Post-Minimalism Arte Povera

o Italian movement, nationalistic bent, recalls Italys agrarian history Misinterpretation of American Minimalism as being pro-technology

o Strong emphasis of return to nature and inspiration from natureo Use of lowly materials (i.e., concrete, wood) and organic materialso Promotes art that exists outside the commoditized world of the art gallery

Thought that interest in commoditiescomplicit in US economy complicit in USpolitical actions as well Mami figure Phrenologypseudoscientific study of relationship between skull anatomy and behavioral and

intellectual characteristics

o Geometric Abstractionreclaiming womens crafts and tasks (i.e., sewing, quilting)