Movement and Style California Art & Beyond

OLLI - CLASS 2

Exploding Into

Modern

Linda Loveland Reid

John Baldessarib 1931

Nose

John Baldessarib 1931

Two Highrises(with disruptions

Two Witnesses (Red and Green)

1990

Clyfford Still, Abstract Expressionism - David Parks, Figurative

Joan Brown 1938-1990Girl Sitting 1962

Joan Brown 1938-1990 Model with Manual’s Sculpture 1961

Joan Brown 1938-1990

After Swim to Alcatraz

1975

Joan Brown 1938-1990

Obelisk, San Francisco

Manual Neri b 1930

Sam Francis 1923-1999 – Self Portrait

Sam Francis 1923-1999 – Middle Blue 1957

The Irascible 18 - 1950

Robert Motherwell 1915-1991 – Elegy to Spanish Republic #34, 1954

Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011

Helen Frankenthaler 1928-2011 – Mountain and Sea 1952

Jackson Pollock 1912-1956 and Lee Krasner 1908-1984

Lee Krasner 1908-1984Cornucopia 1958

Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell 1925-1992

Willem de Kooningb 1904-1997

Woman (series)

Willem de Kooningb 1904-1997

Willem & Elainede Kooning

Standing Bull 1957by Elaine

Elaine de Kooning 1918-1989Portrait of JFK 1963

Mark Rothko 1903-70

Allen Ginsberg 1926-97

Jack Kerouac & Allen GinsbergLawrence Ferlinghetti

Jess (Collins) 1923-2004

Robert Duncan1919-1988

Wally Hedrick (1928-2003)

SF Art Institute

Burn Me!1990

Jay DeFeo, Wally Herick, Joan Brown – Six Gallery

Jay DeFeo1938-90

The Rose

• Bruce Conner talks about DeFeo’s Rose

• http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/311

Robert Arneson1930-1992

Robert Arneson1930-1992 – Funk

John 1964

Individualism and Nonconformity In Bay Area

Gold Rush- Anarchist movement of 40s; - Beat and Free Speech movements of 50/60s; - Counterculture of Haight-Ashbury; - Multitude of alternative lifestyles - Lifestyle laws…. - Smoke free environments- Nuke free zones- Ethanol in gasoline- Right to Die law passed this week

Funk art fits right in!

Bruce Conner 1933-2008– Couch 1963

Edward Kienholz b 1927-1994 – Backseat Dodge ‘38 - 1964

RobertRauschenberg

1925-2008

Bed1959

Jasper Johns b1930 – Flag 1954

Andy Warhol1928-1987

Self Portrait1985

Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997

Step on Can with Leg

1961

Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997Little Big Painting 1965

Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997 – BLAM! 1962

Walter Keane1915-2000

Wide-Eyed Waifs

Margaret Keane b1927

Margaret Keane’s portrait of Joan Crawford

Wayne Thiebaud b1920 – Cakes and Pies

Wyane Thiebaud

Girl with Ice Cream Cone1967

Wayne Thiebaud

Cityscape

David Hockneyb 1931

A Bigger Splash 1967

Mel Ramosb 1935

Batman and Robin1962

Mel Ramosb 1935

• 1953 – Kinsey Report Sexual Behavior

• 1954 – Segregation battles• 1955- Rebel Without a Cause • 1956 – Suez Canal Crisis • 1956 - USSR crushes Hungarian

uprising• 1959 – Khrushchev visits US• 1961 – West Side Story• 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis• 1962 – Joan Baez and Bob

Dillon• 1963 – Kennedy and King

assassinated• 1964 – The Beatles• 1967 – first heart transplant• 1969 – Woodstock

1969 - Walk on Moon

Allan Kaprow 1927-2006 – Household, 1964Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Yoko Ono b1933 – Cut Piece 1964

Chris Burdenb 1946

TransfixedVenice, California

1974

Chris Burden – Shoot 1971

Chris Burden - Urban Light 2009

Chris Burden – Metropolis II 2011

Bruce Nauman b 1941 - Fountain

Bruce Nauman b1941 – Carousel 1988

Barnett Newman1905-1970

Onement, 1, 1948

KazimirMalevich

1878-1935

Suprematism1916

Ad Reinhardt1913-67

Ultimate c.1955

Rules- No texture- no drawing-no design- no light

- no space- no size

- no movement- no object

Donald Judd1928-1994

StacksSFMOMA

Donald Judd 1928-1994 - 100 Aluminum Boxes (1982-86)Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX

John Baldessarib 1931

What Is Painting?

Art journey …- the traditional painting has been reduced- no more a window on world- no walking into the painting - no paintings of people, flowers, landscapes- changed from objective to subjective- thick paint with deep emotions of artists- to thin, flat, not touched by artist

Jennifer Bartlett b 1941In the Garden (Monet’s) 11x34 feet

Jennifer Bartlett b 1941 – Boats 1978

Marcel Duchamp (left) with brothersJacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Marcel Duchamp1887-1968

Etant Donnes1946-68“Given”