Contemporary Art
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abstract Expressionism | The first major American avant-garde movement, emerged in New York City in the 1940s. The artists produced abstract paintings that expressed their state of mind and that they hoped would strike emotional chords in viewers. |
| Color Field Painting | A variant of Post-Painterly Abstraction in which artists sought to reduce painting to its physical essence by pouring diluted paint onto unprimed canvas and letting these pigments soak into the fabric, as exemplified by the work of Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis. |
| Combine | The name American artist Robert Rauschenberg gave to his assemblages of painted passages and sculptural elements |
| Conceptual Art | An American avant-garde art movement of the 1960s whose premise was that the "artfulness" of art lay in the artist's idea rather than its final expression. |
| Formalism | Strict adherence to, or dependence on, stylized shapes and methods of composition. An emphasis on an artwork's visual elements rather than its subject. |
| Gestural Painting | Also known as action painting. A kind of abstract painting in which the gesture, or act of painting, is seen as the subject of art. |
| Hard Edge Painting | A variant of Post-Painterly Abstraction that rigidly excluded all reference to gesture and incorporated smooth knife-edge geometric forms to express the notion that painting should be reduced to its visual components. |
| Minimalism | A predominantly sculptural American trend of the 1960s characterized by works featuring a severe reduction of form, often to single, homogeneous units. |
| Performance Art | An American avant-garde art trend of the 1960s that made time an integral element of art. It produced works in which movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating with an audience replace physical objects. Documentary photographs are generally the only evidence remaining after these events. |
| Pop Art | A term coined by British art critic Lawrence Alloway to refer to art, first appearing in the 1950s, that incorporated elements from consumer culture, the mass media, and popular culture, such as images from motion pictures and advertising. |
| Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle, 1952-53 Abstract Expressionism |  |
| Jackson Pollock, (Number I), 1950 Lavender Mist Abstract Expressionism |  |
| Franz Kline, (Chief), 1950 Abstract Expressionism |  |
| Mark Rothko, (No. 18), 1948 Abstract Expressionism |  |
| Francis Bacon, (Study after Velazquez: Pope Innocent X), 1953 The European Scene and Post-Painterly Abstraction |  |
| Barnett Newman, (Vir Heroicus Sublimus), 1950-51 The European Scene and Post-Painterly Abstraction |  |
| Helen Frankenthaler, (Mountains and Sea), 1952 The European Scene and Post-Painterly Abstraction |  |
| Frank Stella, (New Madrid), 1961 The European Scene and Post-Painterly Abstraction |  |
| Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-55 Pop Art |  |
| Robert Rauschenberg, (Bed), 1955 Pop Art |  |
| Christo and Jeanne Claude, (Surrounded Islands), 1980-83 Pop Art |  |
| Roy Lichtenstein, (Hopeless), 1963 Pop Art |  |
| James Rosenquist, (F-111), 1964-65 Pop Art |  |
| Andy Warhol, (Marilyn Monroe Diptych), 1962 Pop Art |  |
| Joseph Beuys, (How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare), 1965 Pop Art |  |
| Yoko Ono, (Cut Piece), 1965 Pop Art |  |
| Tony Smith, (Die), 1962 Sculpture, Minimalism, Conceptual and Environmental Art |  |
| Victor Vasarely, (Vega), 1957 Sculpture, Minimalism, Conceptual and Environmental Art |  |
| Sol LeWitt, (49 Three-part Variations), 1967-70 Sculpture, Minimalism, Conceptual and Environmental Art |  |
| Joseph Kosuth, (One and Three Chairs), 1965 Sculpture, Minimalism, Conceptual and Environmental Art |  |
| Robert Smithson, (Spiral Jetty), 1969-70 Sculpture, Minimalism, Conceptual and Environmental Art |  |
| Richard Serra, (Tilted Arc), 1981 Sculpture, Minimalism, Conceptual and Environmental Art |  |
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