June 22
Introduction
"What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion."
- Marcel Duchamp

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Contemporary Art and the beautiful Center for the Arts Building A!

 

 

 

 

An introduction to the material we will be considering...

 

Autumn Rhythm

Jackson Pollock. Autumn Rhythm (Number 30). 1950.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Seasons

Lee Krasner. The Seasons. 1957. 7 3/4' X 17'.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woman and Bicycle

Willem de Kooning. Woman and BicycleI. 1952 - 1953.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Odalisk

Robert Rauschenberg. Odalisk. 1955-58.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just What Is It

Richard Hamilton. Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? 1956.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andy Warhol. Gold Marilyn. 1962.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yoko Ono. Cut Piece. 1965.
Newhall, Edith. "A Long and Winding Road." ARTnews. October 2000: 162 -165.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Untitled

Donald Judd. Untitled. 1967.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. April, 1970.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Running Fence

Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Running Fence. 1972-76.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dinner Party

Judy Chicago. The Dinner Party. 1974 - 79.
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Third edition. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles the First

Jean-Michel Basquiat. Charles the First. 1982.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #6. 1979.
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Third edition. New York: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tilted Arc

Richard Serra. Tilted Arc. 1981.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Myra

Marcus Harvey. Myra. 1995.  9' X 11'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cremaster 4

Matthew Barney. CREMASTER 4. The Loughton Candidate. 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walton Ford.  Fallen Mias.  2000.
Katz, Alex.  Walton Ford: Tigers of Wrath, Horses of Instruction.  New York:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc.  2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your instructor will take a conversational approach that intends to stimulate all learning styles

Georgia O'Keefe. Radiator Building at Night. 1927.

During our dialogue, students are encouraged to ask questions, ponder and share
Those who are open and willing to participate will excel
and we will learn this provocative material together
so let's begin our converstaion...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dictionary definition = the quality, production or expression of what is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance

Mona Lisa

Leonardo. Mona Lisa. c. 1503.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

 

 

 

 
Art for Dummies definition = art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is it ART?

 

 

Claude Monet. Impression: Sunrise. 1872.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still Life with Basket of Apples

Paul Cezanne. Still Life with Basket of Apples. 1890 - 94.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still Life with Chair Caning

Pablo Picasso. Still Life with Chair Caning. 1911 - 12.
Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages. (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996) Tenth ed., 1049.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bird in Space

Constantin Brancusi. Bird in Space. 1928?
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Piss Christ

Andres Serrano. Piss Christ. 1987.
Hirsch, Robert. Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holy Virgin Mary

Chris Ofili. The Holy Virgin Mary. 1996.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams Inc., 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louise Bourgeois. Blind Man's Bluff. 1984.

As artists began to challenge the status quo and redefine art for themselves, a new vocabulary/ language was also needed to understand the things they were making and calling "art"
During this semester, we will be learning this language
and most importantly, how to use it to understand modern and contemporary works of art made after WWII.
It should be lots of fun!!!