Art 1 Lecture 8

July 8
In the Nature of Materials

Robert Arneson. John with Art. 1964.	"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art." - Susan Sontag
	Assignments Due: Worksheets #7 & #8 Reminder: Exhibition Review/ Community #3 due on Tuesday Extra Credit Opportunity! Earn 10 points with proof of attendance Julien Schnabel Artist Talk MOCA Sunday, July 11 @ 3 pm Free with museum admission, but arrive early!!!

Blam

Roy Lichtenstein. Blam. 1962.

Structuralism = philosophical approach that analyzes society by looking at cultural phenomena, particularly signs, that have hidden underlying meanings that can be decoded

Roy Lichtenstein
1923 - 1997

Big Painting VI

Roy Lichtenstein. Big Painting VI. 1965.
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art 1945 - 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Drowing Girl

Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl. 1963.

Drowing Girl

Drowning Girl detail.

Benday dots = printing process that uses two or more solid colored dots that the eye combines to create another color

Masterpiece

Roy Lichtenstein. Masterpiece. 1962. Oil on canvas.
Getlein, Mark. Gilbert's Living With Art. Sixth edition. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2002.

Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl. 1963.	James Rosenquist. The Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy, Gift Wrapped doll #8. 1992.

Despite their popular imagery, Pop artists betray an interest in formal aesthetics
Large scale makes representational images abstract-like
Allover compositions
Slick technique emphasizes the flatness of the picture plane

James Rosenquist
1933 -

"We are attacked by radio and television and visual communications…at such a speed and with such a force that painting…now seems very old-fashioned…why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact." - James Rosenquist

I Love You with My Ford

James Rosenquist. I Love You with My Ford. 1961. 82" X 93".
Lobel, Michael. "Sign Language." Artforum. October 2003: 127.

F-111

James Rosenquist. F-111. 1965. 10' X 86'.
http://www.digitalmediatree.com/library/image/12/enlarge_65_01_opt.jpg

F111 installed

F-111 installed
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/finch2/Images/finch11-15-2.jpg

Coop's Parts with Appeal

West Coast Pop

a.k.a. California Funk movement

funk = bad smelling

California Funk movement defined by Berkeley University's Art Museum Director, Peter Selz as being "hot rather than cool, committed rather than disengaged, bizarre rather than formal, sensuous and frequently quite ugly."
Andy Warhol. Gold Marilyn Monroe. 1962.	Ed and Nancy Kienholz. Birthday. 1964.

Ed Kienholz
1927 - 1994

Roxy's

Ed Kienholz. Roxy's. 1961.
http://kunst.gymszbad.de/zab2006/ts-1/kienholz/kienholz-roxys-1961-xl.jpg

Installation art = art that uses sculptural materials and other media to modify a particular space. It is not necessarily confined to a gallery or museum space and often incorporates the viewer into the work.

Illegal Operation

Ed Kienholz. The Illegal Operation. 1962.
http://noskoff.lib.ru/pina/KIENHOLZ/illegal_operation_1962.jpg

The State Hospital

Edward and Nancy Kienholz. The State Hospital (exterior). 1966.
Upshaw, Reagan. "Scavenger's Parade." Art in America. October 1996: 98 -107.

The State Hospital

Edward and Nancy Kienholz. The State Hospital (interior). 1966.
Upshaw, Reagan. "Scavenger's Parade." Art in America. October 1996: 98 -107.

The State Hospital

Ed Kienholz. The State Hospital tableau. 1966.
Upshaw, Reagan. "Scavenger's Parade." Art in America. October 1996: 98 -107.

First retrospective of Kienholz's work at LACMA in 1966

Back Seat Dodge

Ed Kienholz. Back Seat Dodge '38. 1964.
http://noskoff.lib.ru/pina/KIENHOLZ/back_seat_dodge_1964.jpg

Nouveaux Realistes (New Realism)	Arman. Large Bourgeois Refuse. 1960.
French equivalent to Neo Dada and Pop Art

Sought a "passionate adventure of the real"
Wanted to bring art and life closer together

Shooting Picture

Niki de Saint Phalle. Shooting Picture. 1961.
http://www.tate.org.uk/images/cms/13776w_shootingpicture300dpi.jpg

De Saint Phalle making a shooting painting

Niki de Saint Phalle creating a shooting picture
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dCVZ3U_lipU/SSxrKGM2bUI/AAAAAAAAMX8/eLp-js5J3DA/s400/Niki-de-Saint-Phalle_fusil.jpg

Yves Klein
1928 - 1962

IKB 3

Yves Klein. IKB 3. 1960.
Weitemeier, Hannah. Klein. Koln: Taschen, 2001.


Yves Klein. Le Vide (The Void). April 28, 1958.

After leaving the exhibition, Albert Camus responded, "With the void, comes total empowerment."

Leap Into the Void

Yves Klein. Leap into the Void. 1960.

One Day Newspaper

Yves Klein. Single Day Newspaper. November 27, 1960.
Hopkins,David. After Modern Art 1945 - 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Living Paint Brushes

Yves Klein. Performance: Anthropometries de l-epoque bleue. 1960.

Anthropometry

Yves Klein. "Living Paint Brush" painting. 1960.
http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/8/0/Yves-Klein-Anthropometry--Ant-130-1960-80120.jpg

Anthropometry

Yves Klein. Anthropomometry. 1960.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_ESC4bygtp2M/SAVX2g0lq3I/AAAAAAAADVA
/QXpAjhQqatA/s400/Klein+Anthropometry.jpg

Robert Arneson. Jackson Pollock. 1983.
http://comtogether.com/art/miscpix/pollock.htm

Postmodernism = name for many stylistic reactions to, and developments from, modernism. Postmodern style is often characterized by eclecticism, digression, collage, pastiche, and irony. Postmodern art is seen as a reversal of well-established modernist systems, such as the roles of artist vs. audience, seriousness vs. play, or high culture vs. kitsch.