Art 1 Lecture 7

"We felt the moral crisis of a world in shambles, a world devastated by a great depression and a fierce World War, and it was impossible at that a time to paint the kind of painting that we were doing - flowers, reclining nudes, and people playing the cello. At the same time we could not move into the situation of a pure world of unorganized shapes and forms, or color relations, a world of sensation. And I would say that, for some of us, this was our moral crisis in relation to what to paint. So that we actually began, so to speak, from scratch, as if painting were not only dead but had never existed." - Barnett Newman

Dialogue with Europe

	"We felt the moral crisis of a world in shambles, a world devastated by a great depression and a fierce World War, and it was impossible at that a time to paint the kind of painting that we were doing - flowers, reclining nudes, and people playing the cello. At the same time we could not move into the situation of a pure world of unorganized shapes and forms, or color relations, a world of sensation. And I would say that, for some of us, this was our moral crisis in relation to what to paint. So that we actually began, so to speak, from scratch, as if painting were not only dead but had never existed." - Barnett Newman
	Reminder - Quiz 1 will be made available on Moodle Thursday evening!
Alberto Giacometti. Walking Man. 1960. http://z.about.com/d/arthistory/1/0/H/m/mcgb_raa_1208_04.jpg

Learning Communities
Please form groups of five

Front row	Thomas Hart Benton	Lee Krasner

Row 2	Willem De Kooning	Norman Lewis

Row 3	Marcel Duchamp	Grace Hartigan

Row 4	Helen Frankenthaler	Robert Motherwell

Row 5	Arshile Gorky	Jackson Pollock