Contemporary Art (Art UIL)

Contemporary Art

(1950-Present)

Info: Contemporary Art

• During this period of history, the world became more and more connected due to globalization.

• While all these changes were taking place, artists were using their work to grapple with these new and strange times.

• Movements like Abstract Expressionism, the Harlem Renaissance, and Pop Art came out of New York during this period

• Contemporary art can be characterized by a shift towards abstraction. Many artists during this period stopped painting pictures of specific subjects and instead painted totally abstract compositions—paintings of pure color, shapes, and lines

Rothko-

Untitled

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Info: Untitled

Wyeth-

That Gentleman

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Info: That Gentleman

Thiebaud-

Cakes

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Info: Cakes

Neel-

Hartley

• Painting is loose, the colors and lines are expressive, and the brushstrokes have not been hidden.

• Dorothy Pearlstein is a portrait of a friend of Neel’s.

• Neel wasn’t interested in capturing the woman’s beauty, but rather, her humanity.

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• Neel didn’t think of her paintings as portraits, preferring to call them “pictures of people.”

• Neel was not idealizing her subjects when she painted portraits. Her ambition was to freeze time and capture the person as they really were in that moment.

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Info: Hartley

Kiefer-

Zim Zum

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Info: Zim Zum

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Jasper

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Info: Jasper