art history 2009 class 9 lecture

Jackson Pollock

Action Painting: A visual choreography ofan artist’s interaction with paint and color.This is a presentation; not representation.

Jackson Pollock Lavender Mist

Rothco

A myth maker who proclaimedthat the only valid subjectmatter is that which is tragic.

“Without monsters and gods,art cannot enact a drama.”Rothco

Space

Form

Color

Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110

De Kooning Woman

Reshaping post-war frustrations with a newexpressive vision.

De Kooning Gotham News

Hoffman The GateReason vs. Intuition

Color: Its Interaction & Expressive Qualities.

Albers Homage to the Square

Familiarity breeds…?

Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup

Pop Art

Claes Oldenburg HamburgerQuality control!

Oldenburg Eraser Soft Bathtub

Seeing the familiar in an unfamiliar way.

Jasper Johns American FlagLet’s run it up the flagpole and see how it flies.Contemporary Iconographics

Thiebaud Three Machines Illustration or fine art?

Why Three?

Bridget Riley Movement In Squares

OP Art

Albers Homage To The Square

1 + 1 = 3

Nelson Homage To Albers

Learning Never Ends Albers

Vasarely Optical Illusion Is permanence a factor in art?

Ralph Goings Ralph’s Diner

Photo-Realism It’s all an illusion

When paint mimicsphotos which mimicoptical reality… (literally speaking.)

Chuck Close A synthesis of Pointillism, Photo-Realism, Op and Intuitive Dedication..

Close…..UP!

Christo

Conceptual Art:EnvironmentalTransformation(Now there’s a thought!)

Art: Anobservation

Art and plants thrive in fertile soil. For some, art is onlythere for the picking. They plant and harvest endlessly,with little thought of replenishing or rotating the crop.

But there are those artists and patrons who replenish, andin so doing, harvest a crop rich in both tradition and insight.Their soil encourages new growth and a mutation of endlessvarieties of new visual and tactile experiences.

And then there are those who plant a new variety of seedwhich germinates to become esoteric concepts. Their soilbears abundant fruit, rich in verbal, philosophical, socialand political pronouncements for a chosen few. This cropis not a feast for the eye or touch of a hand, for suchqualities are no longer recognized by these authors or theirsupporters.

Visual/tactile art is not literature, music or dance. Whatmakes it unique is its ability to communicate visual ideas.When the visual/tactile experience no longer serves as theprimary means of communicating, it may be an art form, butone whose definition serves another master.

© 2009Richard Nelson

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