Introduction to US Art美国文化介绍.ppt

Introduction to American Art Topics for this course Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Colour field artists: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler, Pop artists: Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Feminist Artists: Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Realist Super Realist artists: Edward Hopper, George Segal, Robert Estes, Audrey Flack, Duane Hanson. Prior Knowledge check In pairs, write down the following: Major historical events Economic factors Significant leaders New ideas / philosophies Social / technological shifts Cultural developments of the United States of America 1930-1980. HISTORICAL CONTEXTEvents that influenced Modern American Art The Armory Show 1913 This exhibition introduced Americans to the European Avant Garde art – even though public was skeptical / scandalised! Featured major Post-Impressionists, Fauves, Cubists 1929 – opening of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) RIGHT: Marcel Duchamp’s Nude descending a Staircase and a parody from a newspaper, Seeing New York with a Cubist: the Reds descending a staircase Armory Show highlights Works such as these created an artistic renaissance in America. US artists were exposed to new styles and approaches. LEFT Matisse Luxury II (1908) ABOVE Picasso Woman with Pepper Pot (1910) Great Depression 1929 – Great Depression. Destruction of the carefree life during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. Artists began to look internally for inspiration This led to an interest in Surrealism – art of dreams and fantasy; removed from terrors of reality Precisionism - 1930sAmerica becomes more industrialized Precisionism (1929-1935) aka Cubist Realism Style: Crisp, linear, flat planes, hard edged Themes: Industrialization, Modernization E.g. Charles Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold (1928), inspired by the poem “The Great Figure,” by Williams Carlos Williams 1930s: Arrival of Diego Rivera and Mexican