MODERN ART
MODERN ART
Art of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Known for it’s diversity of styles, none of which clearly
dominated the art world.
Based on largely on ideas and concepts rather than merely on execution and realism.
Georgia O’Keeffe
American painter, known for her realistic paintings of
flowers and cow skulls
Married to celebrated photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who
discovered her.
Lived most of her life in
Sometimes made the objects look abstract by showing them in
extreme close up.
Cow Skull- Red, White and Blue Red Canna
White Trumpet Flower
George Tooker
Focused on the paranoia and fear of everyday modern
life.
Created paintings which were considered Surreal because of
their dreamlike quality.
Often showed repeated figures to suggest the reoccurring
images of a nightmare.
Government Bureau The Subway
Roy Lichtenstein
Created paintings that looked like comic book panels.
Along with Andy Warhol, was one of the leaders of Pop Art
in the 1960’s.
Like all other Pop Artists, tried to show the
superficiality of modern
Tried to make real life events, even war scenes--seem
trivial by rendering them in a comical manner.
Used stenciled Benday dots to make his paintings appear
mass-produced.
Nurse Good Morning…Darling WHAAM!
Chuck Close
Began his career doing photo-realistic
portraits that were up to ten feet tall.
Stated that he painted the photos of people, not actual people.
Tried to de-emphasize the personality
of his models, instead focusing on detail.
Due to damage to his spinal cord, woke
one day to almost complete paralysis.
Now uses a wheelchair and a forklift
to complete each painting.
Working on a grid, Close spends one
year on each painting,
Considers each small square of his
grid paintings to be its own individual abstract painting.
Bill
Self-Portrait Mark Lucas II
M.C. Escher
Popular illustrator, created trick
images, such as waterfalls that flow uphill and staircases that lead back to
where they begin.
Often created images from the negative
space created by other figures in the layout.
Is often studied in high school and
college math classes because of the precise and invariable nature of his work.
Relativity
Waterfall
Reptiles Sky and Water