1. OPERATION URGENT FURY II

2. Monday 4/25/16 The Bay Marilyn Diptych
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
Narcissus Garden
Spiral Jetty
House in New Castle County

3. COLOR FIELD PAINTING
Color Field Painting lacks the aggression of Abstract Expressionism
Color Field painters poured paint onto unprimed canvases
Painting is simply pigment on a flat surface

4. (#149) THE BAY Helen Frankenthaler, The Bay, 1963, acrylic on canvas
Painted directly on unprimed canvas
Uses a runny paint sometimes thinned with turpentine
Accentuates the two-dimensionality of the canvas
Part of the avant-garde New York School at mid-century

5. POP ART 1950’s-1960’s
Pop, or Popular Art gathered momentum in the 1950’s and then reached it’s climax in the 1960’s.
Draws on materials of the everyday world -> items of mass popular culture like consumer goods, comics, celebrities
Pop art saw no distinction between “high” art and mass-produced items
Glorifies and magnifies the commonplace
It is generally thought that Pop Art is a reaction against Abstract Expressionism

7. Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962, oil, acrylic, silkscreen enamel on canvas
Screen printing photographic images onto backgrounds of rectangular shapes
Repeated imagery drains the image of Monroe of meaning -> another mass produced object
Fifty repeated images from a film still from a movie, Niagara
Cult of celebrity
Left side represents life/embalmed body and right side represents death/ghost
Mass production of art, culture, icons
(#147) MARILYN DIPTYCH

8. (#150) LIPSTICK (ASCENDING) ON CATERPILLAR TRACKS
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Claes Oldenburg, , cor-ten steel, aluminum, and cast resin, painted with polyurethane enamel
First installed at Beinecke Plaza at Yale in 1969
Intended as a platform for public speakers; rallying point for anti-Vietnam era protests
Erected secretly
Tank shaped platform base with lipstick ascending = anti-war symbolism
Male and female forms unite -> themes of death, power, desire, and sensuality
Sculpture made of inexpensive and perishable material -> later replaced with permanent materials
First monumental sculpture by Oldenburg

9. “HAPPENINGS” late 1950’s-1960’s
The word “happening” was coined in the late 1950’s to describe an act of performance art that is initially planned, but involves spontaneity, improvisation, and often audience participation
Today -> flash mobs, improv theatre, and performance art

11. Narcissus Garden, Yayoi Kusama, first seen in 1966, installation of mirrored balls, Venice
Internationally renowned Japanese-born artist
One of the foremost innovators of Happenings
1500 large, mirrored, stainless steel balls placed on a lawn under a sign that said “your Narcissism for Sale”
Artist offered balls for sale for $2 each as a commentary on the commercialism and vanity of the current art world
The ancient myth of Narcissus
Installation has been exhibited in many places around the world, both in water and in dry places
NARCISSUS GARDEN

12. SITE ART or EARTH ART 1970’s - today
Sometime called Earth Art, Site Art is dependent on its location to render full meaning. Often works of Site Art are temporary. Other times the works remain, but need the original environment intact in order for it to be fully understood.

14. Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson, 1970, mud, salt crystals, rock, water coil, Great Salt Lake, Utah
Man-made coil of rock in a remote and inaccessible area of the Great Salt Lake
Artist used a tractor with native stone to create the jetty
Coil is an image seen in North American earthworks, cf. Serpent Mound, Ohio
SPIRAL JETTY

15. POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE late 1970’s-1980’s
Postmodern architecture emerged in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Saw the International Style as cold and removed from the needs of cities with their cosmopolitan populations
Postmodernists see nothing wrong with incorporating ornament, traditional architectural expressions, and references to past styles in a modern context
Image to the right is Philip Johnson’s AT&T building competed in > a rejection of the modernist glass box

16. HOUSE IN NEW CASTLE COUNTY: EXTERIOR
House in New Castle County, Delaware, Robert Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott Brown, , wood frame and stucco
House designed for a family of three
Post-modern mix of historical style
Venturi famously commented on the International Style -> “Less is a bore.”