Modern Art

1. THE AMERICANS Modern Art

2. Georgia O’Keeffe • 1887 - 1986 Wisconsin • From a very young age, she said she would be an artist. • Painted until she lost her eyesight completely. • Distinctly American- she did not care what was going on in European Art. • Arguably the most influential female artist of the 20th century.

3. O’Keeffe - “Bones” Period • Characteristics of Work: • Bones symbolized the wild, wonderful nature of the west. • Cow skulls especially showed her audience the untamed, beautiful nature of the desert west. • More surreal style. • Examples of Influences in work: • She painted animal skulls in the works. Also, as in this case, the animal skull is floating in the air (not possible in real life, so it’s surreal). Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71awD38Qy4

4. O’Keeffe - “Flower” Period • Characteristics of Work: • Painted giant, detailed, almost surreal paintings of flowers • Innovative in using brilliant, bold colors with simple patterns and shapes. • Influences in her work: • She painted large, bright flowers. • Some considered her work controversial and sexual. • “I have painted what each flower I s to me and I have painted it big enough so that others would see what I see.” ---O’Keeffe Hibiscus with Plumeria

5. Metropolitan Museum of Art Black Iris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UonkqMuOZgM&sns=em

6. O’Keeffe - “Ghost Ranch” Period • O’Keefe went to the Ghost Ranch in Taos, New Mexico in 1930. • Characteristics of Work: • She fell in love with the barrenness and expanse of land uninterrupted and spoiled by humans. • She loved the feeling of the country’s symbols: life as a struggle, sadness, and resurrection. • Examples of Influences in work: • She painted landscapes that showed absolutely no human influence. Lake George

7. Jacob Lawrence • 1917 – 2000 New Jersey/New York • The best-known 20th Century African-American painter Self-Portrait (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfnYKbSQSVI

8. The Migration Series(panel #1 - 1940) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4lgvB5cV5E

9. The Migration Seriesmade him nationally famous in 1941; it depicts the great move north of blacks during the Great Depression  Interactive website: http://www.phillipscollection.org/migration_series/flash/experience.html

10. Dorothea Lange • 1895 – 1965 New Jersey • influential photojournalist • She was concerned with ordinary peoples’ situations • She first documentary images of Native Americans in the west in the 1920s. • In 1931, she was hired by the Farm Security Administration to document the migrant workers who were forced to move during the Dust Bowl days of the Great Depression. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eVem08OWhM

11. Migrant Mother(1936) • This photograph shows a migrant mother working at a pea-pickers camp in California, living in a make-shift tent, and looking longingly into the distance for her husband off fixing their broken down automobile. • This has become the symbolic image of the Great Depression. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1heTNwnJJ4&app=desktop

12. Jackson Pollock • 1912 – 1956 Wyoming • studied under Thomas Hart Benton before exploring abstraction expressionism via his splatter pieces. • Pollock was both renowned and critiqued for his conventions. • He died after driving drunk and crashing into a tree in New York in 1956, at age 44. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCEgtPAhtuo&app=desktop

13. Drip, or “splatter” paintings involved pouring paint and other media directly onto canvases. • WATCH: The movie portraying Pollock’s discovery of this technique--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_sPaW6veo

14. Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT0SHjOowLA&app=desktop

15. Mark Rothko • 1903 – 1970 Russia • In 1949 introduced a compositional format comprised of several vertically aligned rectangular forms set within a colored field. • In his large floating rectangles of color, which seem to engulf the spectator, he explored with a rare mastery of nuance the expressive potential of color contrasts and modulations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v1mBepDlOw

16. His classic paintings were characterized by these elements: - expanding dimensions - simplified forms - brilliant hues - thin washes of color. • WATCH: “How to Paint Like Rothko”--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSiu8qzHV6c

17. Orange and Tan (1954)

18. Andy Warhol • 1928-1987 Pittsburgh • Began career as a magazine illustrator. • Artist of the Pop Art movement: • Used the everyday items to make his art; using bold, flat colors to portray goods • Experimented with a wide variety of art forms--- performance, filmmaking, installations and writing. • blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream commercialism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VH5MRtk9HQ

19. Warhol appropriated (used without permission) images from magazines, newspapers, and press photos of the most popular celebrities of the time. • In 1964, Warhol opened his own art studio known as “The Factory” to reflect goods that were mass produced • “Once you “got” Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.” ---Andy Warhol • “The Factory” quickly became one of New York City's premier cultural hotspots, a scene of lavish parties attended by the city's wealthiest socialites and celebrities.

20. Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbOrNLcC0I