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Postwar Modern Movements in the West - Papers

Postwar Modern Movements in the West

Chapter 23: Postwar Modern Movements in the West

Jackson Pollock.
Autumn Rhythm. (Number 30). 1950.
Oil on canvas.
a. Dripping thin paint onto the canvas
b. Dripped, poured, and flung his paint
c. Action painting
d. Exercised control by rhythmical dancing movements

Mark Rothko.
Blue, Orange, Red. 1961.
Oil on canvas.
a. Able to use color to evoke moods
b. Superimposing thin layers of paint
c. Achieved variety qualities from dense to atmospheric to luminous
d. Sensuous appeal
e. Monumental presence

Robert Motherwell.
Elegy to The Spanish Republic NO. 34. 1953-1954.
Oil on canvas.
a. Tragic sense of history
b. Heavy black shapes crush and abliterate the ...

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Smith.
Cubi XVII. 1963.
Polished stainless steel.
a. Cubic masses and planes balanced dynamically above viewers eye
b. Scoured surfaces of the steel reflect light
c. Viewed outdoors in strong light
d. Set off by a green landscape

Aaron Siskind.
Chicago 4c. 1948.
Gelatin silver print.
a. Focused on walls and buildings
b. Isolating parts of the walls
c. Create an altogether new object
d. tattered urban wall turned into an abstract composition

Robert Rauschenberg.
Monogram. 1955-1959.
Freestanding combine.
a. Stuffed long haired angora goat
b. Standing in the middle of a collage-painting
c. Tire around its middle
d. Symbol for wild juxtapositions to modern life

Robert Rauschenberg.
Tracer. 1963.
Oil on silkscreen on canvas.
a. Photographic screen printing
b. Expressionist painting
c. Modified parts of art reproductions
d. Assembles the unrelated bits and pieces of everyday experience

Edward Kienholz.
John Doe. 1959.
Oil and paint ...

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