Art Since 1950 Part I
Terms 
Abstract Expressionism (The New York School) 
Action Painters/Color Field or Color Imagists 
Assemblage 
Benday Dots 
Carl Jung 
Clement Greenberg 
Environments 
Existentialism 
Gutai 
Happenings 
Hard Edge Painting 
Harold Rosenberg 
John Cage 
Minimalism 
Pop Art 
Post-painterly Abstraction 
Proto-Pop (Neo-Dada)
We felt the moral crisis of a world in 
shambles, a world destroyed by a 
great depression and a fierce World 
War, and it was impossible at that 
time to paint the kind of paintings 
that we were doing—flowers, reclining 
nudes, and people playing the cello. 
–Barnett Newman
Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), 1950. (source)
Willem de Kooning, Woman, 1950–1952. (source)
Frederick Church, Twilight in 
the Wilderness, 1860. 
(source) 
Mark Rothko, Ochre and 
Red on Red, 1954. 
(source)
Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimus, 1950–1. (source)
Alberto Giacometti, Man Pointing, 
1947. (source) 
Francis Bacon, Figure with Meat, 
1954. (source)
Helen Frankenthaler, Canyon, 
1965. (source) 
Ellsworth Kelly, Blue Green Red, 
1963. (source)
Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1950 
(Lavender Mist), 1950. (source) 
Hans Namuth, Jackson 
Pollock in his studio, 1950. 
(source)
Kazuo Shiraga, painting with his feet during the 
2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Tokyo 1956. (source) 
Kazuo Shiraga, Unititled, 
1957. (source)
Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 
1955. (source) 
Robert Rauschenberg, 
Monogram, 1954-59. (source)
Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954–1955. (source)
Allan Kaprow, Yard, 
1961. (source) 
Allan Kaprow, Yard, 
1961. (source)
Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn, 1962. 
(source) 
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1967. 
(source)
Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's 
homes so different, so appealing?, 1956. (source)
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962. (source)
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1964. (source)
Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam!, 1963. (source)
Claes Oldenburg, Floor Burger, 1962. (source)
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1966–68. (source)
Robert Morris, L-Beams, 1965. (source)

AHTR Art Since 1950 (Part I)