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Robert Smithson was an American artist famous for his land art works. His most famous work was Spiral Jetty, a 1,500 foot long spiral shaped jetty extending into Utah's Great Salt Lake constructed from rocks, earth, salt and algae. Smithson developed the concepts of "sites" and "non-sites" where a site was an outdoor artwork and a non-site could be displayed indoors, such as photographs from the outdoor site alongside materials from that location. He was interested in entropy, maps and aerial photos as ways to document sites.
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Week 12 Lecture, 20th Century
Minimalism emerged as an art movement in the 1960s that aimed to dismantle illusionism and focus on the inherent properties of materials. Artists like Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Dan Flavin created simple sculptures and structures using industrial materials. Around the same time, Conceptual art developed with works centered around ideas rather than aesthetic forms, inspired by Duchamp's readymades. Site-specific artworks of the period engaged with natural environments on a large scale, with works by Robert Smithson and Michael Asher sited outdoors.
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Famous painters
Pablo Picasso was a highly influential 20th century Spanish painter and sculptor who co-created Cubism. He donated a 50-foot high public Cubist sculpture called The Chicago Picasso to the people of Chicago.
Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in 1475 in Caprese, Italy. His famous sculpture the Pietà depicts the Virgin Mary holding the body of Jesus and stands out from all other works on the same subject.
Constantin Brancusi was a Romanian sculptor who pioneered abstraction in sculpture. He created simplified forms and is renowned for works like The Kiss from 1916 which reduced natural forms to near geometric simplicity
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The document summarizes the emergence and evolution of major art movements in New York City following World War II. It describes how the New York School of abstract expressionism arose as European artists immigrated to New York during the war. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko developed new styles of abstract expressionism using techniques like action painting and color field painting. In the 1960s, new movements like pop art, conceptual art, and op art emerged, experimenting with popular culture, ideas over objects, and optical illusions.
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Minimalism
Minimalism describes art movements that strip works down to their most fundamental forms. Minimalist art from the 1960s-1970s uses simple geometric shapes, industrial materials, and is purged of metaphor. Key minimalist artists include Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Frank Stella, Carl Andre, and Robert Morris, who were influenced by composers John Cage and LaMonte Young. Donald Judd's sculptures used simple cubes and planes to explore space, while Agnes Martin's grid paintings combined spirituality and minimalism.
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The document discusses German artist Gerhard Richter and how his artistic style was influenced by many different movements due to restrictions under the communist East German regime. It notes that he was initially trained in traditional realist painting but was later exposed to abstract art in West Germany, which introduced a more expressive approach. While his work incorporated elements from various styles, it also maintained a surrealist quality and focus on capturing the essence rather than realistic imitation of subjects.
Art Time Line
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Eric Zener is a self-taught American painter known for photorealist paintings of people interacting with water. Francis Bacon was an Irish painter known for his emotionally raw figurative paintings set against flat backgrounds. Pablo Picasso was a highly influential Spanish painter and sculptor who helped develop Cubism. The second paragraph discusses Gustav Klimt, an Austrian symbolist painter known for his erotic paintings. The third paragraph is about Jason deCaires Taylor, a British underwater photographer and sculptor who creates sculptures to install on coral reefs.
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