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- Red, Blue, and Green
- Artist: Kelly
- Era: Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Techniques:
- hard edged color field painting
- three hues shaped by space that act with and against each other
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- Mas o Menos
- Artist: Stella
- Era: Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Techniques:
- no central focus
- diluted paint on un-primed canvas
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- Bay Side
- Artist: Frankenthaler
- Era: Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Techniques:
- allows color to just soak in
- colors fade into background
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- Mountains and Sea
- Artist: Frankenthaler
- Era: Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Techniques:
- water color - thinned oil paints
- coreographic flow of liquid shapes over canvas
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- Darted Again
- Artist: Gilliam
- Era: Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Techniques:
- collage amporphomus pieces
- soap stained canvas
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- Saraband
- Artist: Louis
- Era: Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Techniques:
- let paint flow down length of canvas
- paint reduced to concrete image of material fabric
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- Orion
- Artist: Vasarely
- Era: Post-Painterly Abstraction
- Techniques:
- creates shifts for the eye to constantly move from warm to cool hues
- some circles look smaller or larger because of color of square - optical illusion
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- Die
- Artist: Tony Smith
- Era: Minimal Art
- Techniques:
- lacks identifiable textures, subects, colors, or narrative elements
- reduces sculpture to basic geometric shape
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- Untitled, 1968
- Artist: Judd
- Era: Minimal Art
- Techniques:
- not one stands out from the rest
- repetition
- cubes dissolve as they reflect the environment around them
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- Untitled, 1969
- Artist: Judd
- Era: Minimal Art
- Techniques:
- attached on invisible brackets
- staccato techniques
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- Vietnem Memorial
- Artist: Maya Ying Lin
- Era: Minimal Art
- Techniques:
- black granite - symbolic of endurance
- polished granite creates reflection - viewer is amongst the lost
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- Tropical Garden II
- Artist: Nevelson
- Era: Alternatives to Modernist Formalism
- Techniques:
- wooden found objects and forms painted over
- rough geometrical structure
- different texture across piece
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- Camul I
- Artist: Bourgeois
- Era: Alternatives to Modernist Formalism
- Techniques:
- marble creates either a high glass or a matte finish which increases sexuality
- swattled forms
- human and landscape
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- Hang-Up
- Artist: Hesse
- Era: Alternatives to Modernist Formalism
- Techniques:
- strange feeler that extends into the viewers space
- suggests fragility and the grandeur of life admist the pressures of the modern age
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- Event Scores
- Artist: Brecht
- Era: Performance Art
- Techniques:
- no rehearsal or audience
- closest art can be to real life
- each card is an event that already happened
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- Making a Work with His Own Body
- Artist: Shiraga
- Era: Performance Art
- Techniques:
- uses body to paint with mud on ground
- throwing or wallowing actions to create patterns
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- Meat Joy
- Artist: Schneemann
- Era: Performance Art
- Techniques:
- "carcass as paint" -Schneemann
- raw fish, chicken, plastic, paint, and paper scraps
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- Iphigenia
- Artist: Beuys
- Era: Performance Art
- Techniques:
- one man show with small audience- acting as a shaman
- spotlighted tethered white horse stands on a metal plate - makes noise every time it moves
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- How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
- Artist: Beuys
- Era: Performance Art
- Techniques:
- appearing in a room hung with his drawings
- covered head with honey and gold leaf
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- Homage to New York
- Artist: Tinguely
- Era: Performance Art
- Techniques:
- performs and then self destructs
- set to go off at night - white against black sky
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- One and Three Chairs
- Artist: Kosuth
- Era: Conceptual Art
- Techniques:
- wooden folding chair, photograph of chair, and definition of a chair
- formal components aren't important
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- The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths
- Artist: Nauman
- Era: Conceptual
- Techniques:
- neon with glass tubing suspension frame
- medium identified with a non-artistic function
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