ahtr art since 1950 (part i)

Art Since 1950 Part I

Terms

Abstract Expressionism (The New York School)Action Painters/Color Field or Color Imagists

AssemblageBenday Dots

Carl JungClement Greenberg

EnvironmentsExistentialism

Gutai Happenings

Hard Edge PaintingHarold Rosenberg

John CageMinimalism

Pop ArtPost-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)