Painting in the XXth century: Individual Manifestations

Minimalism

• Developments in Post-War II.
• Work stripped down to its most fundamental features.
• Origin: New York 1960.
• Reaction against Abstract Expressionism: Art was not self expression

Features

• Geometric and cubic forms purged of all metaphor.
• Equality of parts.
• Repetition.
• Neutral surfaces.
• Industrial materials
  

Painters

• Piet Mondrian (geometric abstraction painter)
• Frank Stella (American – 1936)
  Stripe paintings.
  Picture as object rather than as a representation of something.
  Wide range of colours.
  Variety of materials:metal, wood, aluminum)
  
  
  

Mondrian

Frank Stella

Sculptor
Tony Smith. (1912 – 1980)

• American sculptor, visual artist, and a noticed theorist on art.
• Simple geometrical modules combined on a three-dimensional grid.

Tony Smith

NEO-EXPRESSIONISM

• Emerged in the late 1970s in Europe as a reaction against the conceptual and minimalist art of the 1970s.
• Portrayed of recognizable objects such as the human body in a rough and violently emotional way.
• Use of vivid colours and banal colours harmonies.

ARTISTS

• Robert Combas (1957. France)

• Remi Blanchard

• Herve Di Rosa (France)

• Kenny Scharf (1958. America)

• Enzo Cucchi (1949. Italy) Key member of the Italian Transvaguardia movement
  

Robert Combas-Peal Harbour-1988

• Kelly D Williams (American artist, designer, and writer/poet)
• Miquel Barcelo (1957. Spain.) Violent brushtrokes and stern image.
• David Salle(1952. America.)Yuxtaposed images or images painted on top of each other.
  Subject matter: the popular, the gratuitous, and the pornographic, combined in ways that appeared deliberately incomprenhensible. Sources of images: magazines, stock photographs and pornography.
  
  

Williams

Barcelo

Salle

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

• American artist. 1960-1988.
• Graffiti artist and Neo–expressionist artist.
• Three broad styles:
• Earliest period(1980-1982) Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting skeletal figures and mask-like faces. Other imaginery: automobiles, buildings, police, children’s sidewalk games and graffiti.
• Middle period(1982-1985) featured multipanel paintings and individual canvases with exposed stretcher bars, the surfaces denses with writing, collage and seemingly unrelated imagery.
• Final period (1986 to his death). New type of figurative depiction, in a new style with different symbols and content from new sources.


• QUOTES:


• “Every single line means something.”


• “Believe it or not, I can actually draw.”


• “I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.”


• “I don´t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.”
  
  
  
  

Work done by Diana Martínez, for the subject Language and Culture 2