1950s in art
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| + | In the early 1950s [[Jackson Pollock]] and [[Willem de Kooning]] were enormously influential. However by the late 1950s [[Barnett Newman]] and [[Mark Rothko]]'s paintings became more in focus to the next generation. | ||
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| + | [[Pop Art]] used the [[iconography]] of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising. With its roots in [[dadaism]], it started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some European artists started to make the symbols and products of the world of [[advertising]] and [[propaganda]] the main subject of their artistic work. This return of [[figurative art]], in opposition to the abstract expressionism that dominated the aesthetic scene since the end of World War II was dominated by Great Britain until the early 1960s when [[Andy Warhol]], the most known artist of this movement began to show Pop Art in galleries in the United States. | ||
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| [[Abstract expressionism]] was the first [[art movement]] specifically [[American art|American]] to gain worldwide influence, was responsible for putting [[New York City]] in the centre on the artistic world, a place previously owned by [[Paris, France]]. This movement acquired its name for combining the [[German expressionism]]'s emotional intensity with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as [[Futurism]], [[Bauhaus]] and [[Synthetic Cubism]]. [[Jackson Pollock]] was one of the most influential painters of this movement, creating famous works such as [[No. 5, 1948]]. | [[Abstract expressionism]] was the first [[art movement]] specifically [[American art|American]] to gain worldwide influence, was responsible for putting [[New York City]] in the centre on the artistic world, a place previously owned by [[Paris, France]]. This movement acquired its name for combining the [[German expressionism]]'s emotional intensity with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as [[Futurism]], [[Bauhaus]] and [[Synthetic Cubism]]. [[Jackson Pollock]] was one of the most influential painters of this movement, creating famous works such as [[No. 5, 1948]]. | ||
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| '''[[Color Field]]''' painting and [[Hard-edge painting]] followed close on the heels of [[Abstract expressionism]], and became the idiom for new abstraction in painting during the late 1950s. The term ''second generation'' was applied to many abstract artists who were related to but following different painterly directions than the earliest abstract expressionists. In the early 1950s [[Jackson Pollock]] and [[Willem de Kooning]] were enormously influential. However by the late 1950s [[Barnett Newman]] and [[Mark Rothko]]'s paintings became more in focus to the next generation. | '''[[Color Field]]''' painting and [[Hard-edge painting]] followed close on the heels of [[Abstract expressionism]], and became the idiom for new abstraction in painting during the late 1950s. The term ''second generation'' was applied to many abstract artists who were related to but following different painterly directions than the earliest abstract expressionists. In the early 1950s [[Jackson Pollock]] and [[Willem de Kooning]] were enormously influential. However by the late 1950s [[Barnett Newman]] and [[Mark Rothko]]'s paintings became more in focus to the next generation. | ||
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| '''[[Pop art]]''', with its roots in [[dadaism]] started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some artists, after studying symbols and products of the world of [[propaganda]] in the United States, started to make them the main subject of their artistic work. That way, they used the most ostensive components of [[popular culture]], with powerful influence in the daily life of the second half of the 20th century. It was the return of a [[figurative art]], in opposition to the abstract expressionism that dominated the aesthetic scene since the end of World War II. Pop art used [[iconography]] of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising. [[Andy Warhol]] was the most known artist of this movement, and in spite of it having initiated in the 50s, its most famous works date of the later decade. | '''[[Pop art]]''', with its roots in [[dadaism]] started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some artists, after studying symbols and products of the world of [[propaganda]] in the United States, started to make them the main subject of their artistic work. That way, they used the most ostensive components of [[popular culture]], with powerful influence in the daily life of the second half of the 20th century. It was the return of a [[figurative art]], in opposition to the abstract expressionism that dominated the aesthetic scene since the end of World War II. Pop art used [[iconography]] of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising. [[Andy Warhol]] was the most known artist of this movement, and in spite of it having initiated in the 50s, its most famous works date of the later decade. | ||
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In the early 1950s Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were enormously influential. However by the late 1950s Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko's paintings became more in focus to the next generation.
Pop Art used the iconography of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising. With its roots in dadaism, it started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some European artists started to make the symbols and products of the world of advertising and propaganda the main subject of their artistic work. This return of figurative art, in opposition to the abstract expressionism that dominated the aesthetic scene since the end of World War II was dominated by Great Britain until the early 1960s when Andy Warhol, the most known artist of this movement began to show Pop Art in galleries in the United States.
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Abstract expressionism
Abstract expressionism was the first art movement specifically American to gain worldwide influence, was responsible for putting New York City in the centre on the artistic world, a place previously owned by Paris, France. This movement acquired its name for combining the German expressionism's emotional intensity with the anti-figurative aesthetic of the European abstract schools such as Futurism, Bauhaus and Synthetic Cubism. Jackson Pollock was one of the most influential painters of this movement, creating famous works such as No. 5, 1948.
Color Field
Color Field painting and Hard-edge painting followed close on the heels of Abstract expressionism, and became the idiom for new abstraction in painting during the late 1950s. The term second generation was applied to many abstract artists who were related to but following different painterly directions than the earliest abstract expressionists. In the early 1950s Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were enormously influential. However by the late 1950s Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko's paintings became more in focus to the next generation.
Pop art
Pop art, with its roots in dadaism started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some artists, after studying symbols and products of the world of propaganda in the United States, started to make them the main subject of their artistic work. That way, they used the most ostensive components of popular culture, with powerful influence in the daily life of the second half of the 20th century. It was the return of a figurative art, in opposition to the abstract expressionism that dominated the aesthetic scene since the end of World War II. Pop art used iconography of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising. Andy Warhol was the most known artist of this movement, and in spite of it having initiated in the 50s, its most famous works date of the later decade.
Events
- 1959 in art - Birth of Caio Fonseca, Death of Frank Lloyd Wright, Sir Jacob Epstein
- 1958 in art - Frank Stella begins Black Pinstripe Paintings
- 1957 in art - Death of Diego Rivera, Jack Butler Yeats
- 1956 in art - Death of Jackson Pollock
- 1955 in art - Death of Fernand Léger, Nicolas de Staël, Bradley Walker Tomlin; Birth of Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns completes Flag, (American Flag Painting)
- 1954 in art - Death of Henri Matisse, André Derain, Frida Kahlo, Birth of David Wojnarowicz
- 1953 in art - Death of John Marin
- 1952 in art - Jackson Pollock paints Blue Poles, and Number Twelve (damaged by fire in the Governors Mansion, Albany, NY in 1961) an influential and large-scale, colorful stain painting that predicts both Color field painting and Lyrical Abstraction
- 1951 in art - Death of Wols, Birth of Jack Spencer, Willem de Kooning paints Woman I, the Ninth Street Show of 1951, NYC. A seminal event of Abstract Expressionism.
- 1950 in art - Jackson Pollock paints Autumn Rhythm
