1970s in art
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The 1970s is the fault line between Modern art, which started in the late 19th century, and contemporary art, which lasts until today.
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Iconic works
- Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson
- Office Baroque by Gordon Matta-Clark
Painting
As a response to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, new movements such as lyrical Abstraction, Fluxus and Postminimalism sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting and Minimalism by focusing on process, new materials and new ways of expression.
Postminimalism often incorporating industrial materials, raw materials, fabrications, found objects, installation, serial repetition, and often with references to Dada and Surrealism is best exemplified in the sculptures of Eva Hesse. Lyrical Abstraction, Conceptual Art, Postminimalism, Earth Art, Video, Performance art, Installation art, along with the continuation of Fluxus, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, Hard-edge painting, Minimal Art, Op art, Pop Art, Photorealism and New Realism extended the boundaries of Contemporary Art in the mid-1960s through the 1970s.
Lyrical Abstraction shares similarities with Color Field Painting and Abstract Expressionism especially in the freewheeling usage of paint - texture and surface. Direct drawing, calligraphic use of line, the effects of brushed, splattered, stained, squeegeed, poured, and splashed paint superficially resemble the effects seen in Abstract Expressionism and Color Field Painting. However the styles are markedly different.
During the 1960s and 1970s painters as powerful and influential as Adolph Gottlieb, Phillip Guston, Lee Krasner, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn, Josef Albers, Elmer Bischoff, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Sam Francis, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Frank Stella, Joan Mitchell, Friedel Dzubas, and younger artists like Brice Marden, Robert Mangold, Sam Gilliam, Sean Scully, Elizabeth Murray, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Susan Rothenberg, Ross Bleckner, Richard Tuttle, Julian Schnabel, and dozens of others produced vital and influential paintings.
Deaths
- 1979 in art - Death of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Peggy Guggenheim
- 1978 in art - Death of Norman Rockwell
- 1977 in art - Death of Charles Alston, Lee Miller, Naum Gabo
- 1976 in art - Death of Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Paul Strand, Mark Tobey, Josef Albers, Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham
- 1975 in art - Death of Thomas Hart Benton
- 1974 in art - Death of Adolph Gottlieb
- 1973 in art - Death of Pablo Picasso, Edward Steichen, Stanton MacDonald-Wright, the first Whitney Biennial
- 1972 in art - Death of Joseph Cornell
- 1971 in art - Death of I. Rice Pereira
- 1970 in art - Birth of Jenny Saville, Death of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Eva Hesse
Movements
- Arte Povera
- Ascii Art
- Bad Painting
- Body art
- Artist's book
- Feminist art
- Installation art
- Land Art
- Lowbrow (art movement)
- Photorealism
- Postminimalism
- Process Art
- Video art
- Funk art
- Pattern and Decoration
