Gold Rush- Anarchist movement of 40s; - Beat and Free Speech movements of 50/60s; - Counterculture of Haight-Ashbury; - Multitude of alternative lifestyles - Lifestyle laws…. - Smoke free environments- Nuke free zones- Ethanol in gasoline- Right to Die law passed this week
Funk art fits right in!
Bruce Conner 1933-2008– Couch 1963
Edward Kienholz b 1927-1994 – Backseat Dodge ‘38 - 1964
RobertRauschenberg
1925-2008
Bed1959
Jasper Johns b1930 – Flag 1954
Andy Warhol1928-1987
Self Portrait1985
Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997
Step on Can with Leg
1961
Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997Little Big Painting 1965
Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997 – BLAM! 1962
Walter Keane1915-2000
Wide-Eyed Waifs
Margaret Keane b1927
Margaret Keane’s portrait of Joan Crawford
Wayne Thiebaud b1920 – Cakes and Pies
Wyane Thiebaud
Girl with Ice Cream Cone1967
Wayne Thiebaud
Cityscape
David Hockneyb 1931
A Bigger Splash 1967
Mel Ramosb 1935
Batman and Robin1962
Mel Ramosb 1935
• 1953 – Kinsey Report Sexual Behavior
• 1954 – Segregation battles• 1955- Rebel Without a Cause • 1956 – Suez Canal Crisis • 1956 - USSR crushes Hungarian
uprising• 1959 – Khrushchev visits US• 1961 – West Side Story• 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis• 1962 – Joan Baez and Bob
Dillon• 1963 – Kennedy and King
assassinated• 1964 – The Beatles• 1967 – first heart transplant• 1969 – Woodstock
1969 - Walk on Moon
Allan Kaprow 1927-2006 – Household, 1964Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Art journey …- the traditional painting has been reduced- no more a window on world- no walking into the painting - no paintings of people, flowers, landscapes- changed from objective to subjective- thick paint with deep emotions of artists- to thin, flat, not touched by artist
Jennifer Bartlett b 1941In the Garden (Monet’s) 11x34 feet
Jennifer Bartlett b 1941 – Boats 1978
Marcel Duchamp (left) with brothersJacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon