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Philip Guston [ 1913 – 1980 ]
 New York School painter
 Overhauled his painting style and
starting using representational
imagery
 Made huge wall-sized paintings of
his anxieties; paintings that are like
cartoons or caricatures
 Simple, narrow wood frame
paintings
 Process of making the painting is
correlated to his emotional intensity
 Drawn towards Abstract
Expressionism when he settled in
New York in the late 1940s.
 Evolved an abstract art
characterized by warm clouds of red
hatch-marks floating over formless
white mists.
Bad Times by Philip Guston, oil on Couple in Bed by Philip Guston, oil on
canvas, 1970, 182.9 x 289.6 cm (72 x canvas, 1977, 206.2 x 240.3 cm (81 1/8 x
114 in.) 94 5/8 in.)
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Jasper Johns [ 1930 – Present ]

 Abstract Expressionism Artist
 Heralded a new appreciation of
objects
 Art is focused on objects taken
from the mundane world
 Paint and sculpt targets,
toothbrushes, beer cans and even
his own artist’s brushes
 Highly emotive, content-free,
and intellectualized abstract art
 Flag (1955) by Jasper Johns
Flag was completed using the anachronistic medium of
encaustic in which pigment is mixed with hot wax and, in Flag’s
case, strips of newspaper and fabric to which the colored
encaustic adhered.
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Robert Rauschenberg [ 1925-
2008 ]
 Help define the sensibility
emerging as a counterforce
 Studied at Black mountain
College
 Influenced by John Cage who
encourage experiments
combining music, drama, dance,
and art.
 Experimented combine
paintings
 Combined assortment of
elements
Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, 1955–59. Oil, paper, fabric,
printed reproductions, metal, wood, rubber shoe-heel, and
tennis ball on two conjoined canvases with oil on taxidermied
Angora goat with brass plaque and rubber tire on wood
platform mounted on four casters. Moderna Museet,
Stockholm. Purchase 1965 with contribution from The Friends
of Moderna Museet
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Andy Warhol [ 1925-2008 ]
 Became notorious for his
paintings of soup cans, soap
boxes, cola bottles, and other
throwaway detritus of our
society
 His name is synonymous
with Pop Art ( Art of Popular
Culture)
 Turned his attention away
from painting and toward
printmaking, etc.
 Subjects tended to be the
celebrities of film and the
social world.
 Prince of Pop Art
Gold Marilyn Monroe (1962) Campbell's Soup I (1968)
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Frank Stella [ 1936- 2010 ]
 American painter, sculpture
and printmaker

 Artists continued to explore

color-field painting with great
verve

 Explored more formal

elements with carefully drawn
“hard edges,” primary colors, and
geometrically precise
compositions
Frank Stella, 1976: 'BMW 3.0 CLS Frank Stella, 1976: detail of 'BMW 3.0
car-painting' - info: The BMW 3.0 CLS car-painting'
CSL (Art Car) is the second car of
the BMW Art Cars, painted by
Frank Stella in 1976. This car ran
at the 1976 24 Hours of Le Mans
with carrying the number '41'
Frank Stella, THE AFFIDAVIT, 1993