Modern Life
Americana
Post Modern
AbEx
Contemporaries
100
This movement, though it addressed the black experience in the US, at times drew inspiration from modernism

Harlem Renaissance

100

Thomas Hart Benton belongs to this movement

Regionalism 

100

Warhol used this replicable technique often

Silkscreen

100

This Chinese artist was inspired by traditional Chinese literati techniques as well as AbEx

Wu Guanzhong

100

This author reveals the complexity of the notion of a 'Western culture'

Appiah

200

This American movement was against the influence of European modernism in American art

Regionalism

200

This artist addressed the Great Migration in his works

Jacob Lawrence

200

In a spoof on Pollock, in a way, Warhol created abstract paintings out of this material

Urine

200

This term refers to the movements and gestures of painters like Jackson Pollock

Action painting

200

This public medium, popularized by artists like Aaron Douglas, Thomas Hart Benton, and Diego Rivera, is commonly used still today

Mural

300

This 1913 show introduced modernism to NYC

The Armory Show
300

This government-funded program helped employ artists after the Great Depression

WPA Federal Art Project
300

This land-based piece might be called 'earthworks'

Smithson's Spiral Jetty

300

Chicago, against the machismo of AbEx, co-curated this exhibit with her students

Womanhouse

300

As one of the pioneers of street art, this artist addressed African-American stereotypes in his work

Basquiat

400

There was a large show on this American AbEx painter at MOMA in the 1950s

Jackson Pollock

400

Pollock's technique of painting on the ground around all sides of the canvas was inspired, in his words, by this indigenous art form

Navajo sand painting

400

This artist focused on concept rather than form in his piece defining a chair in three ways

Joseph Kosuth

400

This art critic hailed AbEx as the latest and greatest movement in modern art

Clement Greenberg

400

This 1980 art show was considered a watershed for the contemporary art scene in New York

the Times Square Art Show in 1980

500

This AbEx painter used gesture and brushstroke to emit feelings, as in the 1957 painting 'Ladybug'

Joan Mitchell

500

Diego Rivera included this political theorist in his mural on Mexican history

Karl Marx

500

Carolee Schneemann called her bodily movement-based performance art this term

Kinetic theater

500

A less gestural expressive form of abstraction occurred after AbEx, coined as....

post-painterly abstraction

500

Ofili, part of this group of artists, was a much protested artist in the Brooklyn Sensation exhibition.

YBA (Young British Artists)

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