KEY WORKS
This 1962 work by Warhol turned an everyday kitchen item into high art.
What is Campbell’s Soup Cans?
This American artist is known for dripping paint and was promoted as a symbol of freedom.
Who is Jackson Pollock?
This philosophical outlook, associated with Harold Rosenberg’s view of Pollock, asserts life has no inherent meaning, yet one must act.
What is existentialism?
This war's aftermath shaped the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in the U.S.
What is World War II?
Minimalist works often use these geometric forms to explore space.
What are cubes?
Pollock’s Full Fathom Five (1947) takes its name from this Shakespearean reference.
What is a line from The Tempest about death and transformation?
This Dutch-American painter created Woman I, a frightening, anti-idealized female figure.
Who is Willem de Kooning?
In Pop Art, artists like Warhol challenged this by isolating and repeating familiar images like soup cans and Elvis.
What is the culture of mass media or image circulation?
The CIA supported Pollock’s exhibitions abroad as a metaphor for this political ideal.
What is freedom / democracy during the Cold War?
This quality of Pollock’s canvases makes it hard to find a focal point.
What is all-over composition or lack of central focus?
This Japanese work from 1955 consists of an artist tearing through paper.
What is Laceration of Paper by Murakami Saburo?
This French abstractionist used an easel and avoided Pollock's chaotic scale.
Who is Pierre Soulages?
The Japanese Gutai group emphasized this kind of engagement with materials, as in “Challenge to the Mud."
What is full bodily (or physical) engagement / abjection?
These new American appliances in the 1950s, like toasters and fridges, symbolized this postwar phenomenon.
What is consumer affluence / domestic prosperity?
In Blue Poles (1952), Pollock creates rhythm across the canvas using this type of visual structure.
What are vertical bars / poles (possibly like musical notation)?
This 1960 painting by Frank Stella shares its title with Hitler’s favorite marching song.
What is Die Fahne Hoch!?
This Japanese Gutai artist painted with his feet and mud.
Who is Shiraga Kazuo?
TJ Clark critiqued American Abstract Expressionism for this bourgeois fascination with glittery, industrial materials.
What is vulgarity or the allure of glamour and consumerism?
Gutai art emerged partly as a reaction to the devastation of this wartime event
What is the atomic bombing of Japan in WWII?
This Italian artist slashed canvases to draw attention to the space behind them.
Who is Lucio Fontana?
Made in 1962, this minimalist sculpture by Tony Smith shares its name with a singular of “dice.”
What is Die?
This British pop artist created Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? in 1956.
Who is Richard Hamilton?
Minimalist artists like Robert Morris emphasized this philosophical approach to how bodies experience space.
What is phenomenology?
According to TJ Clark, this French philosopher argued that modern America is like a theme park.
Who is Jean Baudrillard?
In Minimalism, Sol LeWitt’s grid-based works reduce this aspect to a bare minimum.
What is the artist’s personal touch / mystique of creation?