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Significant Dates
Key Concepts
Artists
Theoreticians
100
"I am Nature."
Who is Jackson Pollock?
100
Andy Warhol starts using the silkscreen printing technique and has his first solo show (at the Ferus Gallery in LA).
What is 1962?
100
Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam
What is COBRA?
100
Developed a theory that concerned spatial dynamics and visual tensions generated by vibrant colors applied onto a canvas.
Who is Hans Hofmann?
100
"What was to go on on the canvas was not a picture but an event."
Who is Harold Rosenberg in "The American Action Painters," 1952, Art News?
200
"The main thing wrong with painting is that it is a rectangular plane placed flat against the wall."
Who is Donald Judd?
200
1939-1945
When was WWII?
200
International movement formed in 1962.
What is Fluxus?
200
Born in Germany. Pilot during WWII. Rescued by Tartars.
Who is Joseph Beuys?
200
American critic who saw popular culture as a Capitalist propaganda tool.
Who is Clement Greenberg?
300
"The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."
Who is Sol LeWitt?
300
1967
When did Sol LeWitt write "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art?"
300
"Concrete Art Group"
What is Gutai?
300
Explored sound and silence in the piece 4 minutes and 33 seconds (1952)
Who is John Cage?
300
"The artist can correct the sense ratios before the blow if new technology has numbed conscious procedures. He can correct them before numbness and subliminal groping and reaction begin."
Who is Marshall McLuhan?
400
"I am interested in things which suggest the world rather than suggest the personality."
Who is Jasper Johns?
400
1960
When was le Nouveau Realisme launched by Yves Klein?
400
"An art whose blank, neutral, mechanical impersonality contrasts violently with the romantic, biographical Abstract Expressionism style which preceded it that spectators are chilled by its apparent lack of feeling or content."
What is Minimalism, as described by Barbara Rose in the article "ABC Art," 1965?
400
German-born Jewish artist who was only two years old when she and her sister fled to the United States.
Who is Eva Hesse?
400
French philosopher and art critic whose text "The Search for the Absolute" was published in 1948.
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
500
"An art historian is to an artist what an ornithologist is to a bird."
Who is Barnett Newman?
500
Term coined by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971.
What is Postminimalism?
500
Should take place over several widely spaced, sometimes moving and changing locales. Should be performed only once.
What are Happenings?
500
Tired of the commercial art world, this artist decided to leave the city and make ephemeral works in the desert.
Who is Michael Heizer?
500
Sign. Signifier. Signified.
Who is Ferdinand di Saussure?