FAH246H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ad Reinhardt, Lithography, Sudbury Star
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10/24/12 find, copy, paste, look at each artwork or you fucking fail. The gesture in the 1950s: from autographic expression to the evacuation of the personal. Returned to it with a huge assertiveness; here, we have modernism turning on itself: de. Kooning returns back to a staple of western art, the nude. He has no real part to the nude but he revisits it in a non-traditional way. Now, in contemporary work, there is no real trajectory forward . But doesn"t get as much coverage as some of the ppl we look at. Shares w/ de kooning not only a way of thinking, but also a way of addressing the. (abstract texpressionists were always upset at each other, at others, etc. ) Upsets the normalcy of the relationship between hand, brush, and depiction. Uses quotidian images shoes, fingers, with a sense of presence. *in art history, we tend to identify the moment in which an artist makes a.
