THE HAPPENINGS: AN INTERACTION OF ART AND LIFE The so-called “drip” paintings of Jackson Pollock may have “broken the ice,” as Willem de Kooning put it, and put American art on the map, but the most lasting legacy of the artist was not his...
DEFINING ART AS POPULAR CULTURE DEFINING POPULAR CULTURE AS ART Introduction “A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art,” commented Allan Kaprow, a Pop artist in New York. This statement sums up what Pop Art was reacting to and...
GUTAI 1950-1960 PERFORMANCE ART IN JAPAN Gutai Art does not alter the material. Gutai Art imparts life to the material. Gutai Art does not distort the material. In Gutai Art, the human spirit and the material shake hands with each other, but keep their distance. The...
FROM MODERNISM TO POST-MODERNISM POST-WAR ART IN AMERICA After the Second World War, the art world was characterized by “triumphalism” in New York and a feeling of having won, not just a military war but also a cultural war. The French and their School of Paris had...
EVENTS FOR ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, 1945-1955 In 1946, former British prime minister, Winston Churchill made his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in March at Fulton, Missouri. According to Churchill, who had always been suspicious of Stalin, traditional fascism verses...