Major Art Events in History 1940-Present

Year

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

Present

Movement

-Abstract Expressionism

-Color field painting

-Pop Art

-Op Art

Photorealism

Performance

Hard-Edge /Minimalism

Conceptualism

Earthworks

Neo Conceptualism

Installation Art

Video Art

New Media Art

Biological Art

Major artists

Jackson Pollock

Willem De Kooning

Mark Rothko

 Andy Warhol

 Roy Liechtenstein

Claes Oldenburg

Richard Estes

Chuck Close

Joseph Beuys

Frank Stella

Vito Acconci

Yoko Ono

Robert Smithson

Jenny Holzer

Jeff Koons

Ilya Kabakov

Barbara Kruger

William Wegman

Laurie Anderson

Cory Arcangel

Felix Gonzales-Torres

STELARC

Damien Hirst

Major exhibitions

New York School exhibitions

Documenta

A New Spirit in Painting

YBA,

Freeze

DeviantART

Artist’s personal websites

Other major world event

End of World War II (1945)

Start of the Korean War

Berlin Wall built

Moon landing

May 4 1970 Kent State shootings

Pc’s, Video games created

Gulf War

Internet rises

WTC attack, rise in Wi-Fi technology

Other famous people

Hitler, Stalin, Gandhi

Crick and Watson, discoverers of the DNA molecule shape

Kennedy

Nixon

Reagan

Clinton

George w. Bush

Example of art

 

Jackson Pollock

 

 

Andy Warhol

 

 

Frank Stella

 

Robert Smithson

 

Barbara Kruger

New media art-click here

 

 

 

Felix Gonzales-Torres

 

STELARC

 

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Ohio academic content standards: art grade 8

 

Helpful websites:

The-artists.org

Wikipedia

 

~ Grade 8 Benchmark C standard 5: Consider and discuss how contemporary artworks contribute to and influence the future of art.

 

 
 
 

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