Major
Art Events in History 1940-Present
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Year |
1940 |
1950 |
1960 |
1970 |
1980 |
1990 |
2000 |
Present |
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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 |
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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 |
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Major exhibitions |
New York School exhibitions |
Documenta |
A New Spirit in
Painting |
YBA, Freeze DeviantART Artist’s personal websites |
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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 |
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Other famous people |
Hitler, Stalin, Gandhi |
Crick and Watson, discoverers of the DNA molecule shape |
Kennedy |
Nixon |
Reagan |
Clinton |
George w. Bush |
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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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