This lecture we reviewed some of the major trends in European art after the second world war by looking at the art of Jean Dubuffet,

Jean Dubuffet "Dhotel nuance d’abricot" 1947

Jean Dubuffet "Dhotel nuance d’abricot" 1947

 

Jean Fautrier, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana,

Lucio Fontana "Concetto Spatiale" 1959

Lucio Fontana "Concetto Spatiale" 1959

and Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon "Painting" 1947

Francis Bacon "Painting" 1947

From there we moved back to the United States to look at trends in abstraction in the 1960s by viewing the works of Helen Frankenthaler,

Helen Frankenthaler "Mountains and Sea" 1959

Helen Frankenthaler "Mountains and Sea" 1952

and Morris Louis.

Morris Louis "Nun" 1959

Morris Louis "Nun" 1959

We closed the lecture by looking at op art and some work by Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley.

Bridget Riley "Cataract" 1963

Bridget Riley "Cataract" 1967

Viewings:

Readings:

  • Chapter 20: Postwar European Art
  • Chapter 22: Sixties Abstraction
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