Readings:

• Chapter 19: Abstract Expressionism and the New American Art
• Chapter 20: Postwar European Art
• Chapter 21: Pop Art and Europe’s New Realism
• Chapter 22: Sixties Abstraction

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 Fautrier, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana,

Lucio Fontana "Concetto Spatiale" 1959

and Francis Bacon.

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" 1952

and Morris Louis.

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" 1967

Viewings:

• Slides from Lecture 26

Readings:

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