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4.651 | Art Since 1940
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MIT 4.651 ART SINCE 1940 LECTURE NOTES Week 7: COOL ART / COLD WAR Lecture 11: “Post-Painterly Abstraction” and Formalist Sculpture; Greenberg’s reign key decade: 1950s into ‘60s terms: Color Field, “Post-Painterly” abst. I. Greenberg’s search for AbEx’s successor: A) Helen Frankenthaler (b. US 1928) Per artist Morris Louis, “a bridge between Pollock and what was possible,” per art historian/critic Michael Fried “pregnant with possibilities” (!) B) Morris Louis (b Louis Bernstein, US, 1912-1962) C) Kenneth Noland (US, b. 1924) II. Formalism and sculpture: Anthony Caro (UK, b. 1924) III. Formalism’s occlusions A) Frankenthaler’s body B) Ellsworth Kelly (US, b. 1923) IV. The uptake of formalism A) Kelly’s public art B) Kelly algorithm: http://radicalart.info/AlgorithmicArt/grid/any/index.html Review of Midterm images SELECTED IMAGES Fr an ke nth aler , M ountains and Sea October 1952* Fr an ke nth aler , Scene w/ Nude (a.k .a. Personal Landscape) October 1952* Fr an ke nth aler , A rca dia , 1962 Fr an ke nth aler , Orange Proscenium , 1968 Lo uis, Charred Journal: Firewritten, 1951 Lo uis, Tet, 1958 (compares with B lue V eil at Harvard and on the website) Lo uis, Alpha 1960 N ola nd , Song, 1958 N ola nd , B lue V eil, 1963 C aro , 24 H ours 1960 C aro , Pr airie 1967 K elly , Six ty-F ou r Pa ne ls: co lors for a larg e w all, 1951 K elly , Green, Blue, Red , 1964 * same month, same artist

4.651 Lecture 11: “Post-Painterly Abstraction” and Formalist Sculpture; Greenberg’s Reign

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