Art History Crash Course

 STYLE: Extreme form of abstract art, simplified down to just basic shapes and colors CONTENT: Geometric shapes FAMOUS ARTIST EXAMPLES: Sol LeWitt Ellsworth Kelly Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance I Blue, Yellow, and Red-Orange, 1964-65 Frank Stella Double Gray Scramble, 1973 Black Painting,  1958-60 Harran II, 1967

 STYLE: Bright and flat colors, bold outlines – like a comic book. CONTENT: Scenes from pop culture such as celebrities, famous brand logos, and comic book panels. FAMOUS ARTIST EXAMPLES: Andy Warhol Keith Haring Radiant Baby, 1990 Untitled, 1982 Roy Lichtenstein Explosion , 1965-6 Drowning Girl, 1963

 STYLE: Strange, dream-like scenes with realistically drawn objects in odd places. CONTENT: Strange, dream-like pictures that combine objects in unusual ways FAMOUS ARTIST EXAMPLES: Max Ernst The Triumph of Surrealism, 1937 Ubu Impersonator, 1923 At the First Clear Word, 1923 Rene Magritte This is not a pipe The False Mirror, 1929 Salvador Dalí The Persistence of Memory The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird , 1940 The Two Fridas, 1939  ​ Self-Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States​, 1932.

 STYLE: Often called “anti-art,” Dada was a reaction to the first World War, when artist felt like the world was in chaos. Dada art is purposefully bizarre, nonsensical, or chaotic, CONTENT: Collages, found objects, parodies, and photos FAMOUS ARTIST EXAMPLES: Jean Arp Torn-Up Woodcut, 1920-54 According to the Laws of Chance, 1933 Sophie Taeuber Dada Head Marcel Duchamp Fountain,  1917 Bicycle Wheel, 1913 L.H.O.O.Q, 1919 Hannah Höch Aus der Sammlung: Aus einem Ethnographischen Museum Nr. IX ., 1929 Little Sun, 1 969