SIBUGAY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INCORPORATED

Lower Taway, Ipil Zamboanga Sibugay

COLLEGE OF MIDWIFERY

NAME: REDOBLE, NANETH F. YEAR&SECTION: BSMID

2D
DATE: January 16, 2024 SCORE:______________

CONTEMPORARY ART MOVEMENTS

NEO-POP ART

Nick Twaalfhoven

His style can best be described as Neo-

expressionist (street) pop. His paintings are made
with a great deal of energy and furious joy.

Jeff Koons

Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has

blended the concerns and methods of Pop,
Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft-
making and popular culture to create his own
unique art iconography, often controversial and
always engaging.
PHOTOREALISM

Ralph Goings

- was an American
painter closely associated
with the Photorealism
movement of the late 1960s
and early 1970s. He was best
known for his highly detailed
paintings of hamburger
stands, pick-up trucks, and
California banks, portrayed in
a deliberately objective
manner.
 Charles Bell

Despite a lifelong interest in art, Bell never received any formal art training.[4]
He claimed inspiration from Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. He also
worked in the San Francisco studio of Donald Timothy Flores, where he painted
mostly small-scale landscapes and still lifes, was given the Society of Western
Artists Award in 1968. After moving to New York, Bell created his paintings by
photographing a subject in still life.

CONCEPTUALISM
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth (1965)

Joseph Kosuth’s piece One and Three Chairs consists of a photograph of a folding
wooden chair, a physical folding wooden chair, and a dictionary definition of the word
“chair” all juxtaposed next to each other.

Untitled (Perfect Lovers)

by Felix Gonzalez-
Torres (1991)

Exploring the concept of

human relationships and the impact
of the passing of time, artist Felix
Gonzalez-Torres set two battery
powered clocks to the exact same
time. Over the course of a few days,
the two clocks inevitably fell out of
sync, displaying differing times.

Created in 1991, this more

modern conceptual artwork serves
as an allegory of some sort based on
Gonzalez-Torres’ personal
experiences.

PERFORMANCE ART
Adrian Piper’s innovations through experimentations with the relationship between
individual identity and societal perception have paved the way for performance artists’ use of
self and identity to this day. Her reach extends well beyond performance, and without her
influence, the world for artists working with conceptualism, feminism, and minimalism
would be quite different today.

Operating in anonymity behind comical gorilla masks (which began from an internal
misspelling of Guerilla), the originally feminist-oriented group holds firmly onto its relevance
since its beginnings in the 1980s to advocate for equality across the board within the art
world. Through their ingenious use of marketing-reminiscent language and statistics, the
group first gained the art world’s attention with a guerilla campaign plastering Manhattan
with posters against the incredibly male-heavy showing of MoMA’s 1984 International
Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, where among 165 featured artists, only 13 were
women. Their incorporative approach and redefining of performance taken through activist
statements make many question the line between contemporary art collectives and social
activist groups like Green Peace.

INSTALLATION ART
 In the 1950s ‘happenings’ were all the rage across the United States, with artists
including Claes Oldenberg and Allan Kaprow merging experimental performance art with
crudely assembled objects, often with a politicized agenda. By the 1960s the term
‘installation art’ had been adopted by leading publications including Artforum, Arts
Magazine and Studio International to describe a huge rising trend for assemblages and
environments. These artworks deliberately evaded the art market, since they were almost
impossible to sell and had to be taken apart at the end of the exhibition. Instead, they have
lived on through photographic documentation, known as an ‘installation shot.’

British artist Cornelia Parker’s Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991, is one
of the most striking and memorable installation artworks of recent times. To create this work,
Parker filled an old shed with domestic junk including old toys and tools, before having the
entire shed exploded in a field by the British Army. She then gathered together all the
fragments left behind and suspended them mid-air as if permanently suspended in the ‘b’ of
the bang. When set amidst eerie lighting these once familiar items become abstracted and
unrecognizable fragments, while the title ‘Cold Dark Matter’ further emphasizes a sense of
gothic mystery, referencing what Parker calls, “matter in the universe that hasn’t yet been
measured.”

EARTH ART
 A Line Made by Walking is a 1967 sculpture by British artist Richard Long.
The piece was made when Long walked a continuous line into a field of grass in
Wiltshire, England, and then photographed the result. The work is considered to be an
important early work in the history of both land art and conceptual art.

Double Negative is a piece of land art located in the Moapa Valley on Mormon
Mesa near Overton, Nevada. Double Negative was created in 1969 by artist Michael Heizer,
and consists of a trench dug into the earth. Two trenches straddle either side of a natural
canyon (into which the excavated material was dumped). The "negative" in the title thus
refers in part to both the natural and man-made negative space that constitutes the work. The
work essentially consists of what is not there, what has been displaced.

STREET ART

The British street artist Banksy is, without a doubt, one of the world's most
famous contemporary artists. His iconic pieces create a buzz each time they are discovered in
public spaces either in London or other major cities. This street artist, whose identity remains
unknown, is famous for this piece entitled Little Girl with Ballon, which he stenciled on the
Waterloo Bridge in South Bank London in 2002. Banksy's antiauthoritarian art is witty,
simple and carefully planned. If you want to learn more about this contemporary street
artist, feel free to check out our biographical blog article about this anonymous graffiti artist.

Keith Haring's (1958-1990) lively figural and patterned imagery blended

elements from Pop Art and Street Art. His work started drawing people's attention in the
early 1980s when he created thousands of illegal chalk drawings in the New York City
subways. Haring's signature style can be seen in one of his most famous works, We the
Youth (1987), a mural covering the west face of a private row house in the Point Breeze
neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The mural depicts dancing figures painted in
primary colors outlined in black on a white background. The north facing section of the
mural, painted on a fence, contains the words "We the Youth: City Kids of Phila + NYC".
Haring's initials and the date are located at the bottom right of the mural.