Post-Modernism

1932-07-20 00:00:00

Nam June Paik

This is the day that Nam June Paik was born and the day that the creation of video could be possible. ZP

1938-01-18 13:48:45

Neo Dadaism First Defined!

The Visual Art world was introduced to term Neo-Dadaism by the American art historian and art critic Barbara Rose.The Neo-Dada movement, like its earlier namesake, was a strain of avant-garde art, characterized by its use of unorthodox materials, use of popular imagery, and collaborative juxtapositions, and driven by its anti-establishment ethic. SK

1947-07-20 00:00:00

Monotone Symphony

Yves Klien composed a symphony containing single chord lasting 20 seconds followed by 20 seconds of silence. During those 20 seconds, three models drenched themselves in International Klein Blue paint and randomly left their imprints along surrounding white paper. They stopped when the music stopped. AP

1951-07-01 00:00:00

Invention of Video

This was the day of the first ever recorded image from a video camera. This event made recording performance art possible, as well as providing a mandatory aspect of video art. AP

1953-03-01 00:00:00

Erased De Kooning Drawing

Artist Robert Rauschenberg made a number of artworks to explore the limits of what can be defined as art. These works recall the concept first broached by Marcel Duchamp with his iconic readymades of the early twentieth century. With Erased de Kooning Drawing, Rauschenberg set out to discover whether an artwork could be produced entirely through erasure—an act focused on the removal of marks rather than their accumulation. SK

1953-04-01 00:00:00

Washington Crossing the Delaware

After reading Tolstoy's War and Peace, Larry Rivers was inspired to paint a very controversial painting. He sought out to create the most controversial work anyone has ever seen and this was one of his attempts. He worked to montage the gestural forms together in a collaged painting. SK

1956-03-01 00:00:00

Just What is it That Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?

English artist Richard Hamilton created this photo collage that started the pop art movement. He was commenting on what was popular in their culture at the time and why. -PK

1957-03-01 00:00:00

The "Happening"

In early Spring, Allan Kaprow first coined the phrase "happening", which is artwork that appears anywhere random and involve audience participation. Happenings inspired performance art, and the two are usually used synonymously now. AP

1958-01-18 13:48:45

Jim Dine Happenings

Jim Dine became apart of the group of artists that intiated Happenings, an early form of performance art. Although he worked with the Neo-Dadaist style ( incorporating the use of daily life objects) his work with Allen Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg influenced movements in the future. SK

1958-01-18 13:48:45

Three Flags

The American flag was an iconic symbol of what Jasper Johns sought to depict within his work. As he explained, the imagery derives from "things the mind already knows," utterly familiar icons such as flags, targets, stenciled numbers, ale cans, and, slightly later, maps of the U.S.It has been suggested that the American flag in Johns' work is an autobiographical reference, because a military hero after whom he was named, Sergeant William Jasper, raised the flag in a brave action during the Revolutionary War. SK

1958-07-20 00:00:00

Blue

Yves Klein used his signature monochromatic blue clay to create sculptures. He created this special shade of blue with a group of chemists, and called it International Klein Blue. It is one of the boldest, loudest shades of blue ever developed. AP

1959-07-20 00:00:00

Monogram

Monogram was one of Rauschenberg's first and most famous combines. The work consisted of the juxtaposition of a stuffed angora goat, a tire, a police barrier, the heel of a shoe, a tennis ball, and paint. This pioneering altered the course of modern art. The idea of combining and of noticing combinations of objects and images has remained at the core of Rauschenberg’s work. SK

1960-05-01 00:00:00

The use of Video in Art

This is the beginning of when artists started using film and other digital media formats in the art world. ZP

1960-05-02 00:00:00

Silkscreen Printing

Michael Vasilantone invented a machine that would produce silk screen prints. This method uses a stencil and leaves behind ink on the substrate. It was commonly used by Andy Warhol.-PK

1960-07-20 00:00:00

Homage to New York

Jean Tinguely produced a machine that destroyed itself as an art piece for the sculpture garden in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He worked with engineers to make it self-destruct efficiently in 27 minutes. It was made of arbitrary pieces. AP

1962-01-01 00:00:00

Vestigial Appendages

It was done by James Rosenquist, he recreated mass media on canvas with oil paint. Juxtaposing fragmented advertisements to comment on the power they have and send his own personal messages.-PK

1962-02-08 00:00:00

Campbell's Soup Cans

Andy Warhol reprinted a mundane object with silkscreen that was viewed in a gallery. Questioning the boundaries of what art is and what makes it important-PK

1962-04-01 00:00:00

Turning Friendship of America and France

This was the collaborative work of Jean Tinguely and Larry Rivers. It presents the possibility and desirability of peaceful co-existence, and celebrates the use of commerce (symbolized by images of cigarette packages) in establishing cultural exchanges at all levels. Not only is it a collaboration of material usage but also with two artists within the Neo-Dada period. SK

1962-08-05 11:09:34

Death of Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn was found in her home in Brentwood after overdosing on drugs. It was suspected to be a suicide. -PK

1962-08-19 00:00:00

Marilyn Dyptic

Done by Andy Warhol using silkscreening technique.-PK

1963-04-04 11:31:58

Drowning Girl

Roy Liechtenstein painted a female heroin, taken from a comic book and draw in the same quality as a bad print. Made up up of lots of small, colored dots.-PK

1963-11-22 11:09:34

Assassination of JFK

President JFK was shot while riding in a car through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.-PK

1965-03-08 00:00:00

Vietnam War

The US sends troops into vietnam. This sparks a lot of riots led by the American youth, especially hippies.-PK

1965-11-26 00:00:00

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

As his first solo event in a private gallery, Joseph Beuys covered himself in honey and gold leaf and whispered explanations of pictures lining the walls to a dead rabbit which he held in his arms like a baby. He performed this piece in a room by himself with a large window to enable viewers to speculate. After three hours of performing, he allowed the audience in for questioning. His final words of the exhibition were "the myth is in the art". AP

1968-01-18 08:46:21

Earth Work Movement Begins

The Earth Works Movement began as a protest against the artificiality, aesthetic, and commercialization of art at the end of the 1960's, such as Pop Art Movement. And also founded in support of the emerging ecological movement in the United States. AF

1969-04-01 00:00:00

Joesph Beuys

Joseph Beuys was one of the leading figures in European avant-garde art during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. He was central to debates about the role of the artist in society and politics. He is best known for his plastic art - sculptures, assemblages and installations - made from "found objects" including animal felt and fat chosen by the artist as a personal if not biographical motif. This work alludes to Beuy's experiences within World War 2. SK

1969-06-15 20:23:01

Michael Heizer Double Negative

The beginning of the Earth Works movement occurred with Michael Heizer's Double Negative. The work is a long trench that in 30 feet wide, 50 feet deep, and 1500 feet long. What has been excavated between the two rock forms, creates the negative and places the focus on what is not there. AF

1969-07-21 00:00:00

Man on the Moon

NASA sends astronauts into space and for the first time ever, a man, Neil Armstrong, steps foot on the moon.- PK

1970-04-11 00:00:00

Robert Smithson's The Spiral Jetty

Located on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, this Earth Work is made entirely of mud, salt crystals, and basalt rocks forming a 1500 foot long, 15 foot wide counterclockwise coil off the shore of the lake. AF

1971-07-10 03:00:00

Paul Getty was Kidnapped

Paul Getty was kidnapped from the Piazza Farnese in Rome with a $17 million ransom. After the kidnappers cut off Getty's ear and sent it to his father, Mr Getty sent $2.2 million to the kidnappers because it was the largest amount that was tax-deductible. AP

1971-07-20 00:00:00

Shoot

Chris Burden's most well-known performance art pieces in which he allows hi assistant to shoot him in the left arm with a rifle from a very close range. This piece, as well as Chris Burden's other publicly tortuous works, transitioned into the beginning of body art. AP

1972-04-01 00:00:00

May Wilson - Ridiculous Portrait

A pioneer of the “Mail Art” movement of the 1950s and ’60s, and sometimes referred to as the “Grandma Moses of the Underground” because she began her art career at the age of 42, May Wilson is known for her photomontages and surrealist assemblages that explore issues of gender and identity through an early feminist lens. SK

1974-04-01 00:00:00

Nam June Paik's TV Buddha

The vision for this piece of art is to bring the past and present, the old and new, the real and illusory together. The link below will take you to an image of the TV Buddha.ZP

1974-04-01 00:00:00

Nam June Paik's Contribution to the art world

Paik contributed to the information age of the 21st century. He also influenced the amazing performances of legendary composer John Cage who was determined to translate electronic music into the visual realm.ZP

1974-05-01 00:00:00

I Like America and American Likes Me

Joseph Beuys was extremely ill on the day of this performance, and was rushed to René Block gallery in an ambulance. When he arrived, he walked into a caged-off area with hay on the ground and a coyote waiting for him. Attached, is a video of his performance he repeated for a week while he communicated with the "spirit of America". After this presentation, Beuys became renowned as an artist and shaman healer. AP

1976-04-01 00:00:00

Clothespin

This sculpture was made from weathering steel. The artist Claes Oldenburg created the work in the central square of Philadelphia. The clothespin addresses the city's civic issues and attempts to close the gap between income levels within the city. SK

1977-06-18 06:18:21

Lightning Field by Walter De Maria

Located in a remote area of the high desert in western New Mexico, Lightning Field was designed to capture the forces and energy of lightning striking the area and magnify its effects. Consisting of 400 stainless steel poles with solid, pointed tips arranged on a grid 220 feet apart from each other on a one mile grid. AF

1977-07-20 00:00:00

The First Star Wars Movie

Star Wars was the most elaborate movie of its time with special effects and robotic characters. It revolutionized the standards of cinema and remains a cult classic to this day. AP

1979-08-16 22:05:46

Cell Phones

Cellular telephones were invented in 1979, owned by only a few select people. AF

1979-11-12 03:38:37

Energy Crisis

In 1973, OPEC launched an oil embargo which severely damaged western economies. People began talking about energy conservation. In 1979, an energy crisis struck. Gas prices shot up. As a result of the energy crisis, government economic policy, worldwide ecomomic conditions, and the cost of the welfare state, the American economy collapsed. The country faced double-digit inflation and unemployment. AF

1979-11-12 03:38:37

Running Fence by Christo and Jeanne Claude

A 25 mile long veiled fence in northern California crossing 15 roads and on the private property of 59 ranchers. To be able to accomplish this feat, permission was needed from the Superior Courts of California, and a drafted 450 page environmental impact report. AF

1980-11-12 03:38:37

The assassination of John Lennon

John Lennon, an influential member of the Beatles and political activist, was assassinated by Mark David Chapman. AF

1983-05-07 21:33:41

Surrounded Islands by Christo and Jeanne Claude

Married couple Christo and Jeanne Claude created many controversial pieces including Surrounded Islands in Biscayne Bay in between the cities of Miami. Eleven islands were surrounded with 6.5 million square feet of floating pink woven polypropylene fabric covering the surface of the water and extending 200 feet from each island. The luminous pink color was chosen because it was in harmony with the tropical vegetation and the Miami sky. The earth work was left for two weeks. AF

1983-07-18 00:00:00

Sally Ride becomes the first female in space

Sally Ride became the first female in space when she boarded the Challenger. The mission deployed two satellites and experimented with a variety of medicines. This event inspired feminism and feminist art. AP

1986-10-27 22:51:24

The Invention of the Disposable Camera

The disposable camera allowed the average person the chance to take photographs and capture moments without the expenses of a regular camera. AF

1987-04-01 00:00:00

Bill Viola's The Crossing

This is a video that has a double sided video that shows a man walking through a corridor. On one side of the screen you see a man walking in slow motion while water starts falling on the man. While on the other side of the screen there is a man that is walking in slow motion while a fire comes up from his feet until he eventually disappears. For this work there are some major questions that get asked like Is the man dead? or Is this man in a higher state of existence? ZP

1994-04-01 00:00:00

Matthew Barney's: Cremaster

Cremaster 1: the start of the idea, Cremaster 2: the rejection of an idea, Cremaster 3: the artist falling in love with the idea, Cremaster 4: the panic at the knowledge that the idea is about to come to fruition, Cremaster 5: the final resolution. ZP

1994-04-01 00:00:00

Matthew Barney

The reason for the Cremaster was for exploring what he called "the life style of an idea" ZP

1994-04-01 00:00:00

Matthew Barney

Matthew Barney's works of art are mostly all spiritual rather than physical works for example his Cremaster series. ZP

2000-04-01 00:00:00

Nam June Paik's TV Cello

This piece was made for the Paik's cellist and creative partner, Charlotte Moorman. This piece was made because Paik made this work of art for his interest of sound in the art world. ZP

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