Bills Photography Lecture

 Contemporary Photography

Henry Cartier Bresson - one of the first people to use blurriness/movement. He was all about being at the right place at the right time.

Richard Prince - realized you could make a photograph that competed with paintings by blowing them up (wall size, sometimes bigger)

Cindy Sherman - posed herself as a 50's actress' in various settings. The idea in investigating your personal identity photos were fake enough to let you in on the joke. Just a little creepy...

David Leventhaw - photographed real life scenarios with toys. Built models that looked very real. 

Final Lecture 12/3

Painting in 1950s-1980s

Abstract Expressionism: Jackson Pollock - "Jack the Dripper" - Life Magazine. 

Just after WWII, America became a super power in art.
Abstract Expressionism is the idea that it was improvisational, natural, and usually expressed by man.

Second Generation Abstract Expressionism

Joan Mitchell started early, and refuted the idea of being an action painter.
Cy Twombly, totally opposite of Jackson Pollock... very purposeful and careful.
Brice Martin, started out as minimal painter, then followed Twombly.

Pop Art 

Andy Worhol, though that everyone should be famous for 15 min. Probably the most well known pop artist.
Robert Raschenberg, silk screening paintings.

Master Malt?

Hybrids