Week Three: The New York School

Abstract Expressionism

Action Painters: Hans Hoffman, Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollack, Lee Krasner, William de Kooning, Franz Kline, Phillip Guston

Study Slides

Hans Hoffman - The Gate - 1959-60 - Oil on Canvas

Arshille Gorky - The Liver is the Cocks Comb - 1944 - Oil on Canvas

Willem De Kooning - Excavation - 1950 - Oil on Canvas

Willem De Kooning - Woman - 1950-52 - Oil on Canvas

Week Two: Early 20th Century Artistic Climate in the United States

American Realism: Robert Henri, George Bellows, Edward Hopper, John Sloan

Regionalism: Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, Grant Wood
American Modernism: Alfred Stiegletz, Max Weber, Stanton MacDonald Wright, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keefe, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley
Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas, James Van Der Zee, Archibald Motley, Augusta Savage

Week One: Introduction to the Major Movements of the 20th Century

Realism: Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet
Impressionism: Monet, Degas, Renoir
Neo-Impressionism: Seurat, Signac
Post-Impressionism: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh
Fauvism: Matisse
Cubism: Picasso, Braque
Expressionism: Kirchner, Kollwitz, Kandinski, Schiel
Futurism: Boccioni, Balla
Suprematism: Malevich
Dada: Duchamp, Man Ray
Surrealism: Masson, Miro, Matta, Dali, Tanguy, Magritte, Oppenheim