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2002
peter halley (53 li 10 cimi) .us/new york +
is min
insp by baudrillard, new wave music
studied art history @ uni of orleans & yale
publish index magazine
w/ neo-geometric conceptualists (bickerton, koons)
 

brice marden (38 li 1 oc) .us/new york +
is min=>gestural abstr (mid80s)
insp by far eastern calligr + brush stroke art (mid 80s), giacometti, johns
studied art @ yale new haven, boston uni school of arts
w/ harrington (wife), pauline baez (exwife)
 
robert mangold (37 li 10 ik) .us/ny/washingtonville +
is abstr expr=>min (64); painting=>object; reduce form; ego; opaque
studied art @ yale uni of art, painting, sculpture & drawing @ cleveland institute of art
w/ plimack (wife)
 
robert ryman (30 ge 11 eb) .us/new york +
is min
attempts to eliminate illusionism and outside ref from work; focus on fundamentals of processes and materials in pict making
studied @ tennessee polytechnical inst, @ george peabody college for teachers, jazz piano
w/ merrill wagner (wife)
 

robert rauschenberg (25 li 8 eb) .us/new york +
my work is about wanting to change your mind. not for the art's sake, not for the sake of that individual piece, but for the sake of the mutual co-existence of the entire environment
is painter, sculptor, photographer, performance artist
is ego; art=life; use of quotes ~ components of reality
works by chance + nonintention + minimalism
made monogram (55-59)
w/ johns
 

ellsworth kelly (23 ge 5 etznab) .us +
is also sculpt
paintings characteristically very clear and simple in conception, sometimes consisting of a number of individual panels placed together, identical in size but each painted a different uniform colour (52-)
studied art @ école des beaux-arts paris (54, particulary byzantine icons & primitive art), @ school of the museum of fine arts boston (47), @ pratt institute brooklyn (43)
 
wolfgang schulze (wols) (13-51 ge 4 kan) .fr/paris
is painter, photographer, illustrator
is abstr expr
intr in photo, music (violin)
 
william baziotes (12-63 ge 5 ix) .us/new york +
is abstr; rich colors
intr in poetry
insp by baudelaire
made dragon; the dwarf; pompeii
w/ vazakas (poet)
 

jackson pollock (12-56 aq 1 ahau) .us/new york +
is abstr expr; process=content; spont + sense of form; "no technique"
insp by us indians, jung's analytical psy, surrealist automatism
suffers alcohol+depression
w/ krasner (wife), smith
 
1989
györgy kepes (06-02 li 10 cauac) .de/berlin+.uk/london +
intr in typo, film
founded center for advanced visual studies @ mit
w/ moholy-nagy
 
1989
barnett newman (05-70 aq 8 cimi) .us/new york
abstraction has nothing to do with geometry
the problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as i think life is physical and metaphysical
is painter, sculptor, writer
is abstr expr=>op; naive; content => form; abstr; goal=vision+enlight
intr in thoreau, kropotkin, botany, geology, omithology
insp by primitive art of us indians
studied art @ art students league, phil @ city college of new york
close friend w/ gottlieb, rothko, still, pollock
 

mark rothko (03-70 li 11 men) .us/new york +
is auto=>abstr expr; no ref to ext reality; tragic experience = source of art
studied liberal arts @ yale, painting @ art students league
w/ avery, gottlieb, motherwell, hare
commited suicide
 
willi baumeister (889-55 aq 11 cauac) .de/stuttgart
has own hierogl lang
insp by ancient egypt & greece, far east
 

kurt schwitters (887-48 ge 2 etznab) .de/hanover
art has no msg, its msg is the art itself
is merz sys; game; cross
 

fernand leger (881-55 aq 3 eb) .fr/paris
is synt cubism; exp.film
 

franz marc (880-16 aq 6 chuen) .de/munchen
precisely 'pure' art concerns itself so little with the 'others', bothers so little about the 'purpose of unifying mankind', as tolstoy says, pursues at all, but is simply a metaphorical act of creation, proud and entirely 'of and for itself'
is purer world; metaphy
w/ kandinskij, macke
 

paul gauguin (848-03 ge 2 oc) .fr
w/ van gogh, cezanne
 
fire
 

bruce nauman (41 sa 4 caban) .us/new mexico/galisteo +
uses irony, wordplay
intr in sculpt, video, perf, films, holograms, interactive environments, painting
studied art, math, phy
 

andy warhol (28-87 le 12 oc) .us/new york +
artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he -- for some reason -- thinks it would be a good idea to give them
is ego; anti massprod; no values+feelings; banal motifs
w/ reed, cale
 

otto piene (28 ar 6 ahau) .de/düsseldorf + .us/ma/groton +
is sculptor, arch
uses grid struct; anonymous objectivity; art in sympathy with the rhythms of the universe
approaches color as emanation of light; art as an articulation of natural forces: light, fire, smoke, wind
is director emeritus @ center for advanced visual studies @ mit
studied @ albertus magnus uni cologne, @ art academy düsseldorf, @ art academy munich, @ blocherer art school munich
founded zero group
 

agnes martin (12 ar 2 ben) .us/new mexico/galisteo + .us/new york
 
viktor vasarely (08-97 ar 3 chuen) .fr/paris
work of art must be repeatable and capable of being reproduced in as many copies as required
is op
works w/ sci+theoretical basis; ego
 

clyfford still (04-80 sa 13 cimi) .us/san francisco +
is abstr expr; theme=process of painting
 
arshile gorky (04-48 ar) .us/new york +
is abstr expr
w/ de kooning
 
1965
joan miro (893-83 ar 12 manik) .es
is game=>auto; spont; circle
 

mark tobey (890-76 sa 10 manik) .us/seattle+.ch/basel +
insp by near+far east; travelled a much (mx, us, orient); studied .cn calligr; a month in .jp zen monastery; no full buddh
uses linear webs of urban compositions
uses "white writing" = light paint on dark field + lines
tried to "penetrate the mind and clear away all rational processes in an effort to get at the inner recesses of experience"
 

marcel duchamp (887-68 le 1 cib) .us/new york
is game, 0~1; anticorp; sys thinker
intr in lit+music+math+phy+mech+folk => intermedia, inst
w/ picabia
 
hans hofmann (880-66 ar 8 eb) .fr/paris+.us/new york +
art is strictly bound to inherent laws dictated by the medium in which it comes to expression.. painting is painting, sculpture is sculpture, architecture is architecture
uses push and pull colors
 

paul klee (879-40 sa 6 cauac) .ch/bern
intr in poetry, arch, phil, sci, music, sculpt, afro
w/ strumpf (wife, pianist)
tought elemental dsgn theory @ bauhaus
 

emil nolde (867-56 le 4 cimi) .de
 

vasilij kandinskij (866-44 sa 5 ahau) .de/münchen
is iq+abstr; tao; transcend+metaphy; phil+art
insp by art noveaux, symb, surr
made pix for for positive vibration inside the spectator (=music)
uses yin/yang colors+forms
made compositions (09-39), impressions
published on the spiritual in art (12)
w/ marc
 

edvard munch (863-44 sa 10 ben) .no
suffers neuroses
 
1885
vincent van gogh (853-890 ar 3 cimi) .fr
uses "no technique
made sunflowers (888)
w/ gauguin
 
articles
 
marden iview, exhibition brochure, 91
newman by judd, studio international, 79
nauman statement, 72
rothko, gottlieb, newman statement, jun 43
 
links
 
artnet db
 
earth
 

frank stella (36 ta 12 kan) .us
is sculpt
 

bridget riley (31 ta 3 ik) .uk/london
is op
 

jasper johns (30 ta 9 caban) .us
 

yves klein (28-62 ta 3 oc) .fr/paris
 

joseph beuys (21-86 ta 10 muluc) .de/düsseldorf +
tought @ düsseldorf art academy (61-72, prof)
 
robert motherwell (15-91 cp 13 chuen) .us +
 

willem de kooning (04-97 ta 1 cimi) .us/new york +
 
salvador dali (04-89 ta 5 akbal) .es
 

man ray (890-76 vi 8 imix) .us/new york+.fr/paris
w/ duchamp
 
georges braque (882-63 ta 11 men) .fr/paris
 

henri matisse (869-54 cp 9 ik) .fr
 
water
 

laszlo moholy-nagy (895-46 cn 1 lamat) .at/wien+.us/chicago
 

pablo picasso (881-72 sc 6 men) .es
 

kazimir malevich (878-35 pi 9 cauac) .ru/moskva
the world is the world, not spirit or matter
made black square (15), black cross (16-17)
 

piet mondrian (872-44 pi 12 etznab) .nl
 

 
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