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A) Gorky Adoian, Armenia, 1904) To NY 1925: MIT Since L Ectur E Notes Caroline A - Jones, September and 15

This document contains lecture notes from an MIT course on art since 1940. It discusses several key artists who emerged during this period and influenced the development of abstract expressionism. The notes cover John Graham, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. Graham, Gorky, and Hofmann are described as "transformers" who introduced European modernist styles like cubism and expressionism to the US. Pollock is discussed for his pioneering drip style paintings of the late 1940s. The notes also address the influence of World War II on the emergence of an American avant-garde movement.

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A) Gorky Adoian, Armenia, 1904) To NY 1925: MIT Since L Ectur E Notes Caroline A - Jones, September and 15

This document contains lecture notes from an MIT course on art since 1940. It discusses several key artists who emerged during this period and influenced the development of abstract expressionism. The notes cover John Graham, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. Graham, Gorky, and Hofmann are described as "transformers" who introduced European modernist styles like cubism and expressionism to the US. Pollock is discussed for his pioneering drip style paintings of the late 1940s. The notes also address the influence of World War II on the emergence of an American avant-garde movement.

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MIT 4.651. A R T SI NC E 1940 L E CT UR E NOT E S Caroline A .

Jones, September 13 and 15


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'" am Nature:" H ofmann (and other pr ecur sor s), Pollock, K r asner
key decade: 1940

OUT L INE
I. Transformers

A) John Graham (b. Ivan Dabrowsky, Kiev, 1881) to NY 1920 System and Dialectics ofdrt published 1 93 7 B) Arshile Gorky (b. Vosdanig Adoian, Armenia, 1904)to NY 1925 Breton, "pope'kf Surrealism, deemed Gorky to be the first Surrealist to go back to nature, "treating her as a cryptogram, [revealing] the very rhythm of life..." C) Hans Hohann (b. Saxony Germany 1880, d. 1966) to NY 1932 1. Not interested in Surrealism 2. Acted as bridge to European modernism (Cubism + Expressionism) 3. Important teacher, especially in the years 2938-45 when he influenced Pollock and the critic Clement Greenberg

I I .Jackson Pollock @. Cody, WY 1912, died a probable suicide 1956)


A. Avowed influences (Mexicans, Benton, Native American sand painters); unavowed influences (John Graham, jazz, Matta, Herbert Matter, critic Clement Greenberg) B. Formal achievements, process 1. 1930s: Primitivism 2. 1943 synthesis of Cubist grid and Expressionist gesture 3. 1947 "breakthr~ugh"drip style (met Greenberg 1942, close friends by '46)

HI.Codification of the Pollock Myth: Hans Namuth's Jackson Pollock, 1951 (film)
IV. Lenore ("Lee") Krasner (b. W 1908, d. 1984) A. Krasner's challenge I. The gender politics of Abstract Expressionism (Pollock to Hofmann "I am Nature") 2. The gender politics of postwar society: the IittIe woman 3. The gender politics of art: the oxymoron of a "female master" B. The influence of Pollock, the influence of Krasner

Q: how much did world war contribute to the emergence of an American avant-garde?

See verso for images

MIT 4.65 1 AR T SINCE 1940 L ECTUR E NOT E S C aroline A . Jones, September 13 and I5
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IMAGES SHOWN (selected)


Graham Iron Horse, 1927 Graham, Self-Portrait as a Harlequin 1944 Gorky The Artist and His Mother, 1926-36 Gorky, Organization 1936 Gorky, Garden in Sochi, 1940-41 Gorky, Water of the FIowerv Mill, 1944 Hofinann, Apples 1932 Hofrtlann Idolatress, 1944 H o h n The Wind 1944 H o h n n Cathedral 1959 Pollock Bird 1938-41 Pollock Moon Woman 1942 Pollock Guardians of the Secret 1943 Pollock Mural 1943 Pollock Alchemy 1947 Pollock, No. J 1948 Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1950 MatterPollock? Untitled, ca. SOs? Krasner Composition 1949 Krasner Three in Two 1956

http:I/www.bc.edulb~or~avp/caslartmuseumlexhibitions/archivelpollock-matterslindex.html if you are interested in the Herbert Matter /Jackson Pollock controversy

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4.651 Art Since 1940


Fall 2010

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