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Untitled

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Title: Untitled 
Artist: Donald Judd 
Style: Minimalism 
Medium: Brass and colored fluorescent plexiglass on steel brackets 
Date range: 1969
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Objecthood

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Term developed by critic Michael Fried to differentiate Minimalist works from actual “art”.

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Campbells Soup Cans

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Title: Campbells Soup Cans 
Artist: Andy Warhol
Style: pop art 
Medium: synthetic polymer paint on 32 canvases 
Date range: 1962
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Post-painterly abstraction

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-50’s 60’s
-also known as hard edge painting
Reaction to abstract expressionism
-crisp lines and solid colors to express emotions
New group of artists championed by Clement Greenberg

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Minimalism

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  • Purely abstract work devoid of human emotion, subject and narratives
  • sought purity of 3-dimensional medium
  • emphasized objecthood
  • basic geometric shapes
  • industrial nontraditional materials
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Pop art

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  • early 1960’s
  • reaction to abstract expressionism, hard edge painting and minimalism
  • led by Andy Warhol, created work inspired by American consumerism and pop culture
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Pop art characteristics

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  • Influenced by communication such as advertising, comic books, TV, newspapers and magazines
  • view art as a commodity
  • satirical view of pop culture
  • recognizable imagery
  • experimental techniques such as assemblage and mixed media