Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Seashore, 1909-10, German Romanticism

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Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Seashore,
1909-10, German Romanticism
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Frederick Edwin Church, Rainy Season in the
Tropics, 1866US Transcendentalism, Hudson River
School
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Barnett Newman, Pagan Void, Oil on canvas, 33 x
38, 1946
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Barnett Newman, Onement I (1948), 27 1/4 inches
by 16 1/4 inches, oil on canvas and oil on
masking tape on canvas Kasimir Malevich,
Suprematist Composition White on White, 1918,
oil on canvas, 79,5 x 79,5 cm
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Barnett Newman Vir Heroicus Sublimus, 1950-51,
o/c, c 8/ 18 MoMA
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Barnett Newman and an unidentified viewer with
Cathedra in Newman's studio, 1958.

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Newman, Broken Obelisk, Rothko Chapel, Houston,
Philip Johnson, 1971
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Mark Rothko (American b. Marcus Rothkowitz,
Lithuania 1903 -1970)(left) Self-Portrait, o/c,
32/25, 1936 (right) Entrance to Subway Subway
Scene, o/c, 1938 "Art Must be Tragic and
Timeless"
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Surrealism and mythRothko, Omen of the Eagle,
1942

• In a 1943 letter to the New York Times with
  Barnett Newman, Rothko wroteIt is a widely
  accepted notion among painters that it does not
  matter what one paints, as long as it is well
  painted. This is the essence of academicism.
  There is no such thing as a good painting about
  nothing. We assert that the subject is crucial
  and only that subject matter is valid which is
  tragic and timeless. That is why we profess a
  spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic
  art."

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Biomorphic Surrealism and automatism "It was
with the utmost reluctance that I found the
figure could not serve my purposes....But a time
came when none of us could use the figure without
mutilating it. Rothko, Sea Fantasy, 1946
(right) Untitled, 1944/1945
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Rothko, (left) Number 7, 1947-48 (right) No.
17/No. 15 Multiform,1949
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Rothko, Untitled,1949, National Gallery of Art
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Rothko, Untitled Blue, Green, and Brown,1952
Rothko in West 53rd Street Studio 1952"The
people who weep before my pictures are having the
same religious experience I had when I painted
them."
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Rothko, No. 14, 1960, o/c, 9.48 x 9.70 ft, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Rothko Chapel suite of paintings, 1965-66, De
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, 1970
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David Smith (American, 1906-1965), at Terminal
Iron Works (Brooklyn NYC), 1933
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David Smith, Untitled Study, 1939, pencil on
paper, 11in Medal for Dishonor Private Law and
Order Leagues, and (right) Bombing Civilians,
1939, cast bronze, 10 3/4 in.
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Smith, Jurassic Bird, painted steel, 1945
Specter of Profit, 1946 steel and stainless
steelwith notebook sketches from the Museum of
Natural History, New York, mid-forties
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Smith. (American, 1906-1965), Australia, 1951,
painted steel, 6' 7 x 8'12" x 16" (on cinder
block base) Compare (right) Julio Gonzalez
(Spanish, 1876-1942), Woman Combing Her Hair,
1932 (below center) Picasso (Spanish,
1881-1973), Head of a Woman, 1933
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David Smith, "drawing in space welding,
construction, assemblage process Surrealist
Action Painting automatism, spontaneity(right)
Compare Picasso studio, 1912 with constructed
guitar (first constructed sculpture)
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Compare David Smith with RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVIST
Sculptors(left) Third Obmokhu (an art school)
Exhibition Moscow, 1920Vladimir Tatlin, Monument
to the Third International, model completed in
1920 Commissioned by the Peoples Commissariat for
Enlightenment, USSR
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Smith, Hudson River Landscape, detail and two
views, 1951Drawing in Space (2-D perception?)
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Smith, Tanktotems, 1951-2 (center top) Picasso,
Bulls Head, 1943 (center below) photo of tank
tops c.1951) anthropomorphism, found materials
assemblage welding
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Smith, Zig IV, painted steel, 1963
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Voltri series, 1962, 27 welded sculptures in 30
days
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Smith, Voltri XVII, 1962, steel, 95 in H (right)
Smith erecting Voltron XVII in 1963
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Smith, (left) Cubi XXVII, 1965., 111 H (center)
Cubi XVII, 1963, stainless steel
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Smith surveying his personages at Bolton
landing, 1963 Died 2 yrs later in a truck crash