Jonathan Morgan
Adjunct Professor of Art at Lone Star College & South Dakota State University, PhD candidate at IDSVA
Unit 3:
Multiculturalism & Globalization in Art
Art History II: Renaissance to Modern
Prof. Morgan
Modernism
to Postmodernity
Worldviews of the 20th-21st Centuries
Worldviews of the 20th-21st Centuries
Worldviews of the 20th-21st Centuries
Worldviews of the 20th-21st Centuries
Worldviews of the 20th-21st Centuries
Intro to Postmodernism
Sartre, Greenberg, & Expressionism
20th Century Existentialism
Man Pointing (no. 5 of 6)
Alberto Giacometti
1947 CE
Bronze
Works from Giacometti's 2017 Retrospective at Tate Modern
The less you eat, drink & buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital.
-Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 1844
The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being.
Painting
Francis Bacon
1946 CE
Oil and pastel on linen
Figure with Meat
Francis Bacon
1945 CE
Oil on canvas
Portrait of Innocent X
Diego Velasquez | c. 1650 CE
Vir Heroicus Sublimis
Barnett Newman
1950–1951 CE
Oil on canvas
Untitled
Barnett Newman | 1945 CE | Oil on canvas
Two Edges
Barnett Newman
1948 CE
Oil on canvas
Untitled
Barnett Newman
1948 CE
Oil on canvas
Onement I
Barnett Newman
1948 CE
Oil on canvas
Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)
Jackson Pollock | 1950 CE | Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas
The Seasons
Lee Krasner
1957 CE
Oil and house paint on canvas
The Bay
Hellen Frankenthaler | 1963 CE | Acrylic on canvas
Greenberg & Expressionist Hype
No. 30 (Autumn Rhythm)
Jackson Pollock
1950 CE | Enamel paint on canvas
No. 14
Mark Rothko
1961 CE
Oil on canvas
Mark Rothko
No. 12
Mark Rothko
1954 CE
Oil on canvas
I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
The fact that a lot of people
break down and cry
when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.
If you…are moved only by their color relationships, then
you miss the point.
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in therelationship of color or form or anything else.
Orange, Red, Yellow
Mark Rothko
1961 CE
Acrylic on canvas
Rothko Chapel
Mark Rothko | 1964-1971 CE
Broken Obelisk
Barnett Newman | Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX | 1971 CE | Bronze
Minimalism vs. Pop Art
DONALD JUDD
Untitled
1969 CE
Brass and colored fluorescent Plexiglass on steel brackets
DAN FLAVIN
The Nominal Three (to William of Ockham)
1963 CE | Fluorescent lights
"It is what it is, and it ain’t nothin’ else. . . . There is no overwhelming spirituality you are supposed to come into contact with. . . . It’s in a sense a “get-in-get-out” situation. And it is very easy to understand. One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find."
- Dan Flavin
FRANK STELLA
Mas o Menos (More or Less)
1964 CE | Metallic powder in acrylic emulsion on canvas
FRANK STELLA
Untitled
1966 CE
TONY SMITH
Die
1962 CE | Steel
"I just picked up the phone and ordered it."
-Tony Smith on the making of Die
RICHARD HAMILTON
Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?
1956 CE
Collage
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Hopeless
1963 CE | Oil on canvas
Roy Lichtenstein's Ben-Day Dot Painting Technique
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Oh, Jeff … I Love You, Too … But …
1964 CE | Oil on canvas
ANDY WARHOL
Green Coca-Cola Bottles
1962 CE
Oil on canvas
The Evolution of Warhol's Style
ANDY WARHOL
Campbell's Soup Cans
1962 CE | Synthetic polymer paint on paper
Silkscreen printing is an old wallpaper making technique
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ANDY WARHOL
Campbell's Soup Cans (Tomato Soup)
1962 CE
Synthetic polymer paint on paper
Celebrity through the eyes of Warhol
ANDY WARHOL
Marilyn Diptych
1962 CE | Synthetic polymer paint on paper
ANDY WARHOL
Gold Marilyn
1962 CE
Synthetic polymer paint on paper
CLAES OLDENBURG
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
1969 CE (reworked, 1974) | Painted steel, aluminum, and fiberglass
CLAES OLDENBURG
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Canyon
1959 CE
ANDY WARHOL
Brillo Soap Pads Box
1964 CE
Photo taken during the 1964 exhibition at the Stable Gallery
ANDY WARHOL
Heinz Tomato Ketchup Box
1964 CE |
Set of Four Boxes by Warhol from 1964
Sold at Sotheby's auction house for $1 million
Japanese Art
Example of Craftsmanship in Japan
Modern Japan
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Chinese Influence on Japanese Painting
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Zen Aesthetics
Topics to Cover:
Chinese Influence on Japanese Painting
Portrait of Yoritomo
Fujiwara Takanobu
1179 CE
Color on silk
Hitofude-Ryuu Painting
Takase Family | c. 2010 CE
Japanese Single-Stroke (Hitofude) Painting
Member of the Takase Family holding a Hitofude-Ryuu painting
SESSHU TOYO
Splashed-Ink (Haboku) Landscape
(detail of the lower part of a hanging scroll)
1495 CE
Ink on paper
SESSHU TOYO
Winter Landscape
1486 CE
Ink on paper
KANO MOTONOBU
Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian Sweeping with a Broom
c. 1513 CE
Ink and color on paper
YIN HONG
Hundred Birds Admiring the Peacocks
Late 15th to early 16th century CE
Poet on a Mountain Top
Shen Zhou | c. 1500 CE
Examples of Sumi Ink Sticks & other Calligraphy Tools
Sumi Ink Stick with Ink Stone
Making Materials with Care
Zen Aesthetics
Key Aspects of Buddhism
Koans: Aesthetic Thought within Zen Practice
Saiho-ji (a.k.a. Koke-dera, or 'Moss Temple')
Kyoto, Japan | 14th century CE
Zen mountains and "waterfall"
Daisen-in, Kyoto, Japan, c. 1488 CE
Karesansui (dry landscape) garden
Ryōan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, c. 1488 CE
Design Thinking in Japan
Kogan (tea-ceremony water jar)
Late 16th century CE
Shino glazed stoneware with underglaze from slip decoration
Mid-Century Modern
Wabi Sabi
Mid-Century Modern Interior Design
Mid-Century Modern End Table
Wabi-Sabi-Inspired Contemporary Interior Design
KOYAMA KIYOKO
Tea bowl
c. 2000 CE | Stoneware with natural ash glaze
Stoneware cup with clear, crackled glaze, stained by ink with gold lacquer repair (Kintsugi)
c. 17th century CE
Example of Staples used for Ceramic Repair
Kintsugi Process
Wabi Sabi & Kintsugi
Africa
Africa in the Early 21st Century
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Performative Art in Africa
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Mask Making
Topics to Cover:
By decolonization, I mean divesting African philosophical thinking of all undue influences emanating from our colonial past.
What is Decolonization?
-Kwasi Wiredu, 1998 CE
The crucial word in this formulation is ‘undue’.
Film: Decolonizing African Art
Performative Art
in Africa
Senufo Masquerader
Cote d’Ivoire | photographed c. 1980-1990 CE
Samburu Men & Women Dancing
Northern Kenya | photographed in 1973 CE
Gelede Ritual Performances
Mask Making
Wara Headdress
Bamana, from the Bamako region of Mali
Late 19th or early 20th century CE
Wood, metal bands, and thread
The Making of West African Masks
Benin Ivory Pendant Mask
Benin, Nigeria
16th century CE
Wood, Ivory, and Copper alloy
Kponyungo "Helmet” Dance Mask
Senufo, Côte d’Ivoire| 19th to mid-20th century CE | Wood
Dance mask in use
Kpeliye'e "Beautiful Lady” Dance Mask
Senufo, Côte d’Ivoire
Late 20th century CE
Wood
Examples of Traditional Scarification
D’mba Mask
Baga, Guinea
Late 19th or early 20th cent. CE
Wood and brass
Ngady Amwaash mask
Kuba, Democratic Republic of Congo
Late 19th or early 20th cent. CE
Wood, beads, shells, & fabric
Bwoom Masquerader
Kuba, Democratic Republic of Congo
photographed c. 1950 CE
Wood, beads, shells, feathers, & fabric
Satimbe Masquerader
Mid- to late 20th cent. CE
Wood, pigment, cord, & feathers
End of Unit 3
Native American Cultures
Native American Cultures
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The Survival of Aztec Culture through Art
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The Overlooked Complexity of
Native North America
Topics to Cover:
Central American Cultures
North American Cultures
The Black Legend, Native Americans, & Spaniards
The Survival of Aztec Culture through Art
Intro to the Aztec Empire
Mictlantecuhtli and Quetzalcoatl, folio 56 of the Borgia Codex
from Puebla or Tlaxcala, Mexico | c. 1400–1500 CE | Mineral and vegetable pigments on deerskin
The founding of Tenochtitlán,
folio 2 recto of the Codex Mendoza
1541–1542 CE
Ink and color on paper
Modern State Seal of the
United Mexican States
Reconstruction drawing with cutaway view of various "re-buildings" of the Great Temple
Tenochtitlan, Mexico City, Mexico
c. 1400-1500 CE
Reconstruction of the Great Temple Complex
Reconstruction of the Great Temple
Coatlicue
from Tenochtitlán, Mexico City, Mexico
ca. 1487–1520 CE
Andesite
Artist's Rendering of Coatlicue
Cortes & the Fall of the Aztec
Reclaiming Native American Art
Aztec Street Art
The Overlooked Complexity of
Native North America
Katsina Figurine
Otto Pentewa
Hopi, New Oraibi, Arizona
carved before 1959 CE
Cottonwood root and feathers
Reconstruction of a 19th century Haida Village with Totem Poles
Bill Reid (Haida), assisted by Doug Kranmer (Kwakiutl)
Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | 1962 CE
The Raven and the First Men
Bill Reid | Haida | 1978–1980 CE | Yellow cedar
Buffalo Hide Robe with Battle Scene
Mandan, from the upper Missouri River, North Dakota | c. 1800 CE
Buffalo hide with deerskin fringe, porcupine quills, and mineral pigments
The Role of Nature for Many Native American Cultures
Home of the Bear & Snake
Traditional Navajo Composition | Colored sand on earth
Coyote Stealing Fire
Traditional Navajo Composition | Colored sand on earth
Monster Slayer
Traditional Navajo Composition | Colored sand on earth
Navajo Medicine Men Making Sand Paintings
Navajo Tribal Members Making a Large Sand Painting
c. 1940 CE
A Conversation With Native Americans on Race
Art History II: Unit 3
By Jonathan Morgan
Art History II: Unit 3
Prof. Morgan | Updated Fall 2025
