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
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
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
Art History II: Unit 3
By Jonathan Morgan
Art History II: Unit 3
Prof. Morgan | Updated Fall 2025
