Pop Art, Dada, & Conceptualism

Untitled

Donald Judd
1969 CE
Brass and colored fluorescent Plexiglass on steel brackets

Mas o Menos (More or Less)

Frank Stella | 1964 CE | Metallic powder in acrylic emulsion on canvas

Untitled

Frank Stella
1966 CE

The Nominal Three (to William of Ockham)

Dan Flavin | 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

Die

Tony Smith | 1962 CE | Steel

"I just picked up the phone and ordered it."

-Tony Smith on the making of Die

Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?

Richard Hamilton
1956 CE
Collage

Hopeless

Roy Lichtenstein | 1963 CE | Oil on canvas

Roy Lichtenstein's Ben-Day Dot Painting Technique

Oh, Jeff … I Love You, Too … But …

Roy Lichtenstein | 1964 CE | Oil on canvas

Green Coca-Cola Bottles

Andy Warhol
1962 CE
Oil on canvas

Campbell's Soup Cans

Andy Warhol
1962 CE | Synthetic polymer paint on paper

Silkscreen printing in action

Campbell's Soup Cans
(Tomato Soup)

Andy Warhol
1962 CE
Synthetic polymer paint on paper

Marilyn Diptych

Andy Warhol | 1962 CE | Synthetic polymer paint on paper

Gold Marilyn

Andy Warhol
1962 CE
Synthetic polymer paint on paper

Floor Cake

Claes Oldenburg | 1962 CE | Canvas and polymer paint

Plug

Claes Oldenburg | 1970 CE | Painted steel

Spoonbridge with Cherry

Claes Oldenburg | 1988 CE | Painted steel

Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

Claes Oldenburg
1969 CE (reworked, 1974) | Painted steel, aluminum, and fiberglass

Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

Claes Oldenburg

Canyon

Robert Rauschenberg
1959 CE (Dada movement)

L.H.O.O.Q.

Marcel Duchamp
1919 CE

Pencil on paper reproduction (postcard) of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

Marcel Duchamp
1912 CE
Oil on canvas

Brief Overview of Marcel Duchamp

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp
1917 CE
Porcelain

No, not rejected. A work can't be rejected by the Independents. It was simply suppressed. I was on the jury, but I wasn't consulted, because the officials didn't know that it was I who had sent it in; I had written the name "Mutt" on it to avoid connection with the personal. The Fountain was simply placed behind a partition and, for the duration of the exhibition, I didn't know where it was. I couldn't say that I had sent the thing, but I think the organizers knew it through gossip. No one dared mention it. I had a falling out with them, and retired from the organization. After the exhibition, we found the Fountain again, behind a partition, and I retrieved it!

-Marcel Duchamp, 1971

Whether Mr. Mutt with his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He CHOSE it.

He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view – created a new thought for that object.

From The Richard Mutt Case, 1917 CE:

Fountain
(second version)

Marcel Duchamp
1950 CE
Glazed earthenware