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GUILLERMO MEZA Elegía a un poeta ausente, 1964 

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A new and important revolt arose in Mexican art between 1952 and 1965. Although they remained anchored to archetypal contents of Mexicanness, they managed, each in their own style, to make a radical turn regarding their way of configuring. Ricardo with his works of vibrant chiaroscuro and silent atmosphere surfaces and Guillermo with his dramatic and chromatically concrete painting.
In Elegy to an Absent Poet (1964), a tribute dedicated to his writer friend Octavio Gabino Barreda, the artist represents two bodies involved in an impeccable handling of light and shadow. Guillermo's creation can be judged, as Berta Taracena rightly says, “Mexican for its more properly plastic values and universal for the emotion that it serenely communicates”. All of them opened gaps through their respective careers and became examples to be followed by the following generations.
-Erick Walter Trejo
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Markus Lüpertz
German sculptor and painter, of Czechoslovakian origin, born in Liberec on April 25, 1941. Belonging to the group of German neo-expressionists integrated in the artistic current of the Transvanguardia, Lüpertz's sculptural and pictorial work is, along with that of Georg Baselitz, the most representative of the group.
Markus' art was very important during the 80's to protest his low visibility, derived from his rejection of the dominant trends. These were politically, not artistically, turbulent years, and Lüpertz was their spokesman. They qualified themselves as representatives of the people and polemicized against the elitism and cryptic character of painting at the time.

VALENTINA SANCIPRIAN 6PPA

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To Susan Buckwalter, 1964 by Donald Judd

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To Susan Buckwalter, 1964 by Donald Judd

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Donald Judd

Donald Clarence Judd is an American artist associated with the minimalist movement. His work is based on a continuous search for the autonomy and clarity of the built object exposed as an artistic presentation of space without apparent hierarchy.

Born: June 3, 1928, Excelsior Springs, Missouri, United States.

Died: February 12, 1994, Manhattan, New York, United States.

Education:  Columbia University (1957–1962), College of William and Mary, Art Students League of New York.

Why do you think this work of art is relevant in the context of these decades?
This period was explosive; many things happened socially that greatly affected the world and art.
Minimalism was a movement that came about during the 60s and 70s, used to show the identity of a subject by dumping all unneeded features.

Isabela Poblano Cruz
6PPA / L.N: 17

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Summer, 1985, Jasper Johns, Nueva York, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

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Summer, 1985, Jasper Johns, Nueva York, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

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He was a boy from the south who came to New York pushed by the efforts of his university art teacher, although he already wanted to paint since he was five years old, and who ended up being one of the most influential American painters of the second half of the century. XX.

This work of art is relevant because of the way it was painted, this is becase in the decades of the 70´s, this type of painting was just returning into the art world. Thus, in the work of artists such as Nancy Graves and Cy Twombly, deciphering the meaning of mysterious strokes and markings raises problems of interpretation that have nothing to do with the way the early abstract expressionists evoked myth and symbolism in their allusions. to preconscious signs and pictograms.

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Is one of Georg Baselitz’s most significant paintings – overwhelming in colour, figuration and size. It grapples with existence and has many references to the history of art. Baselitz painted the picture in 1983, a few months after he had finished another monumental painting, "Nachtessen in Dresden". With dramatic brush strokes in black, blue, yellow and pink colours, Baselitz makes references back to the history of German Expressionist painting – in this case to "Die Brücke", which was an artists’ association formed in 1905 by Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff – with Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Otto Mueller as later members.

Many of Baselitz’s paintings from the 1980s refer to this interest in the artists of Die Brücke, the only figure in the picture who is not upside down refers to another artist important to Baselitz, the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. He has also portrayed Munch in many of his works, and here we have a clear reference to "The Scream".

I chose this painting because, it is a painting which expresses a lot, some of us as we know do not understand what the artist wants to express, but personally I find the colours and the way it is drawn very interesting.
In the 80's it reflects a lot of sadness and the chaos that was going on at that time.

-Viry Camilo

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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962, acrylic on canvas, 2054 x 1448 mm (Tate) © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 2015

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Andrew Warhola (1928-1987) was an American artist, filmmaker, and lead exponent of the Pop Art era. He began painting in the early 1950s, but did not gain notoriety until the early 1960s. His art style, based mainly in the mass-production of silkscreens prints of consumer goods and celebrities faces. The purpose of these silkscreens was to reduce the original image to an insipid and dehumanised cultural icon and reflect the vacuous American culture of the 60s. In Film, Warhol dedicated to the production of "underground films" which focused on erotism, plotless boredom and  inordinate length. Currently, his works are presented in the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The same year of his death, the  Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was established.

Andy Warhol's work are still relevant to this day, as they are a graphic critique of a consumerist society obsessed with idols. Furthermore, there is no art that can be fully compared to Warhol's insipid and raw art.

-Miranda Hernandez

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/warhol-marilyn-diptych
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/modernity-ap/a/warhol-marilyn-diptych

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"Passionate Winner " Kazuo Shiraga, Japan, 1924 - 2008

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"Passionate Winner " Kazuo Shiraga, Japan, 1924 - 2008

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Although he was famous for many aspects of his life and work, Japanese artist Kazuo Shiraga was primarily recognized for his performative painting practices. His particularly unorthodox set of techniques was underlined by Shiraga's style which was heavily influenced by the dominant American Expressionism movement. Kazuo was a pivotal part of the artistic group called Gutai

Even thought this Japanese proto-conceptual movement formalized in 1954, and was active until the 1980s, much of its groundbreaking work was produced during the 70s art period. Attempting to break away from the traditional art production, the group’s goal was in fact reflected in its name. The combination of the word gu meaning tool and tai meaning body, best helps to illustrate the focus on the production where the body of the creative was at its center and was the main tool.

Jose Luis Monroy

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Richard Hess (1934-1991).

Hess always wanted to be a painter, but he found success instead as designer in the advertising world.
He worked as an art director, Richard Hess would assign work to the great illustrators of the 1970s, including Milton Glaser, but he would do an illustration whenever he could, always with great success. He also illustrated numerous covers for Time magazine.
Richard Hess died in August of 1991 at the age of 57.
The 1970s were an era of economic struggle, cultural change and technological innovation, this painting contains a series of elements that allude to and represent this decade.
Starting with the sea, which is a symbol of mystery, ignorance, intrigue, immensity, I see it related to the confusion and uncertainty caused by all the changes that occurred at the time. Following the naked people who are walking to the horizon, they show the vulnerability of those people walking aimlessly, the same situation that was experienced by the economic struggle.
Finally the man with petrified eyes and ears that is seen in the center of the painting, for me this represents a man that is aware of his context and what is happening around him, he has a centralized and focused vision even when everyone else is walking aimlessly, this for me represents the other side of the 1970s, an era full of cultural change and technological innovation.

-Sebastián Caraballo Muñoz

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David Hockney, (born July 9, 1937, Bradford, Yorkshire, England), English painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer whose works were characterized by economy of technique, a preoccupation with light, and a frank mundane realism derived from Pop art and photography.

Art:
Pop art movement
Hockney was one of the first artists to make extensive use of acrylic paint, which was then a relatively new artistic medium. He felt that as a fast-drying substance it was more suited to depicting the hot, dry landscapes of California than traditional oil paints.

Why do you think this work of art is relevant in the context of these decades?
It is relevant because it is part of the pop art movement, it was a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture and traditional views on what art should be; artists allow their ideas to reality, without worrying about any art rules they might have been taught to follow. Pop Art brought high contrasts and posters to the eyes and attention of the people.

-Fernanda Oseguera Pérez

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Considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century, David Hockney is one of the most important living painters in the world. California, where he lives, was one of his many inspirations: its swimming pools, its mansions, its sun, tanning bodies... Although he always refused to be considered a Pop artist, that's exactly what he was.
Born: July 9, 1937,  in Bradford, United Kingdom.
His art style is based on Pop Art, Modern Art and Cubism.
I chose this work because it is very striking to look at, I feel that it fits in the context of the time since the painting style is like that of the 80s, with vibrant and striking colors. Although it does not touch on a topic such as politics, I feel that it is something that many of the time could feel shocked about.
-Jazzeñy Cisneros López

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 Theme from an Aztec Moralist II- David Salle 1963

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 Theme from an Aztec Moralist II- David Salle 1963

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features dozens of sketches of provocatively posed nudes and stern men, creating a dizzying visual density.David Salle, (born September 28, 1952, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.), American painter who, together with such contemporaries as Julian Schnabel and Robert Longo, regenerated big, gestural, expressionist painting after years of pared-down minimalism and conceptual art. Salle is known for mixing modes of representation and appropriated ready-made motifs in a single canvas, suggesting but defying any legible narrative. Employing the postmodern technique of pastiche, where the close display of disparate images and styles tends to reduce everything to equivalent signs, Salle’s paintings function as metaphors for the dizzying onslaught of media culture.

This is an especial work because features dozens of sketches of provocatively posed nudes and stern men, creating a dizzying visual density that was not common in that decade.
-Ana Paola Álvarez Tapia

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German surrealist painter born in Altona, near Hamburg, father of the famous writer Michael Ende. Although in the 1930s his paintings attracted international attention, they were condemned as degenerate by the Nazi government and in 1936 he was banned from exhibiting and painting his works. His canvases are considered to have had a great influence on his son's writing. For example, in the scenes taken from a dream in his work The Neverending Story, and they were also made explicit in the book The Mirror in the Mirror, which is a collection of short stories based on his father's surrealist works, which were printed next to the text. In the works of Edgar Ende, regardless of the fantastic and the poetic, death, fear, loneliness are also reflected and they perfectly capture the time in which he lived. His images are rigid, they do not move, they have a meridian clarity, sometimes it seems that he is looking at them through binoculars, but in reverse. They immerse you in a dream world that borders on nightmare but something in his painting saves you from terror, one finds himself before the naked mystery in all its crudeness.

- Hugo Castro

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Andy Warhol was an American Artist, film director, and producer who was leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. He ventured not a wide variety of art forms, that controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics.

Big Electric Chair is part of a series of works by Andy Warhol depicting the electric chair. Death by electrocution was a controversial subject in New York City. It is a manifestation of the mass public fascination with death and violence. He started this series focusing on news imagery that sensationalized death and tragedy. His work has become a powerful reference point towards understanding the shifts in American culture and society.

Paola Pacheco Roca

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Atsuko Tanaka (田中 敦子, Tanaka Atsuko; February 10, 1932 – December 3, 2005) was a Japanese avant-garde artist. She was a central figure of the Gutai Art Association from 1955 to 1965. Her works have found increased curatorial and scholarly attention across the globe since the early 2000s, when she received her first museum retrospective in Ashiya, Japan, which was followed by the first retrospective abroad, in New York and Vancouver. Her work was featured in multiple exhibitions on Gutai art in Europe and North America.

This work of art and its vibrant colors can express the desperation of the young students after the Japanese government allowed the military to dissolve several movements that were looking to restructure Universities for students to get better conditions. It is important because it expresses the feelings of the people that were facing the consequences of a corrupt government.

-Carolina Marmolejo Gorostieta

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Lloyd Rees was an Australian landscape painter who twice won the Wynne Prize (is an Australian art prize for landscape painting or figure sculpture) for his landscape paintings. Most of Rees' works are concerned with representing the effects of light and emphasis is placed on the harmony between man and nature.

The author in the work expresses by the colors used by the time of year that can be winter or autumn, it is important as it shows what historical places looked like before, the pleasures of this visit is reflected in the concentrated clarity of theses sketches, which depict a pale grey day, shiny as polished pewter.

Sofi M