Foundational ideas in the discipline of art history and an introduction to modern art in the United States.

1. Modernism
and
Abstraction

2. Contemporary
What does contemporary mean?

3. Modern
Related Terms:
Modernity, Modernism, Modernist
Clement Greenberg (1909–1994)

4. Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863, oil on canvas

5. Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1904, oil on canvas

6. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, oil on canvas

7. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, oil on canvas

8. Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, 1915

9. Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942–43

10. Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) 1950, oil on canvas

11. 1950s
Abstract
Expressionism

12. Nina Leen, The Irascibles, 1950

13. The New American Painting, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 1958

14. I. Action Painting
II. Color-Field Painting

15. Action Painting

16. Jackson Pollock, 1912–1956

17. Jackson Pollock, Guardians of the Secret, 1943, oil on canvas

18. Pollock, Male and Female, 1942Joan Miró, Dutch Interior I, 1928

19. Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, no. 30, 1950, oil on canvas

20. Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, no. 30, 1950, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

21. Pollock, Portrait and a Dream, 1953, oil on canvas

22. Willem de Kooning,1904–1907

23. Willem de Kooning, Woman, 1944 and Figure, 1949, oil on canvas

24. Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1950-52 Willem de Kooning, Woman II, 1952

25. Lee Krasner, 1908–1984

26. Lee Krasner, Untitled, 1949, oil
Piet Mondrian, Composition in Brown
and Gray, 1913

27. Lee Krasner, Gaea, 1956, oil on canvas

28. Color-Field Painting

29. Mark Rothko, 1903–1970

30. Mark Rothko, Vessels of Magic, 1947 Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1949

31. Mark Rothko, no. 10, 1950

32. Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1950, oil

33. Mark Rothko, Magenta, Black, Green on Orange, 1950, Yale University Art Gallery

34. Mark Rothko, Red, Orange, Orange on Red, 1962, Yale University Art Gallery

35. Barnett Newman, 1905–1970

36. Barnett Newman, Abraham, 1949

37. Barnett Newman, Achilles, 1953

38. *Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-1, oil

39. Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51

40. Norman Lewis, 1909–1979

41. Norman Lewis, Evening Rendezvous, 1962, oil on linen

42. Romare Bearden, 1911–1988

43. Romare Bearden, River Mist, 1962

44. Romare Bearden, Summertime, 1967