Art of the Sixties

1. What are the Norman Rockwell paintings included in this collection?
2. Which presidential portrait do you think draws the strongest emotional response, at least among those who were alive when these presidents were in office? Why do you think so?
3. Why do you think this clip has a soundtrack with Indian music in it when the topic is British and American art in the 1960s?
4. How do the two renderings of Martin Luther King, Jr. offered in this collection differ?
5. In what medium did Andy Warhol largely work? Why so many repetitive images? What is his most famous quote? What did he mean by it? How prescient was he?
6. Who was the most famous American pop singer of the time?
7. Who was Alfred E. Neuman? Why does his mug appear so many times for someone who never actually existed?
8. How does Willem de Kooning’s Marilyn Monroe compare with Warhol’s?
9. Who introduced the comic book look to Pop Art? Where else does comic book art come into play in the art of the decade?
10. Describe the work of Peter Max.
11. What might the role of the fruit be in the Tom Wesselmann work? Where have we seen fruit before like that in this class?
12. What work bears some resemblance to Picasso’s Guernica?
13. What was the Great Society? What kept it from coming to fruition?
14. Who was James Meredith? How does he figure into an “art” work if he wasn’t an artist?
15. In what work does a black woman’s hair look like a halo?
16. Where is the “Wham!” What kind of word is that? How is it used? What is the message?
17. In what other work is a jet fighter image used? Describe it.
18. Briefly describe the works of actual soldier artists.
19. Where is “Pinkville”? What is its other name? What happened there? Who painted a work by that title and why?
20. How is a painting by a famous Spanish artist of a completely different time used in this era?
21. What communist countries are mentioned for their art? Why?
22. Who was the most famous fashion model in the world at the time? Why was she famous?
23. What serious social problem did the United Kingdom share with the United States? In what specific area was that problem infamously centered?
24. David Hockney and Francis Bacon: How were they similar? How were they different?
25. Who is Peter Blake? What is his best known work?

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