Visual System: Semiotic Matrix

 

European
"Burden of the Past"


  

Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa
(detail) 1503

Bernini, Ecstasy of St. Teresa,
1645-52

Manet, Olympia (detail),
1863-65
 

Picasso, Girl with Mandolin
(detail), 1910
  
     
 

American Art, 19th c. to 1940

  
     

American Romantic landscape painting tradition, 19th century
  

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks
(detail) 1942
 
 
 

American, Post-War
Artistic Positions

  
     


Jackson Pollock. Lavender Mist
(detail), 1950

Mark Rothko, Untitled (no. 2),
1962

Frank Stella, Marriage of Reason and Squalor (detail), 1959

Roy Lichtenstein, Wham (detail), 1963

Andy Warhol, Marilyn (Green), 1967

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1968