1960's

visual artists
a sampling  ab ex > pop art > neo realism > performance art 

Joan Mitchell,  Grandes Carrières, 1961

Joan Mitchell,  1925 - 1992, Abstract Expressionist

Bridget Riley (b.1931),  UK "Hard Edge" painter > OP ART

Bridget Riley, Descending, 1965

Bridget Riley, Eye Bending, 1964

1960's > PoP aRt

identity crises

personalizing the political landscape

our differences

Roy Lichtenstein, Ball of Twine, 1964

rise in Conceptual Art, Kinetic Art, Fluxus, Happenings, Performance Art

Sylvia Palacios Whitman (b. 1941), Passing Through, performance at Sonnabend Gallery, New York, May 20, 1977. Courtesy the artist. Photograph by Babette Mangolte; © 1977 All reproduction rights reserved

Lee Bontecou . Whitney Museum of American Art video

Lee Bontecou b.1931, USA

Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1960

Lee Bontecou, Untitled, polyester, fiberglass, metal frame, canvas, skins and paint, 1966

c.1961

Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1961

Modern Women MoMA: Veronica Roberts on Lee Bontecou video

Portrait: Niki de Saint Phalle essay

Performance artist - Nouveau Realism, Kinetic sculptor

1930 - 2002 FR

Niki de Saint Phalle, Untitled/ Tirs (Shoot paintings) 1961, Tate Museum

   Niki de Saint Phalle Performance Art: Kinetic Art, Nouveau Realism

images from the article Niki de Saint Phalle: The Power of Playfulness . Telegraph . UK   essay 
> born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint Phalle, La Mort du Patriarche (1962-72)

Detail of La Mort du Patriarche (1962-72)

Tracey Emin, 1995, The Tent: Everyone I ever slept with from 1963 - 1995

Niki de Saint Phalle, Hommage to Bob Rauschenberg (Shot by Rauschenberg), 1961

Robert Rauschenberg, Erased  de Kooning Drawing, 1953

Robert Rauschenberg, serigraph (silk screen) print

Retroactive I, 1963

Robert Rauschenberg's assemblages

Nana is Venus, Niki de Saint Phalle, 1964

Nanas by Niki de Saint Phalle 1970+

Grotto by Niki de Saint Phalle

Hon-en-katedral (She Cathedral), Niki de Saint Phalle, Per Olof Ultvedt, Jean Tinguely, in the Stockholm Museum of Art, 1966

Construction plans for Hon

Hon - en katedral

The Darkness Behind Niki de Saint Phalle's Colorful Beauties essay images 

Cezanne, The Bathers, 1905

Matisse, the Dance, 1910

Stuart Davies, 6th Avenue, 1940

Red Grooms, NYC Subway, installation, 1972

Roy Lichenstein, Masterpiece, 1962 

Pop Art of the 1960's take subject matter from popular culture, a gum ball machine for instance.

Peter Whiteread, Niki de Saint Phalle Taking Aim, 1972

Yoko Ono Cut Piece, 1965  video

Yoko Ono, 1933, Japan/USA multimedia conceptual artist / activist

Lennon + Ono . Bed Peace, 1969 Amsterdam + Montreal as protest against the war in Vietnam

Bed Peace, John Lennon + Yoko Ono, Montreal, 1969  video

The Psychological World Of Louise Bourgeois, An Icon Of Contradictions article

 Louise Bourgeois. Janus Fleuri, 1968

Louise Bourgeois . Guide Stops in the Whitney video

Louise Bourgeois, Femme courteau, 1969/70

polished marble

Louise Bourgeois Insomnia drawings

Louise Bourgeois, Spider, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1996

Louise Bourgeois portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1982