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Art In Motion: 1950-2000

By kcabezas

  • Albert Einstein warned against the hydrogen bomb on US national TV.

    Albert Einstein warned against the hydrogen bomb on US national TV.
  • Pop Art

    Pop Art

    Art movement that used images and themes from popular culture.
    (Image:Richard Hamilton's collage Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956))

  • Eisenhower is elected as president

  • U.S. Explodes First Hydrogen Bomb

    First Test

  • Scanning electron microscope invented

  • Watson and Crick determine double helical structure of DNA

    Watson and Crick determine double helical structure of DNA

  • Supreme court rules segregated schools as illeagal.

    Brown vs. Board of Education

  • First organ transplant

  • Woodlands Style

    Woodlands Style

    Canadian movement that emphasises x-ray lines of people, animals, and plant life. Also known as medicine or legend painting.

  • Allen Ginsberg's HOWL printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity.

  • Debut of Barbie

  • Magic Realism

    Magic Realism

    This art was often typified by remarkable detail and sharp focus. It plays with perception of what is real and what is fictional.

  • Kennedy is elected as President

  • First weather Satellite

    First weather Satellite

  • Fluxus

    Fluxus

    This movement is characterized by a reductive quality to their work, as well as the use of many different art disciplines fused into one.

  • First Electronic watch is marketed

  • U.S. President Kennedy is assasinated

    U.S. President Kennedy is assasinated

  • Civil Rights Act passed

  • Op Art

    Op Art

    Optical art is one that uses optical illusions to emphasize the relationship between the illusion and the picture plane.

  • Discovery of microwave background by Penzias and Wilson

  • The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.

  • A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed.

  • Photorealism

    Paintings made with the use of camera images, resulting in a life like piece.

  • Land Art

    Movement which uses land as a medium.

  • Nixon is elected as President

  • Neil Armstrong is first man on the moon

    Neil Armstrong is first man on the moon

  • Mail Art

    Characterized as one on one commentary and collaboration using mail as a medium.

  • First Earth Day. Clean Air Act is passed.

  • Post-minimalism

    Decribes work that is influenced or attempts to go beyond the minimalist aesthetic.

  • Harmful effects of Acid rain is documented

  • Invention of laser discs.

  • Instillation Art

    Site-specific interior art works that are made especially for where they are going to be shown.

  • Oil-exporting nations of OPEC raise prices, set off energy crisis

  • The MITS Altair 8800 is hailed as the first “personal” computer

  • Lucy the homonid is found

    Lucy the homonid is found

  • The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik's book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being.

  • Neoism

    Neoism is an international subculture which put itself into simultaneous continuity and discontinuity with experimental arts

  • First case of AIDs documented

  • 1981 Initial stock offering by Genentech signals era of biotechnology

  • Figuration Libre

    Reaction to the intellectualized and rational Concept Art, the French artists developed a figurative and individualized form of art.

  • First measurement system of El Niño/La Niña

  • Apple introduces the mouse and the pull-down menu

  • Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes

  • Brit Art

    Brit Art

    Group of British artists that are noted for shock tactics, use of throwaway materials, wild-living, and an attitude both oppositional and entrepreneurial.

  • Bush elected President

  • Determination that DNA from a single hair can identify an individual

  • Communist rule in Eastern Europe crumbles; Berlin Wall falls

  • Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces that he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.

  • Massurrealism

    Massurrealism

    Massurrealism is characterized by the convergence of surrealism and mass media, influenced by pop art.

  • End of Cold War

  • World Wide Web is released (invented at CERN 1988)

  • On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show ("Same-Sex Crushes"), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz. Schmitz kills Amedure several days after the show.

  • Physicists create a new form of matter, the long-sought Bose-Einstein condensate, allowing easier exploration of quantum mechanics

  • The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.

  • NSF begins work on a new U.S. research station at the South Pole

  • Stuckism

    Stuckism

    Stuckism promotes figure painting in contrast to conceptual art.