After an introduction and confirmation that the students are comfortable moving about in VR, we will discuss reasons the center of the art world shifted from Paris to the US in the 1940’s. We will examine the first major American art style, Abstract Expressionism, and it’s two varieties of Action Painting and Color Field Painting. We will then move through the art styles of the second half of the 20th century all the way to Contemporary Art being made today. After a review, we will travel to the small art studio to create digital paintings using techniques similar to Reginald Laurent and Yayoi Kusama.
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Strickland, 2007
Art History for Dummies, Wilder, 2007
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history
Isms: Understanding Art, Little, 2004
Isms: Understanding Modern Art, Phillips, 2013
The Art Book, DK, 2017