2.10 Artwork

Vito Acconci

Chose a person at random and followed them around

Dada

In some ways conceptual art is similar to...

Conceptual art

Often produces no permanent artwork and very little that can be promoted and sold.

Barbra Kruger

Uses her training and experience as a graphic designer to combine found images and words to give them new meanings.

23, nine hours

Vito Acconci followed various people around for _________ days. The longest following lasted ____________.

Jean Tinguely

Was interesting in exploring impermanence, accident, and uncertainty as legitimate forces within the creation and experience of a work of art

Vito Acconci

Was known for art actions and performances early in his career.

John Cage

Was one of the first to conduct "Happenings"

Performance:

Work involving the human body Performed in front of audience.

prayer trees

Yoko Ono's wishing tree was inspired by the Japanese

Yoko Ono

Began making conceptual artworks in the early 1960s. Her first pieces were poetic instructions to be performed or just imagined.

Actions and ideas

Alternative media draws our attention to _________ and _____________ rather than physical product

Mel Chin

An American conceptual artist that challenges the traditional of the artist and the expected outcomes of artworks.

Theater piece No. 1

An unrecorded collaboration in poetry, music, and paintings by the faculty and students at Black Mountain college in North Carolina.

Installations

Are often designed to fit the dimensions or environment of a particular location.

Installation:

Artwork created by the assembling and arrangement of objects in a specific location.

Art and Life

Artworks made using alternative media and processes break down the traditional boundaries of...

Feminist overtone

As in united, Barbra Kruger's works often displays a...

Fred Wilson

Draws on his background as an art educator to rearrange objects in art museums.

Modes of creation

During the twentieth century, a way of making art emerged that focused on the _________________.

The viewers participation to be realized.

Each piece of Yoko Ono's wish tree artworks requires...

Yoko Ono's wish tree artworks.

Exist only in a potential state when the artist first made them.

Metropolitan Museum of art

Fred Wilson works at the...

Kara Walker

Her installations address overlooked history; the pre-civil war

Jackson Pullock

His action paintings of the 1950s brought the canvas off the easel and onto to the floor to become a surface around which the artist moved as he splashed, dripped, and flung his paint.

Joseph Beuys

His actions were intended to activate a process of spiritual healing and reconciliation, to make amends for the desecration caused by the coming of the Europeans to the new world.

Ambulance

I When Joseph Beuys was finished with his performance he was whisked away in an...

Conceptual:

Idea is more important than visual or material product.

Three months

In 2010 Marina Abramovic performed the longest-lasting work of her career so far, The artist is present, lasted...

John Cage

Incorporated into his music chance operations, experimental techniques, and even silence.

Conceptual art

Is a form of art that emphasizes ideas and radically downplays the importance of a work of art as craft object.

Homage to New York

Jean Tinguely's ______________________ was designed to mimic the automatic process and spontanious painting techniques that had become so popular amongst artists.

the life around them

John Cage wanted his artwork to draw people's attention to...

Zen Buddhism

John Cage was heavily influenced by...

Happenings

John cage was one of the first to conduct...

Marcel Duchamp

Made the artwork Fountain that was rejected for an art exhibit because it was simply a factory-made white porcelain urnial, signed R.Mutt.

Media art

Many artworks that are interactive or involve the view in unusual and significant ways fall into this catagory

Conceptual art

Many examples of ____________ consists of words or pages on a background.

Dadaist

Marcel Duchamp was a...

Kinetic art

Marcel Dunchamp was one of the first to experiment with...

Life magazine

Pullock rocked to popular fame following an article in...

Edward Kienholz

The beanery by _____________________ reflected the artist's desire to break down barriers between art and life.

Medium

The meaning of an artwork transcends its...

German heritage and wider issues of social identity

The work of Joseph Beuys explores his own...

Emphasis on performance

Theater piece No. 1's lasting influence comes from its _________________________ rather than documentation

Vito Acconci's "Following Piece"

There was no audience at the time but the artist took pictures of each "following" he made.