Art EXAM

Hung Liu

"Trauma" (1989) Paintings addresses her Chinese heritage. Work is based on historic photographs--mediated images Pictures, often done in series, combine traditional Chinese imagery with personal identity.

Surrealism

A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

Salvador Dali

A Spanish surrealist artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.

The Guerilla Girls

A collective of anonymous women artists and arts professionals protest the fewer exhibitions, jobs, and lower pay for women artists. Their purpose is to cause exposure, embarrassment, and, eventually, change. Art can point out inequities between genders within a culture

Dorothea Lange

A famous photographer who wanted to be one at a young age, and, when the Depression started, landed a job to photograph the Dust Bowl, which have been recognized as showing the desperation and bravery during this time. She didn't stop documenting the suffering of people until her 1965 death, but her 1930s pictures are the most well-known.

Fauvism

A painting style developed by Henri Matisse in 1905 that formally lasted until 1908. The means "fierce animal." The style rejects Neo-Impressionism and expresses flat, bold, un-naturalistic color with impulsive brushwork; sometimes the blank canvas shows between brushstrokes.

Cubism

A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, especially cubes

Genre Painting

A term used to categorize paintings depicting scenes of every day life, including domestic interiors. Can also mean various categories such as landscape, portrait, still life etc.

Realism

Also known as political realism, is a school of international relations that prioritizes national interest and security over ideology, moral concerns and social reconstructions. This term is often synonymous with power politics.

Earthworks

Artworks created by altering a large area of land using natural and organic materials. Usually large-scale projects that take formal advantage of the local topography.

Impressionist

Believed that reality was only what could be sensed, measured, and analyzed. Stream of Consciousness

Andy Goldsworthy

British sculptor/photographer makes earth based works in site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings that are fragile and quickly disintegrate.

Betye Saar

California. Incorporated stereotypical images of black in collages and constructions. She made political art that was angry, rather than the dream-like ways of the Surrealists. "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima" 1972, one of a group of works dealing with white culture's stereotypical images of blacks, included Aunt Jemima image holding a small revolver in one hand and a rifle in the other in a box papered with "mammy" pictures.

The Lightning Field

Consists of a large, flat plain surrounded by mountains in New Mexico, in which 400 stainless steel poles are arranged in a rectangular grid measuring 1 kilometer by 1 mile. Requires effort and endurance on the part of viewers. It is remotely located, and a visitor must get permission from the Dia Foundation. Better known through photographs than it is by actual experience

General Idea

Created "Baby Makes 3" (1989) A collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson

Nam June Paik

Created "Buddha Duchamp Beuys" The title, the Buddha statue, and the television reference various parts of the world and the consumption of culture through media, without direct contact. This artist is best known for expanding the traditional limitations of artistic media by incorporating video and electronic media into his or her artwork, as can be seen in Video Flag Z.

Walter De Maria

Created "The Lightning Field" (1977)

The Haywain

Depicts a meadow in the distance, with a farm scene in front. Constable's work appealed to people who had migrated to industrial cities and missed contact with nature.

Landscape Imagery

Different from the actual outdoors. Carefully created translations of reality that often have deep social or religious meanings

Chris Ofili

Elephant poo man. Born in London, Nigerian father, now lives in Trinidad (3 way split). Addresses issues of black identity and incorporates racist themes from history. Thinks Africa is foreign to him. Uses elephant dung to support his paintings (varnished), also used in paintings.

English Landscape Art

Emphasized the open-air expansiveness of farm scenes. "The Haywain" by John Constable

Baby Makes 3

Expands the definition of the family. The image created by General Idea presents a homosexual approach to the nuclear family.

Kara Walker

Explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. "A Subtlety", 2014 Sugar Sculpture

Fantastic Creatures

Fantastic creatures are the product of human imagination, fear, and desire. Because they really do not exist, their human creators can assign a meaning and purpose to them

Monet

First-name Claude. Impressionist. Painted "The Japanese Foot Bridge" (1899). Captures subtle qualities of light & Reflection Worked outdoors to capture color/beauty of natural light.

Seurat

French Painter, Post impressionism, pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image) Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte

The Fourth Plate of Muscles

Image from Humani Corporis Fabrica published by Andreas Vesalius. This is a work of anatomical science and a work of art. It also reflects attitudes about human nature that were prevalent at that time. These studies corrected errors in old sources and added new knowledge and is a comment on the wonder of the human body and its inevitable disintegration.

Penelope Umbrico

Known for appropriating images found using search engines and picture sharing websites "Suns of Flickr"

The Nuclear Family

Like modern families, most families in western Europe from 1500-1750 lived in this type of household, in which two generations, parents and children, lived together, rather than extended families of three or more generations

Impressionism

Major Western artistic style that gained prominence in the second half of the 1800s and into the 1900s. Against Realism, visual impression of a moment, style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience, often very colorful.

The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus

Nicholas Poussin, inspired by Bologna's The Rape of the Sabine Woman, unique to be inspired by literature other than the bible, wanted to create a noble painting with serious undertones, arranged wax figures and did many sketches first to get painting right, baroque french

Over Vitebsk

Painted by Marc Chagall The figure represents thousands of Eastern European Jewish refugees who fled to Russia. Used Cubism to represent instability and the strong colors of Fauvism for greater power and expression

Chinese Landscape Art

Popular among upper/middle-class urban populations, especially in noisy and polluted areas. "Beyond the Solitary Bamboo Grove" by Sheng Maoye Carefully composed imaginary scenes. Embody both Buddhist and Taoist ideals. The Taoist love of nature and the broad, misty Vistas that express the Buddhist principle of emptiness.

Marc Chagall

Russian-French Jewish artist part of expressionism. Used distorted shapes, wrong colors. Abandons logical perspective, seem to have floating dream like landscape. Forerunner of surrealism

The Unicorn in Captivity

South Netherlandish (1495-1505) Meaning 1: Jesus, hunted by men, brutally killed, then rose back to life and pomegranates dripping red juice onto the unicorn may symbolize Christ's sacrifice. Meaning 2: True love in the Age of Chivalry, the unicorn (man) enduring terrible ordeals to win his beloved The collar = a chain of love

Pointellism

Technique by painting with small dots of color in series of patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886

James Van Der Zee

The most accomplished, comprehensive black photograph in history. His style was stark realism and dreamy romanticism. Know for photographs of Harlem, NY.

Trauma

The woman publicly shows her bound feet---erotic in private, public exposure was a shameful. Below a dead Chinese student, killed by the Chinese government in Tiananmen Square.

Site Specific Art

This art is art made exclusively for the location - can be outside and composed of any art ranging from sculpture to landscape to architecture of a building if it is unique to that particular building and site.

Las Meninas

VELAZQUEZ, 1656, group portrait of the artist in his studio at work, steps back from canvas and looks at the viewer, central is Infanta Margharita of Spain with her attendants, two chaperones, dwarf and midget, king and queen appear in mirror, Velazquez's canvas in mirror? Alternating darks and lights draw us deeper in, dappled effect of light on shimmering surfaces