ART 101 FINAL

Edvard Munch, The Scream/Cry

Record the impact of a remembered scene. Influenced expressionism

Salon des Refuses

Salon on the Rejected, sponsored by the government, was looked down upon by the public

Orientalism: Edward Said

Stereotype: A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. The creation of stereotypes by essentialize in and generalizing elements of a culture (person, place). The stereotypes are then become part of our understanding of that culture. Edward said use the term to describe a pervasive Western tradition, both academic and artistic, of prejudiced outsider interpretations of the east shaped by the attitudes of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries

Minimalism

Strip down to the bare essentials. Self-sufficient without subject matter. Fabricated from industrial materials.

Rene Magritte

The Treason of Images (This is not a Pipe). developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar

Salvador Dali

Un Chien Andalou movie. to shock the public and explore the human psyche.

New York school: feminism

Woman house, Judy Chicago. 1971-72. explores history of gender roles

Picasso, Braque

analytical cubism: objects are analyze, broken up and reassembled it in abstracted form

cubism

and alternative to linear perspective organization of space developed by Pablo Picasso and George Brock in the early 20th century. Built from a collection of observations, objects are seen from several angles simultaneously.

Neo-classical and David (artist)

associated with the enlightenment; David most famous work is The Oath of the Horatii (values of patriotism, self sacrifice, fidelity)

Collage: example is Still Life with Chair Caning (Picasso)

by 1912, Picasso wanted to find a way to bring the real world more directly into cubist pictures. He did it by literally attaching bits and pieces from every day life-inventing collage. The first was still life with chair-Caning, where cubist painting is mixed with a printed pattern of chair caning on it.

Giorgio de Chirico

called his artwork metaphysical pictures; his works are pre/Proto-surrealism

New York school: Robert Rauschenberg

combines Claes Oldenburg..... Painting relates to both art and life. Art and real world. His first combines is the bed. Combines: technique of attaching found objects to a traditional campus support.

realism

depiction of life without sentimentality of the romanticist

Cézanne

father of cubism, simplified forms to their natural shapes

New York school: guerrilla girls

feminist group of arts and professors: eliminate bias against women and people of color in the art world

The Salons and Academic Art

in the mid-19th century, a style of painting emerged that integrated aspects of neoclassicism and romanticism into a highly acceptable, and popular, formula. This style was approved by the French Royal Academy of painting and sculpture, which organized annual exhibits, known as Salons, accepting or rejecting submitted works and handing out prizes. The works that won critical praise and patronage (which became known as academic art) were extremely detailed and colorful scenes from history, literature, mythology, or exotic lands.

De Stijl

influenced by Mondrian. They declared that are in life were no longer separate domains.finding practical solutions to universal problems. designed furniture in buildings

abstract expressionism: Jackson Pollock

influenced by surrealists, especially the use of automatic picture making

Happenings: Allen Kaprow

installation and performance, happenings in six parts in 1959, Reuben gallery, New York. Characteristic: aspect of improvisation, one-time experience, audience participation and it can occur in any space. and free of charge you can't buy a happening anti-consumerism.

primitivism

is a Westin art movement that borrows visual forms from non-western or prehistoric people's

drip technique/painting: know what it is, associated with Jackson Pollock

is a form of abstract art in which paint is dripped or poured onto the canvas

Fauves

literally the "Wild beast," a group or French artists led by Henri Matisse in the early 1900s. They ignored perspective and used bright colors as a source of pleasure.

abstract expressionism: Alexander Calder

mobiles and stabiles: stationary sculptures, usually red or black, biomorphic and abstract in shape.

Japonisme and Ukiyo-e

of a love of all things Japanese, floating world

surrealism

originated in 1910 and early 20s-exploration of the subconscious. Influenced by Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. The unconscious/subconscious mind is the birthplace of creativity. Automatism: (free association m) automatic writing, drawing, painting.

New York school: Jasper Johns

painted "what the mind already knows" the familiar things, flags, targets

reinvention

projection of one cultural symbol is in on another

Marcel Duchamp

ready-made, nude descending a staircase had elements of cubism and futurists. ready-made: manufactured object designated by the artist as a work of art.

romanticism

rejected neoclassical art. Looked inside themselves for the truth

abstract expressionism: Henry Moore

sculptor, inspired by the Toltec-Maya. figure he saw at the Louvre. The reclining figure becomes a motif in his sculptures

action painting: gesturing, use of whole body

sometimes called gestural abstraction, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being careful he applied.

Italian futurism

speed, movement, cars, airplanes, industry and technology

ready-made

use a pre-existing object and incorporate into an artwork

Pointillism: George Seurat

uses dots and creates an optical mix, blending. Science and art. his master piece : A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte, 1884

Paul Gauguin

vision after the sermon, or Jacob wrestling with an angel, used symbolism. Tahitian paintings he you some fictional and nonfictional elements in his paintings

Dada

waged war on conventional thinking. antiwar movement. Rejected conventional reason and logic. Embrace the crazy, absurd, irrational and intuitive

Modernity

was coined by Charles Baudelaire to describe the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis (Paris) and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.

New York school: performance art

Chris Burden. tested his own psychological and physical limits with performances like shoot. He challenges our basic assumptions about what an artist is supposed to do and what art is.

abstract expressionism: Mark Rothko

Color field color-field painting: art based on simplified, large format, color dominated fields

postimpressionists

A group of unrelated artist who reacted to the ideas of the impressionists

Vasily Kandinsky

A truly abstract/non-representational painting. universal human emotions and ideas, spirituality. generally regarded as the pioneer of abstract art.

Pop art

Andy Warhol: "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." Roy Lichtenstein: used benday dots, appropriation art (comic books). Plays with stereotypes as a commentary on life

impressionist

Monet-quality of light and atmosphere through color. Renoir-human interactions and moods. Mary Cassatt-painted women and children. Edouard Manet-not an impressionist, but considered the father of Olympia. Degas is not an impressionist, but lumped into it. Edgar Dégas is best known for his depictions of ballerina.

Futurists

Italian movement. Themes of the future, technology, mechanical, movement to glorify modernity.

Auguste Rodin

Gates of hell, father of modern sculpture. were originally designed as a doorway to be cast in bronze for a new Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.

Vincent van Gogh

German expressionism followers of him

expressionism

German, make inner feelings visible, used African and archaic art as a means to express the feelings of anger