Art exam 3

Jackson Pollock, *Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950

- Isn't really planning much he just grabs the materials and allows his body to portray what is in his mind. Responding to what's happening on the canvas in real time The only way to make an idea known is through the expression of the body. The lines represent the creative process of pollock. The act of making is the expression. Gestural abstraction/action painting/abstract expressionism - Enamel on canvas - Completely flat and non-objective Pollock was interested in just the effects of paint on canvas. - Inspired by Native American sand paintings. - Created by placing the canvas on the ground and dripping cans of paint on it until it reached an aesthetic form. - Pollock would occasionally chuck random objects such as cigarettes and buttons into his paintings.

Allan Kaprow What is a happening? Assemblage of events preformed in more than one time in place. 18 Happenings in 6 Parts 1959 Pused beyond what art is,

18 Happenings in 6 Parts

What is superealism?

60's 70's emphasized scrupulous fidelity to opitcal fact. \many used photographs as references

What is environmental art?

60s-80s american and used land itself as their material. Constriuct monuments of great scale and minimal forms. Transform a physical envirpments. Liberaqte people from only seeing art in a musem

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture between the end of WWI and the start of WWII

What is Der Blaue Reiter?

Founded by Vassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in Music in 1911. Chose the name of their mutual love of horses and the color blue. Created paintings like the Die Brücke , which captured their feelings in visual forms while also eliciting intense emotional response from the viewer.

What is minimalism?

Sculpture movment in american 1960's severly reducing form, to a single homogenous units It is an American art movement in which "art is stripped down to the essentials; paintings and sculptures are self-sufficient and have no subject matter, content, or meaning beyond their presence as objects in space."

What is impressionism?

a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color. Has an unfinished and sketchy quality to it.

What is pop art?

art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values. his art movement reinforced all of the artisticdevices--signs , symbols, metaphors, allusions, illusions, andfigurative imagery--traditionally used to convey meaning in artthat recent avant-garde artists, in search of purity, had purgedfrom their abstract and often reductive works. Pop artists notonly embraced representation but also produced an artresolutely grounded in consumer culture, the mass media, andpopular culture, thereby making it much more accessible andunderstandable to the average person.

*What is Fauvism?

les fauves ('the wild beasts'). a style of painting with vivid expressionistic and nonnaturalistic use of color that flourished in Paris from 1905 and, although short-lived, had an important influence on subsequent artists, especially the German expressionists. Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure.

What is en plein air?

painting outside

What is regionalism

American movement that portrayed American rual life in a realist style. Movement in American art that focused on local, representational subject-matter. Regionalism was the dominant style in American art during the 1930s and into the 1940s, often depicting scenes of the rural Midwest, American folklore, or the hard times during the Great Depression.

What is precisianism

An American artmovement of the 1920s and 1930sthat concentrated on portraying man-made environments in a clear andconcise manner to express the beautyof perfect and precise machine (ormachined) forms. Developed out of the armory show

what is surealism

DADA successor Way to express world of dreams Largely abstract ideas, others are recognizable but still abstract Surrealismincorporated the improvisational nature of itspredecessor into its exploration of the ways toexpress in art the world of dreams and theunconscious. In some works, this idea isaccomplished through largely abstract compositions,and in others through recognizable scenestransformed into a dream or nightmare image.

What happened at the 1913 armory show in NYC

European artists had works there as they were fleeing europe before WWII. European artists bring new ideas of artmaking to american artists Outrage at the exhibition. Reivaluated american art.

Impression: Sunrise, Claude Monet 1872

Impression Sunrise began the impressionist controversy. Widely criticized and dismissed by the French Academy. Trying to represent and everyday water scene form his perspective. Primarily interested in how light interacts with the surroundings. Trying to capture fleeting moments such as sunrise, sunset. "Anaonymous artists" Known as impressionists Started a new art festival

What is cosmic cubism

Informed by cubism and blue rider group.

What is abstract expressionism

Paintings that are abstract but aalso express the state of mind of the artiust through forms that are mosyly abstract. Wants to affect viewer emotionally. Clement Greenburg Understands this objective of abstract erxpressionism as strict formalism. That it is strictly the forms that communicate meaning, rather than representational subject. Broken up into. 2 schools of thought Getsural ABstraction Express artists state of mind through striking emotional chords with the viewer. Uses energetically applied pigments. Chromatic Abstraction Express artists state of mind through striking emotional chords with the viewer. By means of color.

Revulsion against WW1. Embraced political anarchy, irrational, and intuitive. Distain convention. Thought that if civil society traditions had led to world war 1, then it must be destroyed. Rejected being an art movment/group, called themselves an anti movment. Wantsed to call out destructive social norms. Hugo Ball, a Poest, writes dada manifesto, the anti-manifesto for an anti movment. Lack of meaning/purpose in life.

What is DaDa

Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg Develop simplified geometric style. Wants to reform society. Want better balance between individual and the collective. Elevate common good over the needs of the indiviidual.

What is De STIJL?

Futurism - Italian movement s that celebrates war as a cleansing agent and celebrated the speed/dynamism of modern technology. Italy was falling behind Artists frustrated with Italy's decreasing presence in the world. Caputrue madernity, capture movment, industrial development, etc. Lashed out about cultural traditions, wanted to kill musems, feminism, etc. Human organic form operate in mechanical way.

What is Futurism

Formed by Kazimir Malevich Supreme reality in the world is pure feeling. Attaches to no object. ........... In relation to the reality we expirience We live in flesh and blood, but there is a new multidimentional space beyond the material world.

What is Suprematism

Knowns as the "bridge" group they wanted to pave a new age in art, acting like the bridge from past to future. Bridge from civil society Journey of self discovery Idea of morality was holding back society and wants the people to break out of the cultural norms. people are trapped in a Social imprisonment and need to liberate themselves from Rises above the idea of right and wrong. Wants a spiritual evolution. Gterm-20ermany is behind in developing their contry and they need to catch up. Ernst Ludwig is a driving factor

What is the Die Brücke

What is Post-Painterly abstraction

Where AE conveys intense passion, PPA is cool, detached rationality emphasizing tighter pictural control. Championed by Clement Greenberg