Art Quiz 3 Review

Performance Art

• A performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary • Often challenge the audience to think in new and unconventional ways, break conventions of traditional arts, and break down conventional ideas of what art is

Wafaa Bilal

• American Iraqi performance artist • Became known for Domestic Tension (audience controlled paintball gun via the internet and he was shot over 60,000 times in 30 days of the installation)

John Cage

• American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist • Didn't use traditional instruments for some pieces of work like Water Walk (ex: bathtub, radios, goose call, ice, etc) • Very influential, inventor of many things • Everything is music, sit and listen • Celebrated in the art world

Outsider Art

• Art created outside the boundaries of official culture • Includes certain self-taught or naïve artists • Emerged as a successful art marketing category

Earth Art

• Art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked • Nature is where the art comes from not where it is put

Public Art

• Art out in the public • Sculptures, graffiti

Keith Haring

• Artist and Activist • Went to art school but failed, professors didn't understand his work • "Small child" became his symbol • His work is fast, made a lot of images instead of spending time on one • Raised awareness for AIDS

Roy Lichtenstein

• Became known for taking images from comic books and blowing them up and changing part • Oil paintings to look like prints • Made a lot of money in his life

Andy Goldsworthy

• Collects things from the Earth and makes things out of them • Nothing external used for binding objects together • Work only lives in the moment so its photographed to show • Spends hours making things that'll fall apart, more about the process

3D Street Art

• Commissioned work, legal • Chalk drawings on pavement

William Kentridge

• Drawings in motion • History and social circumstances of South Africa • Tragedy as subject matter • Universal issues confronting modern people

Christo and Jeanne Claude

• Environmental Artists • Use fabric a lot • Don't try to give a particular message, trying to bring attention to the environment • Raise money for their projects all by themselves

Bill Viola

• Father of Video Art movement • All his videos are without sound, can be hours long • Trys to do things in video that you can't do in other forms of art

Marina Abramovic

• Known as the grandmother of performance art • Brought performance art into museums so it's considered legit art now • Ex: Rhythm 0, Breathing In/Breathing Out, The Lovers, Artist in the Present

Shirin Neshat

• Known for work in film, video, and photography • Work refers to social, cultural and religious codes of Muslim societies and the complexity of certain oppositions • Work addressed the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary Islamic societies • Recognizes the complex intellectual and religious forces shaping the identity of Muslim throughout the world

Jean-Michel Basquiat

• Loved Warhol and wanted to do what he did • Raised into fame really quickly • Doesn't fit into any movement • Depicted attitudes about black history

Christian Marclay

• Most famous work of video art right now is Marclay's The Clock (montage of recognizable moments from TV and movies featuring clocks and watches) • Telephones- Brief Hollywood film clips creating a narrative

Tony Ousler

• Multimedia and installation artist • Working with video, sculpture, installation, performance, painting • Utilizes soft cloth figures combined with expressive faces animated by video projection

Yarn Bombing

• Not exactly legal • Type of street art, colorful knitting covering public objects • Takes a lot of time and dedication

Henry Joseph Darger

• Outsider Artist • Had a hard/tough life • Never had any training, didn't look at any other art

Aleksandr Petrov

• Pastel oil paintings on glass • Romantic realism style • Ex- Mermaid

Animation

• Process of creating motion and shape change illusion by means of the rapid display of a sequence of static images that minimally differ from each other • Creation methods include traditional animation creation method and stop motion animation of two or three dimensional objects • Images displayed in rapid succession

Kara Walker

• Public artist, gallery artist • Youngest to ever receive one specific award • Subtlety- asked Kara to make project before sugar plant was destroyed

Lock on Sculptures

• Public/Street Art • Locks on sculptures to something outside • Example- Tejn

Damien Hirst

• Richest artist living right now • Diamond studded skulls, A Thousand Years (cow head and flies), Mother and Child Divided (two cows), The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (shark), In and Out of Love (butterflies) • Uses real stuff, very unusual type of artist, very controversial

Kseniya Simonova

• Sand animation • Performance art and animation • Uses hands to draw in sand on a lit glass surface called a light table • Uses positive and negative space to make objects • Performs in front of an audience and the performances usually have a storyline

Andy Warhol

• Started as a designer, very popular/wealthy • First started hand drawing objects everyone recognized • Wanted to create own Hollywood but in Manhattan • All of his money went to the Warhol Foundation benefiting artists

Video Art

• Started using video when it first came out • Bring video into fine art realm, no plot but there is a message • Using video to explore meaning

Banksy

• Street artist • No one knows his true identity • Originally freehand artist, moved to stencils • Symbolic/powerful messages

Jeff Koons

• Takes everyday objects and turns them into something else • Took 99 cent objects/figurines and blew them up • Most expensive/richest American artist • Michael Jackson and Bubbles- Based on photograph

Chris Milk

• The Johnny Cash Project • The Treachery of Sanctuary • Thinks about the audience being an active participant

Vik Muniz

• Uses common objects (hole punches, sugar/pepper, pb & j, spaghetti, chocolate syrup) • Started making work for galleries, ended up making more public art • Wasteland Documentary- on his project with landfill garbage from his home country of Brazil, gave all money made back to the community

Pop Art

• Using common objects • Inspired by Dada • Started as a reaction to abstract expressionism • Couldn't connect to abstract art, wanted to bring it back to the people

Agato Olek

• Yarn bombing, goes around and makes "outfits" for sculptures • Will get punished if caught, has to do it at night • Bull on Wall Street • Started on the street and became popular/commissioned/gallery