Art history ch 20

Pluralism

A social structure our goal that allows members of a diverse ethnic racial or other groups to exist within society continuing to practice the customs of their own divergent cultures. Also: an adjective describing the state of having many valid contemporary styles available at the same time to artists

International style

A style in architecture developed in the 1920s that uses modern materials such as steel glass and reinforced concrete and expresses structure directly.

Neoplasticism

A style of abstract painting developed by Mondry on using only vertical and horizontal lines and rectangular shapes and black white gray and primary colors

Color field painting

A type of abstract expressionist painting in the 1950s and 60s characterized by broad abstract sweeps of solid color that emphasize the surface of the Pictureplane and deemphasize gestural brushstrokes Number 61 rust and blue see slide ID below

Woman

Abstract Expressionism; William de Kooning; he felt art is never peaceful or pure. He shot the art world with his depiction of woman who he painted over 200 times. She seems dangerous and a little rain in contrary to the advertising images of the time that depicted women as sweet and kind

Minimalism

Actual shapes; Donald Judd; primarily sculpture Example is untitled; see slide ID

Automatism

Also called automatic writing. A technique in which artists abandoned the usual intellectual control over their brush or pencil. The artists aim is to allow the subconscious to create the artwork without rational interference

Happening

An art form developed in the 1960s incorporating performance theater and visual images. A happening was organized without specific narrative or intent with audience participation the event proceed accordingly to chance and individual improvisation

Ready-made

An object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist

Performance art

And artwork based on a live sometimes theatrical performance by the artist

Marilyn diptych

Andy Warhol; pop art; made after Marilyn Monroe's suicide The religious manner of tryptych. Pretrade her as the martyr

Dada

Art that should appeal to the mind rather than the senses; ready-made were done in this style An example of the style is the fountain

Postmodernism

Began as international style in the 1950s but did not become a movement until the 70s. The AT&T building by Philip Johnson is an example of postmodern

The two Fridas

By Frida kahalo; painting depicts the Mexican and German sides of freed up. It is her conflicted self. Her husband who she was divorcing at the time Diego Rivera loved the Mexican one but hated the German one.

Surrealism

Celebrated subjectivity, intuition and chance. Liberating the individual unconscious including dream analysis and free association automatic writing word games and hypnotic trance is. Salvador Dali was an example. The persistence of memory

Ferroconcrete

Concrete strength and buy a core or foundation skeleton of iron or steel bars, strips, etc. also called armored concrete steel and most commonly reinforced concrete

Slide id. Carson, pririe, scott departments store

Currently called the Sullivan center it is located in Chicago Illinois and was built by Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham.

Detroit industry murals

Diego Rivera ; Series of frescoes consisting of 27 panels to picking industry at the Ford motor company. Considered to be Rivera's most successful work; Mexican Muralism.

Mexican muralism

Diego Rivera is an example. Miral celebrated history life of the Mexican people.

Dream of a Sunday afternoon in the Alameda Park

Diego Rivera; 50 foot fresco takes the viewer on a Sunday walk through the park in Mexico City's first park that was built on the grounds of the ancient Aztec marketplace. Represents the conquest, the dictatorship and the revolution in Mexican history. Mexican Muralism.

American regionalists

Documented American people and landscapes; sympathetic attitude towards their subjects American Gothic by Grant would

Slight ID untitled

Donald Judd; minimalism; located at the Guggenheim in New York city; rectangular copper shapes hung on the wall

Performance art

Examine the intersection of language and vision; the abstract idea and concrete imagery. Happenings such as smashing paint on canvas

Abstract expressionism

Expressed their social alienation in the wake of World War II and making art that was both Moral and universal. Action painting and color field painting. Also known as New York school. Example Jackson Pollock autumn rhythm

Slide ID: falling water

Frank Loyd Wright; Mill run, Pennsylvania. Use cantilevered tech nique to build the edgar Kaufman house

Schroeder house

Gerrit Rietvald, Utrecht, Netherlands, represents modern architecture or the international style. See definition above.

Slight ID: American Gothic

Grantwood; American regionalist; father with daughter who is unmarried because she's very ugly... And pitchfork

Slide ID: frank gehry

Guggenheim in Bilboa Spain Contemporary Very organic shape that looks like a giant ship paying homage to the shipping industry in that part of Spain Made of stone glass and titanium. Made him a master among architects

The migration series panel one

Harlem Renaissance; Jacob Lawrence. Represents the exodus of African-Americans from the rule south to the urban north. Panel one shows all of these people crammed into a train station

Benday dots

In modern printing and typesetting the dots that make up the lettering images. Often machine or computer generated, the dots are very small and closely spaced to give the effect of density and richness of tone Lichtenstein used this. Pop art

Modernism

Includes baushouse, mid century modern and international style. Frank Loyd Wright is an example of this type of architect

Slide ID autumn rhythm

Jackson Pollock; abstract Expressionism; a bunch of black white and beige crap on painting

Slide ID: one and three chairs

Joseph kosith;One would folding chair a photograph of a chair and the definition of a chair; conceptual art

Slide ID: lipstick ascending on Catapillar tracks

Klos Oldenburg; pop art; located at Yale University Lipstick like a missile coming out of a tank. Stands for make love not war

Conceptual art

Making art should be mental not physical. Joseph Kosuth. Example one and three chairs

Slide id: Fountain

Marcel Duchamp, dada, it's a urinal!!!!!!!

Number 61 (Rust and blue)

Mark Rothko; influenced by Kooning; vertical color believe known as color field painting.

Art Nouveau

Means new art in French. Popular style of the late 19th and 20th century giving us some of the worlds fanciest and most colorful buildings especially in Central Europe

Slide ID: object (luncheon in fur)

Merit Oppenheim; surrealism; cup saucer in spoon covered in for

Composition with yellow red and blue

Mondrian, de Stijl, Red yellow and blue squares that represent the two linear directions symbolizing the harmony of a series of opposites including male versus female and the individual over society as well as spiritual versus material. Demonstrates dynamic equilibrium. A universal style with applications beyond the realm of art

Slide ID: Frank Gehry

New World Symphony in Miami Florida 80 foot high glass curtain wall. Predominately glass and white plaster exterior to stay in commonality with Miami Beach is plaster and glass architectural look. Inside the atrium which is led by the sky during the day time you can see his style of curved forms

Slide ID: AT&T corporate headquarters

Philip Johnson; post modern; located in New York City. Also known as the Sony tower. 37 story high-rise skyscraper. Became immediately controversial for its ornamental top sometimes marked as "Chippendale"after the open pediments characteristic of the famous English designers bookcases and other cabinetry

Five points of architecture

Pilotis: reinforced concrete Roof garden: mean upbringing nature two homes. Free facade: consequence of concrete frame construction. Walls were then deprived of the constructional roll so they're designed became free Free plan : was also the consequence of construction as well. The plan is no longer limited by construction and is design is free Horizontal Windows : ribbon windows are the effect of the free plan. Gave a view of the outside which brought the outside in.

Deconstructivism

Post modern architecture that began late in the 1950s. Is characterized by fragmentation, and interest and manipulating a structure surface. The Guggenheim Museum bite Frank Grhry in Balboa Spain is an example

Slide ID: villa Savoye

Purism, Charles EDUARDO jennet. Pierres him. The architect renamed himself French for the crow. He used curtainwalls to construct the building and it is located in poised-sur-seine, France.

Treachery of images

Rene Magritte; oil on canvas; surrealist; The words below the pipe say in French this is not a pipe. The painting is not a pipe it is an image of a pipe

Slide ID: the persistence of memory

Salvador Dali; surrealism; paranoid critical method: clocks melting

Bauhaus

The house of building; building should have a socially useful function example is the bauhaus building Architecture

Harlem Renaissance

The new Negro; led by Alan locke;african-Americans were politically progressive in racially conscientious The migration series by Jacob Lawrence is an example

Pop art

Used popular culture as their subject. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein. Started in London and said to be Kitch or cheap

Action painting

Using broad jesters to drip or poor paint onto a painting surface. Associated with mid 20th century American abstract expressionist such as Jackson Pollock

Slide ID Bauhaus building

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus: house of building; dressed, germany