Ch 33 Art since 1950

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Pop Art

art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.

assemblage

art that is made by assembling disparate elements - often everyday objects - scavenged by the artist or bought specially

Earthworks and Site Specific Art

artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork.

Conceptual Art

An American avant-garde art movement of the 1960s that asserted that the "artfulness" of art lay in the artist's idea rather than its final expression.

Benday dots

In modern printing and typesetting, the individual dots that, together with many others, make up lettering and images. Often machine- or computer-generated, the dots are very small and closely spaced to give the effect of density and richness of tone.

combines

The name American artist Robert Rauschenberg gave to his assemblages of painted passages and sculptural elements.

Feminism

The belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men

Minimalism Art

emphasizes extreme simplification of form, as by the use of basic shapes and monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style

silkscreen

method of printmaking using a stencil and paint pushed through a screen

Warhol's "The Factory"

name of Andy Warhol's New York City studio


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