Study book 22

Throughout time, and especially in the 1960s and 1970s, what are some of the questions that art and artists ask us to consider?

Is art a part of everyday life? Is it important to see the world through art? What is it like to be in the world as it is now?

Why is the Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture a famous piece of architecture?

It is turned inside out, with exposed duct work and an escalator going up the side.

Artists exploring identity might include which themes?

Sexual orientation Gender Race

What does artist Kara Walker want her viewer to think about and not brush under the rug of history?

The horrors of slavery and early life for African Americans, especially in the South

What is the artist focusing on in Process art?

The materials used and the method of construction

What do body art and performance art have in common?

The presence of the artist within the work of art

What are the common characteristics of Abstract Expressionist works?

The technique of automatism A large scale Nonrepresentational subjects

What do works of art made from lines of text, or words, ask of the viewer?

They pose a question to the viewer. They ask the viewer to think.

For what did artists of the 1960s sought to use land art?

To take art out of the galleries and create work that could not be bought

True or false: Minimal art had an industrial fabricated look that was very impersonal.

True

Whereas Minimalism favors tough, industrial materials, Process art tends to favor what kinds of materials?

Unconventional, ephemeral, and temporary materials

What are common characteristics found in Minimalist sculptures?

Use of industrial materials Emphasis on simple geometric shapes

Look at this image. What technology is the artist using in this performance?

Video and projection

Both Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were _______ artists, although the appearance of the final art work is different, they both used objects that were first created for a different purpose, and re purposed them into their art work.

assemblage

During the 1960s and 1970s artists were concerned with jolting the American public out of its complacent, conformist society and into ______.

awareness

At the beginning of the 20th century, in works such as Still Life on Table: "Gillette" and The Emigrant, artists began incorporating text into art.

cubist

The Abstract Expressionists large scale was designed to ______ the viewer, as though in a movie theater.

engulf

Over a decade Matthew Barney created videos that use cinematic scale to create an artwork.

five

Conceptual art is art in which the ______ is the most important aspect, and the form is secondary.

idea

Spaces created by an artist solely for a person to have an immersive experience are called .

installation

True or False: Donald Judd made his artwork Stack with his bare hands.

False

True or false: Photorealism cannot exist without photography, and vice versa.

False

Look at this image. What is noticeably unusual about this sculpture?

It seems to be about anything in particular. It projects from the wall as opposed to being on a stand.

What does the camera do to an image that is part of the fascination for photorealists such as Chuck Close?

It slightly distorts the image.

In performance art, how does the artist appear during the event?

Live and in person

Pop artists dealt with which type of subject matter?

Mass-produced images from advertising and the media

Works such as Donald Judd's Untitled (Stack), with its simple repeating iron boxes, fits into which 20th-century art movement?

Minimalism

In Land art, the artist in some way intervenes in a .

landscape

The 1970s revealed to many that the trajectory of history was being questioned. The inclusion of ______ and ______ into the story line further deepened the doubt about what would come next.

women; minorities

What kind of artwork is installation art?

Artwork that is meant to provide an experience for viewers.

Mixing life up with art, often with a dose of humor, artists in the sixties, making assemblages or creating Happenings were compared by critics to an earlier movement, which was called art.

Dada

Which artist continued to explore new expressions of color field painting, expanding on the innovations of the original New York school painters?

Helen Frankenthaler

Due to its ephemeral and nonphysical nature, what can be said about art created on the Internet?

It can never be truly owned in the way a singular painting or sculpture can.

Which composer wrote and gave speeches that influenced the art work called assemblages and Happenings?

John Cage

Look at this image. In this Rauschenberg work, what familiar objects can be seen?

Postcard Man's shirt Paint tube Stuffed eagle

The era or new phase of art after the modern period is called ______.

Postmodernism

What mythological creature does Barney use as his main character in his video series Cremaster?

Satyr

What does the viewer see when watching Nauman's video performance Poke in the eye/Nose/Ear?

The artist's body responding to being poked

During what time period did digital technology develop most rapidly?

The last two decades of the 20th century

The field of was the first to use the term postmodern to describe a structure.

architecture

Art that focuses on the traditional female experience was a part of the early phase of ________ art.

feminist

Look at this image. The rectangles are irregular and full of variety, which indicates they are ______.

handmade

The "pop" in Pop art is short for the word .

popular

Feminist organizations were formed around issues such as equal _____ and equal ______.

rights; pay

Look at this image. In this work, the panels are made of fiberglass and latex that many viewers feel allude to ______.

the human body

A work of art where the idea or ideas it represents are paramount to the actual object is considered to be art.

Conceptual