ART 2400 VISUAL LANGUAGE QUIZ 1 STUDY GUIDE

Cai Guo-Qiuang

Alternative media processes. Used explosions on paper and canvas in studio.

Tony Oursler

American multimedia and installation artist.His art covers a range of mediums, working with video, sculpture, installation, performance, and painting.

Nan Goldin

American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic.

Sue Coe

Art as form of activism. monochromatic palette

Mike & Doug Starn (Starn Twins)

Collaboration, alternative materials.

El Anatsui

Found-object (alternative) material, patters recall traditional African woven cloth designs.

Laylah Ali

History in race in US (&other issues of abuse of power) drive most of the artist work

Jonathan Borofsky

Kinetic Art (motorized arm). Much of his work explores: what does it mean to be a worker? A man in today's world?

Robert Mapplethorpe

Known for large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men, along with celebrity portraits and homoerotic subjects.

Robert Gober

Mix of fabricated and found elements

Richard Prince

Restaged, reshot Marlboro man ad scenes. appropriation.

Barbara Kruger

Text usually featured. Feminist artist takes political stance in much of her work

Jenny Holzer

The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces and includes large-scale installations, advertising billboards, projections on buildings and other structures, and illuminated electronic displays.

Maya Lin

abstraction (of landscape). pattern. grid

Kiki Smith

anti-heroic, anti-romantic view of the body. fragmentation of the body.

David Wojnarowicz

appropriation of a natural history museum. politically active artist.

Raymond Pettibon

artist example of "bad drawing". connected to street and surfer culture.

Damien Hirst

found objects in fabricated cases. kinetic. pattern

Ed Rusha

illusionism. Object gives illusion of depth on 2D ground.

Cindy Sherman

is a feminist artist who addresses the way Western art has presented women for the "male gaze" by her self-portraits in photography. She sees gender as a socially constructed concept and an unstable one.

Robert Smithson

land art (earthwork). site specific work

Michael Heizer

land art. site specific. Used alternative tools:earthmovers.

Mark Tansey

large canvases, monochromatic

Paul McCarthy

large-scale outdoor sculpture. figurative abstraction. appropriation.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

large-scale, site-specific environmentalinstallations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric

Tina Barney

series of color photographs, documenting her upper-middle class urban "tribe". Subjects captured in their natural habitat.

Walter Demaria

site-specific installations. Land art(earthwork)

William Kentridge

south african multimedia artist.

Mary Ellen Mark

work raises privacy concerns. American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes

Kara Walker

• Site-specific installation • Figurative abstraction. Has both influenced & been influenced by techniques (e.g., projection & lighting) from contemporary theater set design • Silhouette, a traditionally "sweet," nostalgic cut-paper folk genre appropriated by Black artist For whole career she has tackled history of slavery/race in America

Jeff Wall

• Staged photo • Transparency in wall-mounted light box • Created environment suggests woman's room destroyed by an abusive partner • Artist then "documented" that scene • His influences include art history & cinema