Modern Art Final

-Considered post-minimalism -galvanized steel with plastic tubing -industrial fabrication techniques -characteristic of female genitalia

"Accession II" Qualities

-rectilinear abstract designs based on color relationships -Gouache and pencil on paper -designed as a test for textile artists -Bauhaus design

"Albers Wall hanging" Qualities

-American Regionalism -Distinctive American genre, midwest -interested in German and Italian masters of portraiture -Salt of the earth, pillar of American values -almost caricature, but more honoring

"American Gothic" Qualities

-Abstract expressionism -Very loose, very free, less dense and more open in appearance. -More fall-like colors. -Transparent lines, light background color. -cannot rest your eyes anywhere -physical self-representation, unsettled movement -object is secondary, the point is to act

"Autumn Rhythm" Qualities

-Capitol of Brazil -complete modernist city -more of a thought project -planned community

"Brasilia" Qualities

-engaging with consumer culture -spurred by post-war America economic explosion -positioned against abstract expressionism -featured every type of Campbell's Soup -An array or grid, staple of pop art

"Campbell's Soup Cans" Qualities

-Marriage between art and life -Defeat distinction between fine art and craft -chased out of Weimar, taught typography -pedagogical design school, no ornament -not a hierarchy more of a collective -centers of learning as model -one of the first promotional images -woodcut, reproductive

"Cathedral for Program of the State Bauhaus in Weimar" Qualities

-Precisionism -captures New York City heights in an almost cubist style -based on a short movie, Manhatta

"Church Street El" Qualities

-supposed to be dirty/blown up, called ash can -represents the seedy underbelly of modern industrialism -part of the '8' of the ashcan school -sense of spotlighting

"Cliff Dwellers" Qualities

-made with industrial paints -artist as activist -had a NYC collective where Pollock studied -mix of abstraction and figuration -full portrayal of violent conflict -slaughter of indigenous people, mass suicide -fiery explosion of color, full of tension

"Collective Suicide" Qualities

-Colored Pencil on Paper -Inuit Art -Part of a Canadian Gov't initiative to have native people make native art to get them off gov't support -Modernist-Primitivist style cultivated by James Houston, sold well -Repeated faces grafted onto animal bodies -Shaman imagery popular with white audiences

"Composition (Shaman/Wolf Tansformation)" Qualities

-Neoplasticism -Dutch painting, very pictorial -Engage with the viewer as an object, abandon any reference to the physical world or artist's expression -influenced by theosophy, a higher order and balance underneath the worlds -no hierarchy between colors, no center point or perspective -always on the verge of failing, summoning a tension

"Composition no. 3" (Mondrian) Qualities

-Designed for Leonide Massine Opera -Implied Chinese setting, some level of Orientalism -Spare style and subtle color -Made of silk

"Costume for a Chinese Courtier in The Nightingale's Song" Qualities

-Nonsense name and images thrown together -guidance of themes and images without unity -Collage, rotating machine of images -deconstructive and yet it constructs a new reality -present old imagery in a new way no machine ever could do

"Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany" Qualities

-Wright was known for domestic architecture -flat planes moving and spreading out -local materials -large windows -inspired by Japanese design -bring nature into the house, meant to be organic -waterfall moves throughout

"Fallingwater, Bear Run, PA" Qualities

-Essential Dada -urinal turned upside down and given the name R. Mutt -R. Mutt was meant to be the common people. Saying that the everyday things the "important" people need are only there with the help of the common people. -Meant to make people question what the real meaning of art even is.

"Fountain" Qualities

-Circle dance in the 1880s incorporating native spirituality and christianity -Response to colonial bloodshed -Done to make white people disappear

"Ghost Dance" Qualities

-Refers to the incident in Spain in which over one thousand people were injured or killed being bombed by German fascists. This work serves as a memorial of the event and does not spare the horror. -Picasso only read about the event in newspapers and therefore the work was in black and white. -mix of cubism and surrealism -large project piece against Franco's regime -references Goya and other works referencing violence of war -jumbling mass of figures absorbed in blackness

"Guernica" Qualities

-small scale -biography deeply tied to her art: accident when young, split between US and Mexico, work always reflecting their identity. -painted on sheet metal, thin oil painting -delicate, sits on the surface, -looks flat or "less skilled" -references accidents or tragedy in the form of paintings taken to churches (votives). -magical properties of painting -deeply intimate and psychological -aftermath of a terrible miscarriage, almost a surrealist painting

"Henry Ford Hospital" Qualties

-Recovering former techniques of paintings, large mural cycles, artists concerned with social and labor reform -had a cubist phase, inspired by Mexican culture and community -disenchanted with abstract art, wanted to speak to the laboring classes -thought art had become kidnapped by the bourgeois -government project, mural cycle for the Ministry of Public education -decorated all courtyards and floors -more than 100 paintings -connecting fresco tradition and indigenous painting on walls and colonizers making christian murals -artist as important to the proletariat revolution

"In the Arsenal" Qualities

-Brazilian pop art -noted for political activism and anti-consumerism -the container always contains a message -add political statements to coke bottles that would be put back in circulation

"Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project" Qualities

-constructed from painted plywood -advent of minimalism -focus on artist manipulating material -wanted to capture the process of making

"Instillation at the Green Gallery" Qualities

-Global Pop Art, Italian -mocking the tradition of doing a close study of something in classical art -heightens the meaning of a brand -mass production and advertising as propaganda -political critique of US political hegemony

"Large detail of propaganda" Qualities

-Sculpture, 3-D photogram made from kitchen appliances -factory pieces -integrate machine and art -reimagine the machine's possibilites -simple beauty

"Light Space Modulator" Qualities

-photograph for social reform -dust bowl refugees going to California for work -taken at a squatter camp, as documentary as possible -subjects were meant to be representative not personal -focused on mother's grief and connects to the viewer -children purposely turning away -familiar visual language

"Migrant Mother" Qualities

-loosely evokes nature -evokes female genitalia -direct interest in associating with music

"Music, Pink and Blue, II" Qualities

-surrealist: created work drawing on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind. -fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon -Made by a woman in a male dominated genre

"Object (Luncheon in Fur)" Qualities

-sixty panels telling the story of African American migration to the North -vibrant colors, blocks of colors -angular figures and forms

"Panel 58 (In the North the Negro Had Better Educational Facilities), from the Migration series" Qualities

-Example of Dada Dance -Part of a famous cabaret -Dancing while burdened with a lot of different costume pieces -Essential piece of Dada live performance

"Presumed photo of Sophie Tauber-Art dancing at the Galerie Dada, Zurich" Qualities

-deconstructivist and dismantling traditions -challenging abstractivism, taking the artist out of it -manifested in pop culture -"combines" bringing things from average reality and juxtaposing them and engages with the tradition of individualism

"Rauschenberg Odalisk" Qualities

-Modernist house -primary colors with strong shapes -non-hierarchal and flexible floor plan -moveable wall panels to create functions -lack of load bearing walls -invite purity of nature -supposed to create a balance in life

"Schroeder House, Utrecht" Qualities

-elegance and the principles of modernism -granite surface plaza below -erode definition between interior and exterior

"Seagram Building" Qualities

-Earthwork sculpture considered conceptual art -made of black basalt rocks in a coiling clockwork shape -built in Utah

"Spiral Jetty Qualities"

-Rooted from racist stereotype; -cotton references slavery, - gun shows liberation -postmodern pop-art

"The Liberation of Aunt Jemima" Qualities

-incredibly famous artist but lost relevancy -embodied the wit and humor of pop art -denial of essential femininity -portrayal of women as an unstable idea -repetition of rational performative ideas -patriarchal logic of femininity

"The Party" Qualities

-Connect with an unconcious and autonomous mode of creation -dream imagery, tied to Jun and Freud -rejection of enlightenment realism -The familiar made unsetting -paralyzing tricks of eye fooling, juxtaposing and shocking -hyperrealistic, overturning the perceptions of reality -connects back to dream symbolism and eroticism of earlier western art (Bosch "Garden of Earthly Delights) -Degenerate art condemned by Nazis in 1937, deemed offensive and dangerous

"The Persistence of Memory" Qualities

-Received a violent reaction from the audience -Based on stories of Pagan Russia -Costumes and choreography considered vulgar and violent -Considered one of the first modernist works

"The Rite of Spring, Ballet Russes" Qualities

-meant to have a formal or aesthetic quality equal to any other medium -photograph -emphasized the pictorial elements

"The Steerage" Qualities

-Bauhaus' most famous dance composition -Encompassed Bauhaus values: modernity, geometry, experimentation, and functionality. -All based on threes: three dances, three acts w 12 choreographies, and 18 costumes -Explores human form in psychedelic ways

"The Triadic Ballet" Qualities

-German pop art referencing post-war reconstruction -showed outdated artworks, machines without function -stuck between escaping and recognizing the past -references to Nazi architecture and iconography -flip on the idea of grandiosity

"The Will to Power" Qualities

-Machine Age Art -"Return to Order" and purism after WWII -reconstructivist, geometric stability -Mid-point between cubism and purity -elemental forms of colors

"Three Women" Qualities

-site-specific art with minimalism -12-foot wall made of unfinished rust -installed outside government buildings in New York City -incredibly controversial, eventually removed, considered destroyed about removal from intended site -meant to redefine the space its in

"Titled Arc" Qualities

-Applied modernist techniques to Native Art -Moved towards abstract art -Depiction of Native spirituality -Was considered "inauthentic" to traditional native style

"Umine Wacipi (War and Peace Dance)" Qualities

-one of the artists affected by World War I -tap into something beyond everyday reality -rejected consumerism -Zurich Dada -Rejection of the artist as powerful, more unconscious/natural -Made from dropping pages on the floor, although it doesn't seem as natural as claimed

"Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance)" Qualities

-Minimalism -boxes project from the wall like a ladder -all placed with uniform color, construction, and distances -suggests and industrial production line -made in a factory

"Untitled (stack)" Qualities

-Five qualities of modern architecture: pilotis, open plan, free façade, horizontal strip window, roof garden -structural columns along needed for support -functionally concerned about the car -movement throughout the building

"Villa Savoye" Qualities

-Abstract expressionism. color field -tragedy and timelessness -title: "Heroic and Sublime man" -Latin, hyper-intellectualism -advances and immerses. very hard edge style -the bands as a gesture of the human figure

"Vir Heroicus Sublimis" Qualities

-Buffalo dreamer, an important, often male figure, painted as a woman -Abstraction from art made by women in his community -Modernist style that almost feels like a reflection of cubism

"Woman Buffalo Dreamer" Qualities

-Post-War Expressionism -Abstract Expressionism -Dutch art in NYC -a sense of record in the painting -seen as violent even if that wasn't the Intention -woman debased in art, against the heroic sublime man

"Woman I" Qualities

-Surrealism -Make the familiar strange, a life of hidden forces and desires -Looks live you've never seen it before -Objects on photo sensitive paper then exposed to light -really interested in Freud and the unconscious -Bring disparate things together to see them in a new way, break up the logic and order to shock the viewer out of conventional reality -art tied to sexual conquest and nude female form

Man Ray "Untitled, from Champs delicieux" Qualities