ART 101 FINAL
Edvard Munch, The Scream/Cry
Record the impact of a remembered scene. Influenced expressionism
Salon des Refuses
Salon on the Rejected, sponsored by the government, was looked down upon by the public
Orientalism: Edward Said
Stereotype: A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. The creation of stereotypes by essentialize in and generalizing elements of a culture (person, place). The stereotypes are then become part of our understanding of that culture. Edward said use the term to describe a pervasive Western tradition, both academic and artistic, of prejudiced outsider interpretations of the east shaped by the attitudes of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries
Minimalism
Strip down to the bare essentials. Self-sufficient without subject matter. Fabricated from industrial materials.
Rene Magritte
The Treason of Images (This is not a Pipe). developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar
Salvador Dali
Un Chien Andalou movie. to shock the public and explore the human psyche.
New York school: feminism
Woman house, Judy Chicago. 1971-72. explores history of gender roles
Picasso, Braque
analytical cubism: objects are analyze, broken up and reassembled it in abstracted form
cubism
and alternative to linear perspective organization of space developed by Pablo Picasso and George Brock in the early 20th century. Built from a collection of observations, objects are seen from several angles simultaneously.
Neo-classical and David (artist)
associated with the enlightenment; David most famous work is The Oath of the Horatii (values of patriotism, self sacrifice, fidelity)
Collage: example is Still Life with Chair Caning (Picasso)
by 1912, Picasso wanted to find a way to bring the real world more directly into cubist pictures. He did it by literally attaching bits and pieces from every day life-inventing collage. The first was still life with chair-Caning, where cubist painting is mixed with a printed pattern of chair caning on it.
Giorgio de Chirico
called his artwork metaphysical pictures; his works are pre/Proto-surrealism
New York school: Robert Rauschenberg
combines Claes Oldenburg..... Painting relates to both art and life. Art and real world. His first combines is the bed. Combines: technique of attaching found objects to a traditional campus support.
realism
depiction of life without sentimentality of the romanticist
Cézanne
father of cubism, simplified forms to their natural shapes
New York school: guerrilla girls
feminist group of arts and professors: eliminate bias against women and people of color in the art world
The Salons and Academic Art
in the mid-19th century, a style of painting emerged that integrated aspects of neoclassicism and romanticism into a highly acceptable, and popular, formula. This style was approved by the French Royal Academy of painting and sculpture, which organized annual exhibits, known as Salons, accepting or rejecting submitted works and handing out prizes. The works that won critical praise and patronage (which became known as academic art) were extremely detailed and colorful scenes from history, literature, mythology, or exotic lands.
De Stijl
influenced by Mondrian. They declared that are in life were no longer separate domains.finding practical solutions to universal problems. designed furniture in buildings
abstract expressionism: Jackson Pollock
influenced by surrealists, especially the use of automatic picture making
Happenings: Allen Kaprow
installation and performance, happenings in six parts in 1959, Reuben gallery, New York. Characteristic: aspect of improvisation, one-time experience, audience participation and it can occur in any space. and free of charge you can't buy a happening anti-consumerism.
primitivism
is a Westin art movement that borrows visual forms from non-western or prehistoric people's
drip technique/painting: know what it is, associated with Jackson Pollock
is a form of abstract art in which paint is dripped or poured onto the canvas
Fauves
literally the "Wild beast," a group or French artists led by Henri Matisse in the early 1900s. They ignored perspective and used bright colors as a source of pleasure.
abstract expressionism: Alexander Calder
mobiles and stabiles: stationary sculptures, usually red or black, biomorphic and abstract in shape.
Japonisme and Ukiyo-e
of a love of all things Japanese, floating world
surrealism
originated in 1910 and early 20s-exploration of the subconscious. Influenced by Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. The unconscious/subconscious mind is the birthplace of creativity. Automatism: (free association m) automatic writing, drawing, painting.
New York school: Jasper Johns
painted "what the mind already knows" the familiar things, flags, targets
reinvention
projection of one cultural symbol is in on another
Marcel Duchamp
ready-made, nude descending a staircase had elements of cubism and futurists. ready-made: manufactured object designated by the artist as a work of art.
romanticism
rejected neoclassical art. Looked inside themselves for the truth
abstract expressionism: Henry Moore
sculptor, inspired by the Toltec-Maya. figure he saw at the Louvre. The reclining figure becomes a motif in his sculptures
action painting: gesturing, use of whole body
sometimes called gestural abstraction, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being careful he applied.
Italian futurism
speed, movement, cars, airplanes, industry and technology
ready-made
use a pre-existing object and incorporate into an artwork
Pointillism: George Seurat
uses dots and creates an optical mix, blending. Science and art. his master piece : A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte, 1884
Paul Gauguin
vision after the sermon, or Jacob wrestling with an angel, used symbolism. Tahitian paintings he you some fictional and nonfictional elements in his paintings
Dada
waged war on conventional thinking. antiwar movement. Rejected conventional reason and logic. Embrace the crazy, absurd, irrational and intuitive
Modernity
was coined by Charles Baudelaire to describe the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis (Paris) and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.
New York school: performance art
Chris Burden. tested his own psychological and physical limits with performances like shoot. He challenges our basic assumptions about what an artist is supposed to do and what art is.
abstract expressionism: Mark Rothko
Color field color-field painting: art based on simplified, large format, color dominated fields
postimpressionists
A group of unrelated artist who reacted to the ideas of the impressionists
Vasily Kandinsky
A truly abstract/non-representational painting. universal human emotions and ideas, spirituality. generally regarded as the pioneer of abstract art.
Pop art
Andy Warhol: "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." Roy Lichtenstein: used benday dots, appropriation art (comic books). Plays with stereotypes as a commentary on life
impressionist
Monet-quality of light and atmosphere through color. Renoir-human interactions and moods. Mary Cassatt-painted women and children. Edouard Manet-not an impressionist, but considered the father of Olympia. Degas is not an impressionist, but lumped into it. Edgar Dégas is best known for his depictions of ballerina.
Futurists
Italian movement. Themes of the future, technology, mechanical, movement to glorify modernity.
Auguste Rodin
Gates of hell, father of modern sculpture. were originally designed as a doorway to be cast in bronze for a new Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.
Vincent van Gogh
German expressionism followers of him
expressionism
German, make inner feelings visible, used African and archaic art as a means to express the feelings of anger