art midterm 1
ephemeral art
Art that is made to exist temporarily is called ephemeral art.
Ai Weiwei
Artist who is a symbol of rebellion against the Chinese government.
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler
Ericson and Mel Ziegler were influential collaborators in social interventionist art, flat wall work
Eva Hild
Eva Hild's sculptures oscillate between polarities: dark and light, inside and outside, white swirly sculptures
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a conceptual artist of African-American and Caribbean descent who's primarily known for rearranging art and artifacts in museum collections
Christian Boltanski
French Conceptual artist specializing in installations, focuses on memory and forgetting
Tim Hawkinson
Tim Hawkinson is an American artist and sculptor who focuses on answering questions about identity through his works -multimedia
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
cuban artist-is gay and uses that in his installations and sculptures-minimalism
Picasso
cubism, metal sculptures Picasso's works were among the first artworks to deny naturalism of the human form in figurative works, (1881-1973)
claus domine hanson
fossil series, ceramic artist
paul pitsker
identity My watercolor paintings combine still life with narrative elements intertwining themes of confinement and looming disaster.
Ron Mueck
*Contemporary/Hyperrealism* sculpture giant baby -
Superflex
-A Dutch Artist collective that solves social and political issues through their artistic practice. -In their work, Superflex alters existing spaces and technologies to serve a different purpose connected to environmentalism.
Post Commodity
-An artist collective based out the southwest. The group includes Kade L.Twist and Cristóbal Martínez. - -They use sound, installation, social practices to comment on and create an understanding of indigenous perspectives
Michael Heizer, Nevada based artist
-Credited as the first artist from the Land Art Movement to work in the western United States
Mark Dion, (B. 1961 - Present)
-Interested in ecologies and the interrelatedness of things. -He examines culture and the way that it interacts with nature. -His practice overlaps with other fields such as biology, anthropology, ornithology, botany, etc. -greenhouse big tree guy
Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964)
-Janine Antoni s a contemporary artist who creates work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. -She often uses her body, both as an entity, or paying particular attention to body parts as tools, utilizing her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and, through technological scanning, the brain, to create her artwork. -Many of her works comment on and replicate issues facing women that are often not talked about in the art world.
symparch
-Simparch is an American artist collective that was founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1996. -Simparch, investigates experimental architecture and technologies that are soft or slow and have a very small carbon footprint.
Environmental Art
-These works relate to the Land Art Movement but have become more specific and more inclusive of what ecology is and how public artworks and people interact with ecology
subtractive sculpture
A kind of sculpture technique in which materials are taken away from the original mass; carving.
Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 - July 20, 1973)
A pioneer of Land Art and Earthworks -Much of his work dealt with the clash between man-made and natural and how the two are more interconnected than what we think.
Carrie Mae Weems
An American artist who works with text, fabric, audio, digital images, and installation video but is best known for her work in the field of photography. Her work focuses on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity.
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.
Abstract Expressionism
An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors, lines and shapes. -new york -first major art movement -1950's
Anders Ruhwald
Anders Herwald Ruhwald creates large-scale installations that blur the lines of ceramics (black squares)
Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton is a visual artist who emerged in the early 1980s known for her large-scale multimedia installations
Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. (lots of little brown figures in room?)
Sherrie Levine
Appropriated famous photographs in order to question the belief in the unique qualities and authenticity of photographs.
the american clay revolution
At this time, America ceramics was heavily influenced by the Japanese ceramic aesthetic: -peter volkos created a new contemporary vision -1960's -emergence of the funk movement -super object: high crafted
ayumi horie
Ayumi Horie featuring handmade pottery of drawn animals, alphabets and multiplication tables.
brendan tang
Brendan Tang's ceramic sculptures are mash-ups of ... Chinese Ming dynasty vessels and "techno-Pop Art."
Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang prefers to make a statement with explosives.
Robert Arneson
Contemporary American artist, who often used himself as the subject of his works. -identity -sculpture
David Hammons
David Hammons is a contemporary American artist whose sculptural, print-based, video, and painted work offers a crucial interpretation of African-American art history.
Marcel Duchamp (B. France. 1887-1968)
Duchamp was a pioneer of Dadaism.As an artist Duchamp questioned long-held assumptions about what art should be and how it should be made. Duchamp also coined the term ready made which referenced objects that were mass-produced, commercially available, often utilitarian objects, designating them as art and giving them titles.
Nancy Holt,
Earthworks sun tunnels -Her work was among the first of its kind. Not only did Holt create land art, but her works focused on creating an awareness of a place for the viewer.
El Anatsui
El Anatsui is an artist who transforms found materials into large shimmering forms by assembling elements into vibrant patterns with unique visual impact.
elise siegel
Elise Siegel is a sculptor best known for her psychologically charged figurative ceramic works. (babies on chairs clapping), torsos, feet
orlan
French multimedia performance artist
Dan Graham: (B 1942)
Graham was among the first artists to consider the world, outside of a gallery, as a site for art and was a major influence on the development of Land Art
Haim Steinbach
Haim Steinbach is an American artist,. Many of his works consist of arrangements of mass-produced objects, displayed on shelves of his own design found objects
Peter Voulkos
He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. -american clay revolution
Wolfgang Laib
He works with natural materials but brings them into an indoor setting. In this sense, he controls nature. •Spends months gathering 'art' materials (pollen). •Meticulously arranged indoor installations. •Minimal in design & color. •Arrangement (disruption) of nature is obvious & perhaps this even dominates. •Through repetition of gesture, materials are laid down & arranged. •This repetitive action becomes ritualistic & enters the realm of meditative action. •He lives to gather & gathers to live...his life & art are one!
Marcel Duchamp
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art.
Amalia Mesa-Bains
Her works, primarily interpretations of traditional Chicano altars, contemporary, installations
James Luna
James Luna was a Payómkawichum, Ipi, and Mexican-American performance artist, photographer and multimedia installation artist. His work is best known for challenging the ways in which conventional museum exhibitions depict Native Americans -identity
Los Carpinteros
cuban art collective Fascinated by the intersection between art and everyday life
Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni is a contemporary artist who creates work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's works focus mostly on process and the transitions between the making and finished product.
Jeffrey Koons
Jeffrey Koons is an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects, such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces (michael jackson sculpture) (ceramic)
Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny is an artist and sculptor, primarily known for his work with glass blowing and assemblages of glass and mirrored glassed objects.
Donald Judd: (June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994)
Judd is considered to be one of the most influential artists Minimalism in art. Judd's own art theory writing, "Specific Objects" (1964), is considered as one of the most important factors that challenged Formalism in art. Formalism in art history refers to the attempt to make concrete, through analysis of an artwork, the meaning of a work of art it.
kathy butterly
Kathy Butterly has created distinct, evocative sculptures for more than two decades, goofy sculptures
Nikki S. Lee
Korean filmmaker who "plays" with identity -adopts other styles
kristin morgin
Kristen L. Morgin is an American visual artist working primarily in sculpture. She is best known for her works made of unbaked clay that use trompe-l'œil to appear as wood, paper, or metal and suggest decay.
mark dion
Mark Dion is an American conceptual artist. best known for his use of scientific presentations in his installations -found objects -hanging rats
Martin Puryear
Martin Puryear is a contemporary African-American artist best known for his large hand-crafted sculptures and intricate prints.
Linda weintraub
Linda Weintraub is an American art writer, educator and curator. She has written several books on contemporary art. Her most recent works address environmental consciousness that defines the ways cultures approach art, science, ethics, philosophy, politics, manufacturing, and architectur
Mark Quinn
Marc Quinn is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation and painting. Quinn explores 'what it is to be human in the world today' through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment and the media -identity
Gordon Matta-Clark (6, 22, 1943 - 8, 27, 1978)
Matta-Clark is an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. -His works examine the possibility of creating illogical objects or images. -He often works directly with abandoned buildings and industrial spaces which in turn become narratives in his work. -splitting house
Maurice Agis
Maurice Agis was a British sculptor and artist whose Dreamspace projects have drawn the involvement and work of various schools and art institutions all over Britain. -colorful mounds and you go inside
michael jones mckean
McKean's work explores the nature of objects in relation to folklore, technology, anthropology, and mysticis
Mike Kelly
Mike Kelley was an American artist regarded as one of the most influential members of the Conceptual Art movement. american
Chuck Close
Photo Realism in paintings
Sally Mann
Pictures of her children, often nude, much debated
Roxy Paine
Roxy Paine is a contemporary American artist best known for his tree-like structures he calls Dendroids.
Sergei Isupov
Sergei Isupov's work is figurative in both form and content. He creates sculptures combining human and animal elements
Sol LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007)
Sol LeWitt is considered the founder of both Conceptual Art and Minimalism.
Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt was an iconic American artist whose work helped to establish both Minimalism and Conceptual Art. ... Some of the artist's most integral pieces are his Wall Drawings, in which he explored myriad variations of applying drawn lines onto walls
Tara Donovan
Spatial installations with everyday items, paper plates, styrofoam cups, buttons, clouds and stalagmite forms
Damien Hirst
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living shark and animal in tank
Industrialization
The development of industries for the machine production of goods. -motivated artists from the concentration of wealth
Walter de Maria
Walter Joseph De Maria was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with Minimal art, Conceptual art, and Land art of the 1960s
Andrea Zittel
Zittel is a Los Angeles based artist. Her work deals with issues of domesticity, feminism, and Americana -Her works exist both as lived-in sculptures or living units and as gallery works. -Many of her works are fabricated from steel
composite
a combination; a blend of two materials with differing strengths
Peter Eisenman
architect holocaust memorial
Land Art/Earthworks
art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked
bill woodrow
born 1948 emerged in the 70's found objects highlights the history of the objects duality in everyday objects
Ron Nagle
ceramic abstract artsist, small scale with lots of detail
ken price
ceramic artist contemporary-abstract
marek cecula
ceramic artist, very clean looking work? porcelain, tea cups, plates?
Grayson Perry
ceramic vases
tyler lotz
contemporary ceramic (twisty snakes) influenced by natural and meditated landscapes
marie torbensdatter hermann
contemporary ceramic artist (also lots of cups but ceramic, bendy cups, fingerprint on bowl)
John Chamberlain
crushed car parts -abstract expressionism -1927-2011
Meyer Vaisman
latin contemporary art, large scale installations
tension
material pulled outward
Mona Hatoum
metal viewer interaction everyday objects turned scary
avant-garde
new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them.
cindy sherman
photographer, focuses on women issues and conveying herself -identity
rosalie favel
photography works with childhood memories Rosalie is a photo-based artist -identity Drawing inspiration from her family history and Métis (Cree/English) heritage,
piet stockmans
porcelain sculptures, (looks like lots of little cups)
shear
push two different ways
additive sculpture
sculptural form produced by adding, combining, or building up material from a core or (in some cases) an armature -assemblage -modeling
David Smith
stainless steel geometric shapes -one of the first to use metal as primary material -cubism, surrealism, and constructivism -1906-1965 -artsist i studied
Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 - 30 August 1991)
swiss sculptor (metal) inspired from dada artists -critiques consumers goods and people focusing on them
Jason Briggs
the art of jason briggs expresses strong sexual references, with hints of fetishism, porcelain
Claus Oldenburg
the pop artist of the 60s who tried to stun viewers into a new visual awareness with unfamiliar versions of familiar objects, such as a giant plastic sculpture of pillow-soft telephones -giant clothespin
Joseph Beuys
was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy. His career was characterized by passionate, even acrimonious public debate, but he is now regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
daniel j. martinez
work about racial differences -identity