Modern Art Exam 3

Earth Art

A largely American movement that uses the natural landscape to create site-specific structures, art forms, and sculptures.

post-minimalism

A range of art practices that emerged in the wake of Minimalism in the late 1960s. It serves to gather together a range of styles that are related, yet which often have very different, even opposing interests. This movement refers to tendencies such as Body art, Performance, Process art, Site-Specific art, and aspects of Conceptual art.

American Scene

An American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and Deep South. It arose in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression.

Post-Painterly Abstraction

Greenberg characterized this movement as linear in design, bright in color, lacking in detail and incident, and open in composition (inclined to lead the eye beyond the limits of the canvas). Most importantly, however, it was anonymous in execution: this reflected the artists' desire to leave behind the grandiose drama and spirituality of Abstract Expressionism.

Ash Can

Known for its gritty urban subject matter, dark palette, and gestural brushwork, this was a loosely knit group of artists based in New York City who were inspired by the painter Robert Henri. The group believed in the worthiness of immigrant and working-class life as artistic subject matter and in an art that depicted the real rather than an elitist ideal.

Video

Many artists of the era used ______ to make works that highlighted what they saw as TV's encroaching and progressively insidious power by producing parodies of advertising and television programs. They pointed provocative fingers at the way society had become (passively) entranced with television or had succumbed to its seductive illusions. By co-opting the technologies of this medium, artists brought their own perspectives to the table, rounding out the brave new world of broadcasting ability to include creative, idiosyncratic, and individualized contributions.

feminism

The movement of _____________ sought to create a dialogue between the viewer and the artwork through the inclusion of women's perspective. Art was not merely an object for aesthetic admiration, but could also incite the viewer to question the social and political landscape, and through this questioning, possibly affect the world and bring change toward equality.

Minimalism

The new art favored the cool over the "dramatic": their sculptures were frequently fabricated from industrial materials and emphasized anonymity over the expressive excess of Abstract Expressionism. Painters and sculptors avoided overt symbolism and emotional content, but instead called attention to the materiality of the works.

existentialism

The philosophy of ____________ was an influential undercurrent in art that aimed to explore the role of sensory perception, particularly vision, in the thought processes. This movement stressed the special character of personal, subjective experience and it insisted on the freedom and autonomy of the individual.

Harlem Renaissance

The prolific flowering of literary, visual, and musical arts within the African American community that emerged around 1920 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. There was no single style that defined the movement.

Pop

These kinds of artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, in this way seeking to elevate popular culture to the level of fine art. Perhaps owing to the incorporation of commercial images, it has become one of the most recognizable styles of modern art.

Op

This kind of art typically employs abstract patterns composed with a stark contrast of foreground and background - often in black and white for maximum contrast - to produce effects that confuse and excite the eye.

identity

This movement is a retrospective grouping together of several distinct struggles by groups and individuals. There is no single continuous history of it as a concept, and its development is marked instead by successive and/or overlapping social movements, with artists invested in those struggles often making art which reflected its concerns.

Fluxus

This movement sought to change the history of the world, not just the history of art. The persistent goal of most artists of this kind was to destroy any boundary between art and life. Its art involved the viewer, relying on the element of chance to shape the ultimate outcome of the piece.

291

This was a small gallery that was originally an outlet for exhibiting work by Photo-Secessionist photographers, but subsequently it became a preeminent center for the exhibition of modern European and American artists.

Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1960s

Who is the artist? What are these Conceptual sculptures? What decade date?

Hammons, Higher Goals, 1970s

Who is the artist? What are these Identity sculptures? What decade date?

Rosenquist, F-111, 1960s

Who is the artist? What are these Pop set of paintings? What decade date?

Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1910s

Who is the artist? What is this 291 Artists painting? What decade date?

De Kooning, Woman I, 1950s

Who is the artist? What is this Abstract Expressionism painting? What decade date?

Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimus, 1950s

Who is the artist? What is this Abstract Expressionism painting? What decade date?

Pollock, Number 1A, 1940s

Who is the artist? What is this Abstract Expressionism painting? What decade date?

Rothko, Untitled, 1940s

Who is the artist? What is this Abstract Expressionism painting? What decade date?

Smith, Cubi, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this Abstract Expressionism sculpture? What decade date?

Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, 1930s

Who is the artist? What is this American Scene painting? What decade date?

Wood, American Gothic, 1930s

Who is the artist? What is this American Scene painting? What decade date?

Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1910s

Who is the artist? What is this Ash Can painting? What decade date?

Sloan, Hairdresser's Window, 1900s

Who is the artist? What is this Ash Can painting? What decade date?

Abramovic, Rest Energy, 1980s

Who is the artist? What is this Body photograph? What decade date?

Burden, All the Submarines of the United States, 1980s

Who is the artist? What is this Body sculpture? What decade date?

De Maria, Lightning Field, 1970s

Who is the artist? What is this Earth Art sculpture? What decade date?

Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970s

Who is the artist? What is this Earth Art sculpture? What decade date?

Turrell, Roden Crater, 1970s

Who is the artist? What is this Earth Art sculpture? What decade date?

Appel, Angry Landscape, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this Existentialism painting? What decade date?

Bacon, Painting, 1940s

Who is the artist? What is this Existentialism painting? What decade date?

Dubuffet, Body of a Woman, 1950s

Who is the artist? What is this Existentialism painting? What decade date?

Giacometti, The Forest, 1950s

Who is the artist? What is this Existentialism painting? What decade date?

Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1970s

Who is the artist? What is this Feminism painting? What decade date?

Sleigh, Imperial Nude, 1970s

Who is the artist? What is this Feminism painting? What decade date?

Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this Fluxus photograph? What decade date?

Bearden, Folk Musicians, 1940s

Who is the artist? What is this Harlem Renaissance painting? What decade date?

Hayden, A Janitor Who Paints, 1930s

Who is the artist? What is this Harlem Renaissance painting? What decade date?

Stella, Die Fahne Hoch, 1950s

Who is the artist? What is this Minimalism painting? What decade date?

Judd, Untitled, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this Minimalism sculpture? What decade date?

Klein, Blue Monochrome, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this New Realism painting? What decade date?

Arman, Bluebeard's Wife, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this New Realism sculpture? What decade date?

Vasarely, Vega Per, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this Op Art painting? What decade date?

Hamilton, Just What Is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1950s

Who is the artist? What is this Pop collage? What decade date?

John's, Flag, 1950s

Who is the artist? What is this Pop painting? What decade date?

Kienholz, The Beanery, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this Pop painting? What decade date?

Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1950s

Who is the artist? What is this Pop painting? What decade date?

Warhol, Coca-Cola Bottles, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this Pop painting? What decade date?

Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1950s

Who is the artist? What is this Post-Painterly Abstraction painting? What decade date?

Hesse, Accession II, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this Post-minimalism sculpture? What decade date?

Winsor, Bound Grid, 1970s

Who is the artist? What is this Post-minimalism sculpture? What decade date?

Sheeler, Rolling Power, 1930s

Who is the artist? What is this Precisionism painting? What decade date?

Paik, TV Bra for Living Sculpture, 1960s

Who is the artist? What is this Video? What decade date?

New Realism

With this movement, French artists questioned the idea that art had to elevate, politicize, or idealize any subject. This questioning led to an intersection between art and life, narrowing the gap between artists and the public, allowing everyone to participate in and easily relate to a rich multiplicity of media, forms, and styles.

Body

________ art diffused the veil between artist and artwork by placing the body front and center as actor, medium, performance, and canvas. Lines were erased between message and messenger or creator and creation, giving new meaning to, and amplifying the idea of, authentic first person perspective.

Precisionism

_____________ is a style of representation in which an object is rendered in a realistic manner, but with an emphasis on its geometric form.

Conceptual

______________ Art is a movement that prizes ideas over the formal or visual components of art works.

abstract expressionism

a development of abstract art that originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the creative spontaneous act (e.g., action painting).