VISART 2

Feminist art program

1. designed by Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro 2. Judy Chicago designed the dinner party and has many biographies/ auto-biographies 3. they were appalled at how sexist art in the West was 4. final exhibition in mansion because showcases were still under construction

California Institute of Art

1. threw more out the window than the bauhaus 2. art is about being experimental 3. in 1961, joined LA conservatory of music and college for Disney animators 4. financed by Disney to train animators 5. seen as next Bauhaus 6. hired critical art thinkers/ professors (ins. by Nova Scotia College of art and design, V of C at San Diego, Harnsey College of Art in London)

the shapes, forms, and bright colors of Brazilian culture

Beatriz Milhazes' Carambola is based on...

European experience

Bierstadt's picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains combines a representation of an American vista with his?

treason of images

Rene Magritte; images and words refer to things we see, but not the thing itself

non-objective

no reference to the concrete world

Islamic art

preference of word over image... calligraphy is popular

visual literacy

the ability to recognize, understand, and communicate the meaning of visual images

representational art

the terms naturalistic or realistic art are sometimes used to describe this...

Rene Magritte

treason on images

iconography

uses symbolic images

the green dress

Jan von Eyck's Giovanni Arnolfini uses iconography in...

Post-Studio course

John Baldessari; 1. no longer necessarily needed to know how to make something, but be able to think about art conceptually 2. the concept before the medium 3. openness to ideas first, think on your feet

a voyeur

Larna Simpson's series, The Park, includes both images and printed words. The text contributes to the prints in a way that makes the viewer more active in the work. What does the viewer become?

ethnocentric

What kind of reading does Kenneth Clark illustrate in his assessment that an Ancient Greek statue represents a higher state of civilization than a West African mask?

art schools

are the most expensive schools you can attend... art schools are criticized because of the lack of substantial overlap between working artists and art school graduates

John Baldessari

challenges what art is, why we think it is art, etc; he taught his students to be artists by refusing to give his students specific assignments and instead gave them options they could try

ledger drawings

created by Howling Wolf while in prison