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2017 Artists Flashcards

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Gordon Bennett - background and ism

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  • Australian 1955: APPROPRIATION

- discovered aboriginal heritage age 11

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Jackson Pollock - background and ism

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  • American, 1912-1956: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

- personal involvement between artist and work

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Paul Cezanne - background and ism

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  • 1939-1906: POST IMPRESSIONISM
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Patricia Piccinini - background and ism

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1965

Post modern

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Basquiat - background and ism

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African American, NEO EXPRESSIONISM

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Mueck - Background and ism

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1958, structural and subjective

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Picasso - background and ism

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1881-1973 Spanish, cubism

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Duchampe - background and ism

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Dada, readymade 1887-1968 French American

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Smithson - background and ism

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1938-73 environmental art

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Goldsworthy - background and ism

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British 1956, environmental art

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Long - background and ism

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British 1945 environmental, site specific

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Christo & Jeanne Claude - background and ism

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June 13, 1935, environmental art

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Pollock - artwork info “Blue Poles”

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1952

  • creates a secondary rhythm across spidery lines
  • frenzy, however places of rest are created for viewers eye
  • action seems to continue off the picture plane, sense of energy
  • importance of gesture and the influence of psychology
  • ideas of modernism, abstractionism
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Bennett - artwork info “Notes to Basquiat (death of irony)”

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2002

  • reflects our age of globalisation and fear of terrorism
  • read from left to right (like islamic text) religion
  • colonial power
  • aboriginal xray imagery
  • first world affluence
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Basquiat - artwork info “Untitled (Skull)”

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1981

  • interior and exterior visible at the same time
  • raw handling of paint and colour
  • agitated and almost aggressive
  • skull fills large canvas
  • overlapping
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Piccinini - artwork info “The Young Family”

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2002

  • inspired by scientists genetic modification plans
  • ethical implications and evolution
  • human hair and silicon
  • realistic and recognisable human parts
  • feelings of weariness and new life
  • challenge us to consider consequences
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Mueck - artwork info “Boy”

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  • took 9 months to create
  • the realism is extreme, great attention has been given to skin texture
  • powerful and confronting
  • intense emotions
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Cezanne - artwork info “The Great Bathers”

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1898-1905

  • synthesis of traditional subject matter with innovative spatial construction
  • pyramidal arrangement
  • depicts air and space as well as solid form
  • traditional background and foreground distinctions no longer exist
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Picasso - artwork info “Guernica”

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  • monochromatic scheme reminds us of newspaper photograph and set sombre mood expressing pain and chaos
  • size is overwhelming therefore impossible to ignore messages
  • triadic design
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Duchampe - artwork info “Bicycle Wheel”

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1913

  • challnges role of gallery and high art
  • first kinetic sculpture
  • anti art establishment
  • comment on mechanisation
  • takes away function so audience look at it form and shadow
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Smithson - artwork info “Spiral Hill’

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1971

  • anticlockwise direction of the path forms an ancient symbol of destruction
  • transforms community perceptions about nature
  • “reorganised a disrupted situation and brought it back to some kind of shape”
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Goldsworthy - artwork info “Midsummer Snowballs”

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  • element if surprise and shock
  • engages every day audience
  • used materials collected from Scottish highlands
  • concealed pieces of natural materials
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Long - artwork info “Waterfall Line”

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2000

  • commisioned work
  • shows human energy and intentionality
  • transcience of time, distance, place
  • site specific
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Christo - artwork info “ Point Neuf Wrapped”

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1985

  • topographical and visual variety
  • ropes maintained principle shapes
  • silky in appearance and sandstone in colour

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