2017 Artists Flashcards
Gordon Bennett - background and ism
- Australian 1955: APPROPRIATION
- discovered aboriginal heritage age 11
Jackson Pollock - background and ism
- American, 1912-1956: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
- personal involvement between artist and work
Paul Cezanne - background and ism
- 1939-1906: POST IMPRESSIONISM
Patricia Piccinini - background and ism
1965
Post modern
Basquiat - background and ism
African American, NEO EXPRESSIONISM
Mueck - Background and ism
1958, structural and subjective
Picasso - background and ism
1881-1973 Spanish, cubism
Duchampe - background and ism
Dada, readymade 1887-1968 French American
Smithson - background and ism
1938-73 environmental art
Goldsworthy - background and ism
British 1956, environmental art
Long - background and ism
British 1945 environmental, site specific
Christo & Jeanne Claude - background and ism
June 13, 1935, environmental art
Pollock - artwork info “Blue Poles”
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
Bennett - artwork info “Notes to Basquiat (death of irony)”
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
Basquiat - artwork info “Untitled (Skull)”
1981
- interior and exterior visible at the same time
- raw handling of paint and colour
- agitated and almost aggressive
- skull fills large canvas
- overlapping
Piccinini - artwork info “The Young Family”
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
Mueck - artwork info “Boy”
- took 9 months to create
- the realism is extreme, great attention has been given to skin texture
- powerful and confronting
- intense emotions
Cezanne - artwork info “The Great Bathers”
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
Picasso - artwork info “Guernica”
- 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
Duchampe - artwork info “Bicycle Wheel”
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
Smithson - artwork info “Spiral Hill’
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”
Goldsworthy - artwork info “Midsummer Snowballs”
- element if surprise and shock
- engages every day audience
- used materials collected from Scottish highlands
- concealed pieces of natural materials
Long - artwork info “Waterfall Line”
2000
- commisioned work
- shows human energy and intentionality
- transcience of time, distance, place
- site specific
Christo - artwork info “ Point Neuf Wrapped”
1985
- topographical and visual variety
- ropes maintained principle shapes
- silky in appearance and sandstone in colour
