3 Flashcards
armory show
responsible for the eventual shift of
the center of the art world from Paris to New York.
harlem renaissance imspired (2)
- jacob lawrence
2. romare bearden
dada
post-wwi. originated
among a group of disaffected intellectuals living in
Zurich and grew out of the angst of artists who were
disillusioned with the war. Dada was an art that
aimed to protest against everything in society and
to lampoon and ridicule accepted values and norms.
Duchamp, in fact, invented a new category of artworks
that he referred to as
ready mades
ready-mades. what were they
By taking
an ordinary object and giving it a new context,
Duchamp would create a work of art. In this way,
Duchamp challenged traditional ideas about the
way the artist functions-rather than physically
making a work of art, an object became a work of
art merely through the artist’s choice.
bull’s head
in a famous work Picasso took
an ordinary object-bicycle handlebars-and made
them appear as bull horns when coupled with a bicycle
seat
surrealists
Some artists, influenced by the theories of Sigmund
Freud, attempted to portray the inner workings
of the mind in their artworks. This group of artists
became known as the Surrealists and included
artists such as Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Joan Miro .
One of the most influential events in the history of
art took place in Germany
btwn WWI and WWII. bauhaus was established
bauhaus
school of design. established standards for architecture
and design that would have a profound influence on
the world of art. The Bauhaus made a bold attempt
to reconcile industrial mass-manufacture with aesthetic
form
bauhaus view
form should follow function and should be true to the materials used
josef albers
bauhaus faculty. came to US after nazis closed down the school.
During the 1950s the art scene in New York was
dominated by
the ideas and writings of critics such
as Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg
greenberg was an advocate for
abstraction
Abstract Expressionism
Beginning in the 1940s, Abstract Expressionist
artists followed Kandinsky’s dictum that art, like
music, could be free from the limitations of pictorial
subject matter. These artists aimed at the direct
presentation of feeling with an emphasis on dramatic
colors and sweeping brushstrokes.
abstract expressionism reached its pinnacle with the work of
jackson pollock
Abstract Expressionist works tended to fall into
two types:
action painting and color field paintings
action painting
employed dramatic
brushstrokes or Pollock’s innovative dripping
technique
color field paintings
featured
broad areas of color and simple, often geometric
forms.
two wellknown
color field artists.
mark rothko and josef albers
jasper johns
created a series of works that
featured common things such as flags, numbers,
maps, and letters.
Robert Rauschenberg
created sculptures from the cast-off objects
he found around him to create what he called “combines.”
pop art
1960s. incorporation of images
of mass culture, violated the traditional unspoken
rules regarding what was appropriate subject
matter for art.
andy warhol
icon of pop art. His soup cans, Brillo boxes,
and images of movie stars were created with a factory-like
silkscreen approach that he used to mock
the art world.
roy lichtenstein
adopted the imagery of comic books and
recreated them on such a large scale that the pattern
of dots used to print them was made massive
robert indiana
used stencils that had been
originally used to produce commercial signs to create
his own artistic messages.
minimalism
sought to reduce art to its barest
essentials, emphasizing simplification of form and
often featuring monochromatic palettes
hard edge painting
invention of acrylic paint and the airbrush enabled Minimalist
painters to achieve very precise outlines,
which resulted in the term “hard-edge painting.”
frank stella
The artist who is best known for these large, entirely
non-objective paintings
david smith medium
stainless tell
dan flavin medium
neon tubing
photorealism
a hyper-real quality results from the
depiction of the subject matter in sharp focus, as in
a photograph
2 photorealist artists
chuck close, duane hanson
One intriguing development in the contemporary
art world since the 1970s
art is no longer
limited to gallery or museum spaces, and many important
works of art are departures from traditional
formats.
christo and jeanne-claude
earthworks. Beginning
in Europe, Christo startled the world with the
idea that landscape or architecture is something that
can be packaged. He wrapped several well-known
monuments in fabric, built a twenty-four-mile-long
cloth fence in California, surrounded eleven Florida
islands with pink plastic, and set up orange fabric
gates on pathways throughout Central Park.
postmodernism
takes many forms across a variety of media. Postmodern works
tend to reintroduce traditional elements or to exaggerate
modernist techniques by using them to the
extreme. Postmodern works often return to earlier
styles, periods, and references and often question
the mores and beliefs of contemporary society.
phillip johnson
leading propoent of postmodernism. at one time
was known as one of the leading modern architects
of the International Style. suggested the radical
idea that one of the functions of art was decoration,
and with the AT&T (now Sony) Building (1984), he
added a finial to the top of the standard office tower.
emperor of qin
first emperor to unite the kingdom. He had a
full army of soldiers and their equipment, including
their horses, created life-size in clay and buried as
part of his tomb.
which medium was popular during tang dynasty
ceramic
what
often astonishes people unfamiliar with the art of
India is
the influence of greek art on the classical images of buddha
japanese artistic traditions favor (2)
isometric perspective and flat areas of color
japanese artists are best known in the western world for
printmaking
Oceania is the collective name for the thousands
of islands that constitute
Polynesia, Melanesia,
and Micronesia
asmat
melanesian. most important artistic traiditons related to warfare. they traiditonally engaged in head hunting practices. Enormous
carved wooden shields decorated with beautiful
black, red, and white abstract patterns were traditionally
used for protection in raids among groups
throughout the area; today these shields are seen as
cultural symbols, but they no longer serve the same
function in war.
maori
of New Zealand seek cultural renewal by reviving
old traditions in a new context.
Following the Koran’s scriptures,
Islamic art is
largely non figurative
mosque
features qibla wall facing toward mecca; site for communal prayer
best known pyramid in the ancient americas
pyramid of the sun in mexico
the
majority of artifacts from ancient american cultures are only
from the last
2000 years
During the later
centuries of the prehistoric period, the Native
Americans of the Southwest demonstrated remarkable
architectural skills in
the building of pueblo
complexes.
6 formal qualities of art
line, shape, form, space, color, and texture
most basic of art elements
line
The strict definition
of a line is
path of pt moving thru space
Horizontal and vertical lines create
stable and static feeling
Horizontal lines, such as the line
of the horizon, suggest a feeling of
peace and tranquility
shape vs form
shape 2d, form 3d
organic shapes/forms
living things
tend to be freeform and irregular in shape or form..tend to express movement and rhythm.
A geometric shape or form can convey a sense
order and stability
space
an element of art related to the organization
of objects and the areas around them.
