Additional Art Flashcards
Made “Rice/Tree/Burial”
Agnes Denes
How does Denes describe “Rice/Tree/Burial”
As a manifesto
How many components are in “Rice/Tree/Burial”
3
Where was “Rice/Tree/Burial” carried out
Sullivan County, NY
Explain the rice in “Rice/Tree/Burial”
The rice is actual rice that Denes planted, as a gesture and actual means to sustain life
Explain tree in “Rice/Tree/Burial”
The tree is a group of mature trees that’s wrapped in chains which creates a zigzag pattern of metal reaching up toward the sky, as a symbolic expression of human damage and interference with the natural world
What is the zigzag pattern of the trees in “Rice/Tree/Burial” symbolizing
Expression of human damage and interference with the natural world
Explain burial in “Rice/Tree/Burial”
The burial staged was of burying a haiku poem she had written which she didn’t keep a record of since part of her expression was to give up human thought and the conventions of poetic form into the earth
Where was Denes asked to recreate “Rice/Tree/Burial”
Artpark, an outdoor space for site-based artworks in Lewiston, NY
What was different about the rice in Denes recreation of “Rice/Tree/Burial”
Rice was planted on half-acre land, but its growth was affected by mutations from contaminants in the soil
Where did the contaminants from Artpark arose from
To its proximity to Love Canal, an abandoned waterway off of the Niagara River in Niagara Falls
How many tons of toxins were dumped by the Hooker Chemical Company in the mid-20th century
21,000 tons
Dumped 21,000 tons in Love Canal in the mid-20th century
Hooker Chemical Company
What is the Hooker Chemical Company called now
The Occidental Petroleum Company
What was different about the tree in Denes recreation of “Rice/Tree/Burial”
Nothing- the trees were still chained
What was different about the burial in Denes recreation of “Rice/Tree/Burial”
She didn’t bury a poem but instead a time capsule that’s encased in 9 ft of concrete, with a plaque indicating that it shouldn’t be opened until 2979
When should the time capsule in the recreation of “Rice/Tree/Burial” be opened
2979
How thick is the concrete in which the time capsule in “Rice/Tree/Burial” encased in
What additional thing was added into the recreation of “Rice/Tree/Burial”
A fourth element - a act of filming the precipice of Niagara Falls for a sustained period of 7 days, while propped out over the falls on a constructed ledge
How many days was there for filming the precipice of Niagara for the recreation of “Rice/Tree/Burial”
7 days
For “Tree Mountain” what does Denes return to
time capsules
(Tree Mountain) Denes thought of trees as their own kind of
living time capsule
(Tree Mountain How many trees were in Denes proposed pattern and how many people planted them
10,000 trees and 10,000 people to plant them
(Tree Mountain) What was the idea for the pattern
Intricate geometric spiral
How long did it take Denes to find the funds for “Tree Mountain”
A decade
Who funded Denes for “Tree Mountain”
The government of Finland
Where did the government of Finland announce they are funding for Denes for “Tree Mountain
1992 Earth Summit Rio de Janeiro
(Tree Mountain) How many trees were actually planted and how many people planted them
11,000 trees and 11,000 people
(Tree Mountain) For how long does the person who planted the tree have ownership of that tree
For a period of 400 years
What was the Watts Tower Arts Center named after
The independent artwork created in the LA neighborhood of Watts by Simon Rodia
Made independent artwork in the LA neighborhood of Watts
Simon Rodia
Purifoy created and exhibited a series of “junk art” sculptures in an exhibition called
66 Signs of Neon
The exhibition “66 Signs of Neon” arose as a direct response to
the August 1965 Watts Rebellion
Who did Purifoy worked alongside of to organize an exhibition of assembled sculpture created from the found refuse
Judson Powell
What materials did Purifoy and Powell start with for their exhibition
The lead of melted neon signs and added works by 6 additional artists
How many artists did Purifoy and Powell use the works of for their exhibition
6 additional artists
How many objects were in Purifoy and Powell’s exhibition
66
What social message was associated in Purifoy’s and Powell’s exhibition
Racial discrimination and police violence in communities of color
How many years did Purifoy spend creating outdoor works of art
15 years, up until his death
An environmental issue that “66 Signs of Neon” embodies
Toxicity of building materials
Name of the installation of sculptures around Purifoy’s home
Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum
2 sculptures included in the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum
Carousel” and “Bowling Balls I
The art piece that includes small structures that one can enter and walk around in
“Carousel”
A sculpture in the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum that is a more conventionally freestanding sculpture
Bowling Balls I
All the works in Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum employ found objects like
bowling balls, cafeteria trays, wire, old tires, televisions and other household appliances, and scrap metal
“Offshore Drilling” is located beside
Ode to Frank Gehry
Describe “Ode to Frank Gehry”
an all-white sculpture that’s suspended on poles
“Ode to Frank Gehry” is named after
the prominent LA architect whose buildings define the image of cities not only in Southern California, but all over the world
Where is Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum located in
Bilbao, Spain of 1997
What materials does Gehry used for his later buildings
Titanium Panels
Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum if fashioned in
distinctive titanium panels
Artwork that Gehry uses titanium panels in
the Disney Philharmonic in downtown LA
Gehry’s work became a marker of
larger-scale urban gentrification
Made “Double Mona Lisa (Peanut Butter and Jelly)”
Vik Muniz
Materials used to create “Double Mona Lisa (Peanut Butter and Jelly)”
only jelly on the left side of the composition and only peanut butter on the right side
Made the “Mona Lisa”
Leonardo da Vinci
What is the final work of “Double Mona Lisa (Peanut Butter and Jelly)” take
Side by side comparison of both the “Mona Lisa” and “Double Mona Lisa (Peanut Butter and Jelly)”
“Double Mona Lisa (Peanut Butter and Jelly)” is part of which larger series
After Warhol
Which Pop artist’s work does Muniz reference with “Double Mona Lisa”, and what kind of work did this artist create featuring the “Mona Lisa”
Pop artist Andy Warhol, who created a silk-screened side-by-side double portrait of the “Mona Lisa”
which other contemporary icons did Andy Warhol create portraits of
Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley
Made “Action Photo, after Hans Namuth”
Vik Muniz
materials used to refashion Hans Namuth photograph in “Action Photo, after Hans Namuth”
chocolate syrup
depicted in Hans Namuth’s 1950 documentary photograph
the postwar American artist Jackson Pollock at work in his studio
year that Hans Namuth’s iconic documentary photograph of Jackson Pollock taken
1950
kind of painting techniques did Hans Namuth’s photographs help communicate about Jackson Pollock’s work
the dripping, splashing, and brushing techniques that Pollock used to create his paintings
How does the material of chocolate syrup in “Action Photo, after Hans Namuth” relate to the original photographs style and Pollock’s painting method
chocolate syrup mimics the format of Namuth’s black-and-white photographs with its single, dark, shiny color, and it also plays with the fact that it is a material that is poured, like Pollock’s paint
Made the series “The Best of Life”
Vik Muniz
series in which Vik Muniz developed the role of memory even more forcefully
The Best of Life
How did Vik Muniz create the works in “The Best of Life” series
Muniz would sketch, from his own memory, well-known photographs from Life magazine and then re-photograph his recreation, in effect creating a photograph of a (memory) drawing of a photograph
well-known photograph that Vik Muniz recreated from memory in “The Best of Life” series
JFK Jr. Saluting His Father’s Coffin
3 other photographs that Vik Muniz recreated from memory in “The Best of Life” series
Man Stopping Tank in Beijing”, “Kiss at Times Square”, and “Man on the Moon
Which of Muniz’s memory renderings is also referenced in “Land Mark (Foot Prints)”
Man on the Moon
name of the film that documented Muniz’s process
“Waste Land” (2010)
Made the film “Waste Land”
Lucy Walker
Painting that dramatized the murder of the French painter Revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat in his bath
Death of Marat
