Art Movements Flashcards
An art style that attempts to replicate real-life to critique a socio-political aspect.
Highlights political and social issues like poverty, injustice and corruption within a society.
Social Realism
Artworks from this movement captured the hardship of everyday life stemmed from the Great Depression in the United States.
Darker, more sombre colours were generally used in artworks.
Social Realism
The social issue portrayed in this painting is In the 1930s, America was becoming more urbanised. In the Great Depression, a lot of farms were lost due to the economic crisis.
The detailed portrayal of everyday rural life has made the painting an iconic representation of American identity and values.
American Gothic, Grant Wood - Social Realism
THE POWER OF MUSIC, 1847 WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT
EMIGRANTS, 1922 EMIL ORLIK
Social Realism
Is a form of art in which the artist uses their body actions. Known as artistic action. It involves five basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, and the relation between the creator and the public.
It an event rather than an artifact.
Performance Art
has its roots in the early 20th-century avant-garde movements, particularly Dadaism and Futurism. was characterized
by improvisation, spontaneity, audience interaction, and political agitation. It also became a favourite of feminist artists—such as
the gorilla-masked Guerrilla Girls
Performance Art
a German artist, sculptor, and performance artist who was active from the 1950s until his death in 1986. One of the most influential
artists of the 20th century. Performance Art
JOSEPH BEUYS
an early theorist and practitioner in avant-garde theatre who taught at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1929. Performance Art
OSKAR SCHLEMMER
Japanese artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. an influential practitioner of conceptual and performance art in the 1960s
Yoko Ono
Joseph Beuys: I Like America and America Likes Me
Performance Art
Chris Burden’s “Shoot” (1971)
Performance Art
refers to substantial buildings that are built for a particular purpose or time period. Artworks are meant to evoke a mood or a feeling, and as such ask for a commitment from the viewer
Installation Art
This rose to popularity in the 1970s, its origins may be traced back to previous artists such as Marcel Duchamp and his use of the readymade, as well as Kurt Schwitters’ Merz art items, rather than more typical craft-based sculpture.
Installation Art
A contemporary Japanese artist who focuses on sculpture and installation but also engages in other mediums like painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, and fiction.
Yayoi Kusama
is a pioneer of installation art in the Philippines. Born in Agusan del Norte in 1942, he received his fine arts education from the University of the Koop Philipppines Diliman and was mentored by Napoleon Abueva, the “father” of modern Philippine sculpture.
Luis E. Yee, Jr., better known as Junyee
