Art Since 1945 Flashcards
Artist: Pollock
Title: Number 1 1950 (Lavendar Mist)
Date: 1950
Style/country: Abstract Expressionism, USA
Significance: gigantic rolled out piece of canvas he stood on and splattered paint. not a flat painting (often blood, glass, etc got stuck in it), no narrative, foreground, background, etc. all over composition.
Artist: Mark Rothko
Title: Ochre and Red on Red
Date: 1954
Location: Phillips Collection, DC
Style/country: Abstract Expressionism, USA
Significance: Used colors to express and idea. Colors used to evoke different feelings and moods.
Artist: David Smith
Title: Cubi XVIII
Date: 1964
Style/country: Modernism, USA
Significance: Wanted to seperate art object from other things we value (beauty, expense). Used cheap scrap metal or steel. We are meant to question how he balanced it.
Artist: Rauschenberg
Title: Bed
Date: 1955
Style/country: Pop Art USA
Significance: Used Combining (paint and other objects) to merge elements of art with his own life (sheets pillows, etc).
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Gold Marilyn Monroe
Date: 1962
Style/country: Pop Art, USA
Significance: Gold background raises her up to that of a religious figure similar to art in the past, mimics mass production, not perfect (smudged, blurry, suggesting mass production isnt perfect), ironic b/c it was after her death but the colors make you feel happy and cheerful
Artist: Yves Klein
Title: Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility
Date: 1962
Style/country: Conceptual Art, France
Significance: belief that art is an idea and doesn’t have to be tangible. writes a receipt for a picture plane and burns it completely getting rid of the art.
Artist: Robert Smithson
Title: Spiral Jetty
Date: 1970
Location: Great Salt Lake, Utah
Style/country: Environmental Art, USA
Significance: focus was to get art out of the galleries, red of the water and the white rocks were visually pleasing. idea was to see how nature would alter it over time.
Artist: Judy Chicago
Title: The Dinner Party
Date: 1979
Style/country: Feminism, USA
Significance: Multimedia, the triangle represents equality, 13 place settings on each side (mocking the belief there are 13 women in a witches coven), celebrating the artisans by hiring them to create place settings for influential women throughout history
Artist: Jeff Koons
Title: Michael Jackson and Bubbles
Date: 1988
Style/country: Contemporary Art, USA
Significance: Comparison to pieta, example of Banal, comments on the need to consume and buy pointless knick-knacks. Gilted gold just like religious icons and the belief that we turn celebrities into these icons.
