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Barron's: Chapter 29 - Contemporary Art Flashcards

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Time Period

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  • 1980-Present
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Essential Knowledge

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  • Traditional skills have been challenged by digital works, works that were meant to last only a short time, works captured on video, computer generated works, etc.
  • Diverse art forms are created that reflect and challenge the environment in which they were made
  • Artists appropriate works from the past which reveal layers of meaning beyond what was perhaps intended
  • Cities seek to be defined by an iconic landmark
  • Art history has traditionally ignored contemporary art form non-American and European sources. Excellent contemporary art is being produced globally
  • Eurocentric views have been downplayed by the rise of the Internet and political power shifts around the globe
  • Artists now come from a multitude of backgrounds, not just the traditional what heterosexual male
  • There are many more venues for displaying art in the world today than ever. Galleries, exhibits, and annual exhibitions proliferate
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Guggenheim Bilboa Museo

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  • Frank Gehry
  • 1997
  • titanium, glass, and limestone
  • Bilboa, Spain
  • modern architecture
  • Cross-Cultural Connections: Curvilinear Forms
    • Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
    • Walls of Saqsa Waman
    • Great Zimbabwe
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MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts

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  • Zaha Hadid
  • 2009
  • glass, steel, and cement
  • Rome, Italy
  • Modern Architecture
    • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Public Spaces
    • Forum of Trajan
    • Angkor Wat
    • Forbidden City
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The Gates

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  • Christo and Jean-Claude
  • 1979-2005
  • mixed media installation
  • New York City
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Gateways
    • Great Portal, Chartres
    • Todai-ji
    • Forbidden City
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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  • Maya Lin
  • 1982
  • black granite
  • Washington, D.C.
  • modern paintings and sculptures
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Horn Players

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  • Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • 183
  • acrylic and oil paint stick on canvas panels
  • Broad Art Foundation
  • Santa Monica, California
  • modern paintings and sculptures
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Summer Trees

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  • Song Su-nam
  • 1983
  • ink on paper
  • British Museum, London
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Ink Technique
    • Folio from the Qu’ran
    • Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
    • Bahrum Gur Fights the Karg
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Androgyn III

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  • Magdalena Abakanowicz
  • 1985
  • burlap, resin, wood, nails, and string
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Human Figure
    • Tlatilco Female Figure
    • Lakshmana Temple detail
    • Nlo Bieri
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A Book from the Sky

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  • Xu Bing
  • 1987-1991
  • 100 boxed sets of 4-volume woodblock printed books, variable numbers of scrolls hanging from the ceiling, and variable numbers of wall panels
  • installation
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Madison, Wisconsin
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Book Making
    • Book of the Lindisfarne
    • Golden Haggadah
    • Fortispiece of the Codex Mendoza
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Pink Panther

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  • Jeff Koons
  • 1988
  • glazed Porcelain
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Porcelain and Ceramic
    • The David Vases
    • Apollo from Veii
    • Terra-cotta Fragment
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Untitled #228 from the History Portraits Series

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  • Cindy Sherman
  • 1990
  • photograph
  • Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, California
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: References to the Past
    • Jefferson, Monticello
    • Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre
    • Shinobare, The Swing
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Dancing at the Louvre from the series The French Collection, Part I, #1

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  • Faith Ringgold
  • 1991
  • acrylic on canvas, with fabric borders
  • Private Collection
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Woven Arts
    • Bandolier Bag
    • Hiapo
    • The Bayeux Tapestry
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Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People)

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  • Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith
  • 1992
  • oil and mixed media
  • Chrysler Museum of Art
  • Norfolk
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Multi-Media Works and Installations
    • Paik, Electronic Superhighway
    • Osario, No Crying Allowed in the Babershop
    • Shonibare, The Swing (after Fragonard)
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Earth’s Creation

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  • Emily Kame Kngwarreye
  • 1994
  • synthetic polymer, paint on canvas
  • Mbantua Gallery, Alice Springs, Australia
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Landscape
    • Fan Kuan, Travelers among Mountains and Streams
    • Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire
    • Cole, Oxbow
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Rebellious Silence, from the Women of Allah series

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  • Shirin Neshat
  • 1994
  • ink on photograph
  • Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Portraits
    • Sin Sukju
    • Roman Patrician
    • Vigee le Brun, Self-Portrait
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En la Barberia no se Llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)

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  • Pepon Osorio
  • 1994
  • mixed media installation
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Gender Identification
    • Veranda post
    • Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
    • Hogarth, The Tete a Tete
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Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)

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  • Michel Tuffery
  • 1994
  • mixed media
  • Collection of the Artists
  • modern paintings and sculptures
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Electronic Superhighway

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  • Naum June Paik
  • 1995
  • mixed media (49-channel closed circuit video installation, neon, steel, and electronic components)
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: New Media for Its Time
    • Daguerre, Still Life in Studio
    • The Colosseum
    • Cranach, Allegory of Law and Grace
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The Crossing

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  • Bill Viola
  • 1996
  • video and sound installation
  • room dimensions: 16 x 27.5 x 57
  • performer: Phil Esposito, photo: Kira Perov
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Motion
    • Muyridge, The Horse in Motion
    • Nike of Samothrace
    • Presentation of Fijian Masks
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Pure Land

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  • Mariko Mori
  • 1998
  • color photograph on glass
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Photography
    • Daguerre, Still Life in Studio
    • Muybridge, The Horse in Motion
    • Stieglitz, The Steerage
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Lying with the Wolf

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  • Kiki Smith
  • 2001
  • ink and pencil on paper
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Stereotypes
    • Osario, No Crying Allowed in the Babershop
    • Salcedo, Shibboleth
    • Lawrence, The Migration of the Negro, Panel no. 49
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Darkytown Rebellion

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  • Kara Walker
  • 2001
  • cut paper and projection on wall
  • Collection Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Wall Surfaces
    • Lascaux Caves, Great Hall of the Bulls
    • Tomb of the Triclinium
    • Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel Ceiling
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The Swing (after Fragonard)

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  • Yinka Shonibare
  • 2001
  • mixed media installation
  • Tate, London
  • modern paintings and sculptures
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Old Man’s Cloth

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  • El Anatsui
  • 2003
  • aluminium liquor bottle caps and copper wire
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Cloth
    • All-T’oqapu Tunic
    • Hiapo
    • Funeral Banner of Lady Dai
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Stadia II

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  • Julie Mehretu
  • 2004
  • ink and acrylic on canvas
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Images of Entertainment
    • The Colosseum
    • Seated Boxer
    • Basquiat, Horn Players
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Preying Mantra

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  • Wangechi Mutu
  • 2006
  • mixed media on mylar
  • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
  • modern paintings and sculptures
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Shibboleth

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  • Doris Salcedo
  • 2007-2008
  • installation
  • Tate Modern, London
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Works on the Ground
    • Smithson, Spiral Jetty
    • Great Serpent Mound
    • Weiwei, Sunflower Seeds
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Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds)

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  • Ai Weiwei
  • 2010-2011
  • sculpted and painted porcelain
  • Tate Modern, London
  • modern paintings and sculptures
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Installations
    • Osario, No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop
    • Bing, A Book from the Sky
    • Shonibare, The Swing (after Fragonard)
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action painting

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  • an abstract painting in which the artists drips or splatters paint onto a surface like a canvas in order to create his or her work
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assemblage

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  • a three-dimensional work make of various materials such as wood, cloth, paper, and miscellaneous objects
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earthwork

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  • a large outdoor work in which the earth itself is the medium
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installation

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  • a temporary work of art made up of assemblages created for a particular space, like an art gallery or a museum
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kitsch

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  • something of low quality that appeals to popular taste

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