Chapter 10 Flashcards
Spanish painter and the most famous of the Surrealist movement
“The Persistence of Memory” (1931) is his most famous work
Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Followed the Dada movement
Influenced by Sigmund Freud and his theories of the subconscious
Inspired by dreams, fantasy and the subconscious
Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Andre Breton and Joan Miro
SURREALISM (1920s)
Huge abstract paintings on mural sized canvases featuring solid colors
Was inspired by the work of Jackson Pollock (action painting) and Helen Frankenthaler (soak stain painting)
Mark Rothko was best known for this type of painting
Color Field Paintings (1940s-1950s)
Dutch American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor
Best known for his woman paintings
“Woman on a Bicycle” (1952)
Wilem de Kooning (1904-1997)
American painter whose work was a forerunner of the Pop Art movement
Invented a form called “combines” which was a combo of paint and sculpture
Best work was “Monogram” (1955)
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
Made a comeback in the 20th century with surrealists
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” (1504) became more popular
Hieronymus Bosch
Created by Frank Lloyd Wright
Provided ample room for a small family, with rooms of varying scale
Provided the inspiration for a later design which would be called the Ranch house
Was designed in response to the vast demand for low income housing
Usonian architecture (1936)
Features bright colors and images from popular culture
Andy warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg
Collage, “Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?” by Richard Hamilton in 1956
Ridiculed American middle class values and consumerism
POP ART (1950s-1960s)
Spanish painter, co founder of the Cubist Movement, major icon of Modern Art
Painted “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1937)
Painted “Guernica” (1937)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Painted by Picasso in response to the bombing of the village of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
“Guernica” (1937)
American Abstract expressionist painter
used action painting (drip painting), where he’d spatter paint onto a canvas
“Autumn Rhythm” (1950)
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Occurred after WWII
Featured a clean simple look
Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and Sol Lewett
“Untitled” (1970)
MINIMALISM (1960s-1970s)
Conceptual artist and sculptor.
Best known for earthwork, “Spiral Jetty” (1970) Built on the NE shore of the great Salt Lake in Utah
Robert Smithson (1938-1973)
Conceptual artist
Used “performance art” to express his art
“How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare” (1965)
Saw himself as a modern shaman, healing a sick society with his performances and ritual objects
Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
Leading figure in Pop Art
Known for “Campbell’s Soup Cans” (1962) and “Marilyn Diptych” (1962)
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
American Pop Artist
comic book panels
“whaam!” (1963)
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
American Pop Artist and sculptor
Best known for oversized replicas such as “Giant Three Way Plug” (1970) and “Soft Toilet” (1966)
Invented Soft Art
Claes Oldenburg (1929 —)
Abstract expressionist painter
used Soak Stain
“Nepenthe” (1972)
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)
Heavily thinning oil painting out with turpentine and applying it to an unprepared canvas
Over time, this technique would cause the canvas to fade and rot
Soak Stain
American Conceptualist artist
Known for his Earthwork the Roden Crater Project
Roden Crater is an extinct volcanic crater near Flagstaff Arizona
James Turrell (1943 —)
American Feminist artist
Founded the first Feminist art program in the US in 1969
Best known “The Dinner Party” (1979)
Judy Chicago (1939 —)
Rejected uniformity and lack of ornamentation prevalent in Modernist architecture
Michael Graves’ “Portland Building” (1982)
Post Modernist architecture (1970s, 1980s)
American Conceptual and Feminist artist
Best known for merging existing photos with confrontational text to grab the viewer’s attention.
“Your body is a battleground” (1989)
Barbara Kruger (1945 —)
