Class Keys Flashcards
Key #1
Theme: Explosion
Title: “The Crystal Palace”
Artist: Joseph Paxton
Date: 1851
Location: London, UK
Medium: Architecture
Key #2
Theme: Nude
Title: “Olimpia”
Artist: Edouard Manet
Date: 1863
Medium: Painting
Key #3
Theme: Land
Title: “Grizzly Giant”
Artist: Carleton Watkins
Date: 1861
Location: Yosemite
Medium: Photography
Key #4
Theme: City
Title: “The Garden City Suburb”
Artist: Ebenezer Howard
Date: 1898
Medium: Urban Planning
Key #5
Theme: Time
Title: “Something Good - Negro Kiss”
Artist: William Selig
Date: 1898
Medium: Film
Key #6
Theme: Abstraction
Title: “Pictorial Quilt”
Artist: Harriet Powers
Date: 1895-1898
Location: USA (slavery in Georgia)
Medium: Textile
Key #7
Theme: Progress
Title: “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”
Artist: Umberto Boccioni
Date: 1913
Medium: Sculpture
Key #8
Theme: Anthropophagy
Title: “Abapourú”
Artist: Tarsila do Amaral
Date: 1928
Medium: Painting
Key #9
Theme: Geometry
Title: “Red-Blue Chair”
Artist: Gerrit Rietveld
Date: 1917-18
Medium: Furniture
Key #10
Theme: Machine
Title: “The Bridge Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors”
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Date: 1915-1923
Medium: Sculpture
Key #11
Theme: Control
Title: “Barcelona Pavilion”
Artist: Mies van der Rohe and Lily Reich
Date: 1929
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Medium: Architecture
Key #12
Theme: Montage
Title: “What do you want from me?”
Artist: Claude Cahun
Date: 1928
Medium: Photography
Key #13
Theme: Fetish
Title: “Object - Breakfast in Fur”
Artist: Méret Oppenheim
Date: 1936
Medium: Sculpture
Key #14
Theme: History
Title: “Henry Ford Hospital”
Artist: Frida Kahlo
Date: 1932
Medium: Painting
Key #15
Theme: Revolution
Title: “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman”
Artist: Vera Mukhina
Date: 1937
Medium: Sculpture
Key #16
Theme: Realism
Title: “Mob Victim”
Artist: Lois Mailou Jones
Date: 1944
Medium: Painting
Key #17
Theme: Gesture
Title: “Up to and Including Her Limits”
Artist: Carolee Schneeman
Date: 1973
Medium: Drawing
Key #18
Theme: Techno-Sublime
Title: “Every Atom Glows: Electrons in Luminous Vibration”
Artist: Norman Lewis
Date: 1951
Medium: Painting (oil on canvus)
Key #19
Theme: Commodity
Title: “Tunafish Disaster”
Artist: Andy Warhol
Date: 1963
Medium: Printing
Key #20
Theme: Failure
Title: “Pruitt-Igoe”
Artist: Minoru Yamasaki
Date: 1954-1971
Location: St. Louis, MO
Medium: Photography
Key #21
Theme: Concept
Title: “Shoot-it-yourself-picture” from Edition MAT
Artist: Niki de Saint Phalle
Date: 1964
Medium: Plaster on wood + paint bomb
Info: 1/100 signed and numbered copies.
- the artist doesn’t do it, u do it yourself…
- Embedded paintballs in plaster and then had people shoot them until u like the end results.
*Comments on taking ownership of ‘art’ by just putting ur name on something
Key #22
Theme: Post-Colonia
Title: “Wearing kente cloth and lace”
Artist: Felicia Abban
Date: 1960
Medium: Photography
Key #23
Theme: Scale
Title: “Sun Tunnels”
Artist: Nancy Holt
Date: 1973-76
Location: Utah, USA
Medium: Earthwork
Key #24
Theme: Feminine
Title: “Learn where the meat comes from”
Artist: Suzanne Lacy
Date: 1976
Medium: Video/Performance
Key #25
Theme: Memory
Title: Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA)
Artist: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Date: 1991
Location: LA, California
Medium: Installation
Key #26
Theme: Post-Human
Title: “Ear on Arm”
Artist: Stelarc
Date: 2003-ongoing
Medium: Bio-Art
Key #25
Theme: Global
Title: “Moments of Glory”
Artist: Leila Pazooki
Date: 2010
Medium: Installation
