Contemporary Art Flashcards

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Reflects the complex issues that shape our diverse, global, and rapidly changing world. Explore cultural or personal identity, critic social and institutional structures, or sometimes redefine art itself.

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Contemporary art

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TRUE OR FALSE

Art has not been and continues to be created during our lifetime due to certain reasons.

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False

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TRUE OR FALSE

It achieved a big success when it became part of popular culture in the 1970s.

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True

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What are the art movements during contemporary art?

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Pop art, happening, performance art, art mob/flash mob, graffiti art and installation

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Developed in the mid-1950s in the United Kingdom and 1950s in the United States

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Pop art

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What is the characteristics of Pop art?

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Used bright and bold colors like, yellow, red, and blue, silkscreen painting, use of acrylic colors, brand names, logos, and product names were used and recurring themes were food, household items, and other ordinary objects.

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Was born on August 6, 1928 in Pennsylvania, USA. He drew widely from pop culture and everyday subject matter.

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Andy Warhol

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Who drew the portraits of Manilyn Monroe?

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Andy Warhol

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Was born on October 27, 1923 in New York City. He became a LEADING FIGURE in the pop art movement.

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Roy Lichtenstein

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Artwork of Roy Lichtenstein.

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Girl Drowning

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What are the examples of Pop art in the philippines?

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Collage “Meat Shop”, Djinn Tallada’s poster and Limbo’s Illustration

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An event that combined elements of painting, poetry, music, dance, and theatre and staged them as a live action.

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Happening

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Who coined the term of Happening?

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Allan Kaprow

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What are the combined elements in Happening?

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Painting, poetry, music, dance, and theatre

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IDENTIFY

Happening staged them as a __________.

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Live action

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What are the distinct characteristics of Happening?

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An avant-garde art form, never shared a common cause or style, spontaneous but sometimes audience are caught off-guard, reactions drawn from the audience is made part of the art and that requires interaction and participation from the audience.

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He rejected traditional arts and dwelt to the philosophical and theoretical questions surrounding the making of art.

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Allan Kaprow

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Created eclectic practice, which includes and combines live events, text, sculpture, installation, and painting.

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Agathe Snow

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Requires other media to come up with their artwork which includes movements, dialogues, music, dance, costume, etc.

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Performance art

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What are the characteristics of a Performance art?

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Can incorporate any discipline or medium (film, mime, fashion, theatrical design, subject matter are commonly life experiences of the artists, or social criticism and with a spirit of transformation, requires four elements: time, body, space, and presence of the artist and aims at generating a reaction, sometimes with the support of improvisation and a sense of aesthetics.

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What are the 4 elements needed in Performance art?

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time, body, space and presence of the artist

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Was an American poet, performance artist, and architect—a FOUNDER of the Performance Art movement.

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Vito Acconci

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She made use of sound, sculpture, photography, video in her performance. Often braves dangerous or grueling acts to investigate sensation and its effects, often with audience participation.

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Marina Abramovic

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Her worked focused on addressing the issues of colonization, women, identity, migration, capitalism, and globalization in the post-modern, post-colonial Philippines. An artist who uses inter-disciplinary approach in her performance.

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Racquel de Loyola

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IDENTIFY
Racquel de Loyola focused on addressing the issues of ________, ________, __________, __________, __________, and ______________ in the post-modern, post-colonial Philippines

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Colonization, women, identity, migration, capitalism, and globalization

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Subsisting Sustenance (Mebuyan Series) was made by?

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Racquel de Loyola

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A movement characterized by group of people who assemble, perform in a crowd for a short period of time, and disperse afterwards.

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Flash mob or Art mob

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What are the main goal of a flash mob?

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To entertain, express creativity, make political statements, and criticize social injustices.

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What are the distinct characteristics of an art mob?

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Unrehearsed, spontaneous, and dispersed action, speedy and sudden assembly and randomness of the action.

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What makes art mob unique from other performance art.?

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its randomness

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What are the 2 important elements in creating surprising effect in art mob?

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speedy and sudden assembly

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What are the examples of an art mob?

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Anti-bullying Flash Mob, Cebu Dancing Inmates and Feminist Flash Mob for Women’s Right

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It is known as street art. It is a form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group.

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Graffiti art

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IDENTIFY
This type of art form is more ___________ compared to others since other people consider it as __________ rather than art.

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controversial, vandalism

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Artist who portrayed his arts through graffiti art.

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Keith Haring

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Involves the setting up of objects or mixed media construction in a given space such as gallery, warehouse, and public space for a temporary period of time.

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Installation

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What are the distinct characteristics of an Installation art?

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Flexible and three-dimensional in nature, influenced by development in computer art, artists are experimental compared to their traditional artists counterparts and form of conceptual art.

38
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WHAT IS THIS?

Ideas and impact are considered more valuable than the quality of a finished product.

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Conceptual art

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Who created Bang, Installation?

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Ai Weiwei