Contemporary Arts Flashcards

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  • relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past.
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Modern

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  • expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically
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Art

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comprises creative work created during the era roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and specifies the forms and concepts of art established during that time period.

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Modern art

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More recent creative work is referred to it as ________________ or postmodern art.

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contemporary art

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Wheatfields With Crows, 1890 by

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Vincent Van Gogh

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Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–86 by

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Georges Seurat

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Galatea de las esferas, 1952 by

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Salvador Dali

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o living or occurring at the same time.
o belonging to or occurring in the present

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Contemporary

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expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form.

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Art

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Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962 by

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Andy Warhol

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Garapata by

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Dex Fernandez

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  • emphasizes innovation and freedom more than Modern Art.
  • focuses on societal influence, with society as the major emphasis
  • may be found in a wider range of materials, including object design, tech-enabled artwork, and graphical arts.
  • flourished with Modernism at first, but it is today seen as distinct from that school.
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Contemporary

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Artistic style which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotion and responses that objects and events arouse within a person.

  • Convergence, 1950 by Jackson Pollock
  • Multiform, 1948 by Mark Rothko
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Abstract Expressionism

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  • is an expression of personality.
  • that most ____________ was made on canvas
  • defined by academics as a distinct style that corresponds to a certain time period.
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Modern Art

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a distinct style or movement refers to a number of German artist, as well as Austrian, French, and Russian ones, who became active in the years before World War I and remained so throughout much of the interwar period.

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Expressionism

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Abstract Expressionism (two major styles)

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Action Painting
Color Fields

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  • Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that involves the spontaneous
    application of vigorous, sweeping brush strokes and the chance effects of
    dripping and spilling paint onto the canvas.
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Action Painting

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Direct, instinctual, and highly dynamic kind of art that The term typically describes large-scale canvases dominated by flat expanses of color and having a minimum of surface detail. ___________ paintings have a unified single-image
field and differ qualitatively from the gestural, expressive brushwork.

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Color Fields

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Convergence, 1950 by

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Jackson Pollock

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Multiform, 1948 by

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Mark Rothko

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  • branch of mid-20th-century geometric abstract art that deals with optical illusion.
  • Achieved through the systematic and precise manipulation of shapes and colors.
  • Zebra by Victor Vasarely
  • Achaean by Bridget Riley
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Optical Art

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Zebra by

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Victor Vasarely

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Achaean by

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Bridget Riley

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Art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or that depends on motion for its effect. “_________” as a moniker developed from a number of sources

  • Abstraction by Alexander Calder
  • Meta-Harmonie II by Jean Tinguely
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Kinetic Art

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, sculpture in which movement (as of a motor-driven part or a changing electronic image) is a basic element. In the 20th century the use of actual movement, kineticism, became an important aspect of sculpture.
* KINETIC SCULPTURE
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Abstraction by
Alexander Calder
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Meta-Harmonie II by
Jean Tinguely
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* also called ABC art, is the culmination of reductionist tendencies in modern art. * Untitled(stack), by Donald Judd * Harran II by Frank Stella
Minimalism
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, is composed of extremely simple, monumental geometric forms made of fiberglass, plastic, sheet metal, or aluminum, either left raw or solidly painted with bright industrial colors. Like the painters, Minimalist sculptors attempted to make their works totally objective, unexpressive, and non-referential
Minimal sculpture
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Untitled(stack), by
Donald Judd
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Harran II by
Frank Stella
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- Art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain. It is an art that is based on popular culture and mass media. Characterized by bold, simple, everyday imagery, and vibrant block colors. - movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars. * Great American Nude #21, 1961 by Tom Wesselmann * House of fire, 1981 by James Rosenquist * Popeye, 1961 by Roy Lichtenstein
Pop Art
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Great American Nude #21, 1961 by
Tom Wesselmann
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House of fire, 1981 by
James Rosenquist
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Popeye, 1961 by
Roy Lichtenstein
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refers to a reaction against modernism. It is less a cohesive movement than an approach and attitude toward art, culture, and society. * 10 Marilyn Monroe, 1967 by Andy Warhol * ONE AND THREE CHAIRS, 1965 by Joseph Kosuth
Post Modernism
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- can be also characterized by a deliberate use of earlier styles and conventions, and an eclectic mixing of different artistic and popular styles and mediums. - A late 21st and 20th century art style.
Postmodern art
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10 Marilyn Monroe, 1967 by
Andy Warhol
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ONE AND THREE CHAIRS, 1965 by
Joseph Kosuth
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is a movement that prizes ideas over the formal or visual components of art works.
Conceptual art
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took myriad forms, such as performances, happenings, and ephemera. From the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s Conceptual artists produced works and writings that completely rejected standard ideas of art. * Mother and Child Divided, 1993 by Damien Hirst * The trees will riot, 2020 by Robert Montgomery
Conceptualism
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Mother and Child Divided, 1993 by
Damien Hirst
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The trees will riot, 2020 by
Robert Montgomery
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, is a broad term that refers to a style that has been influenced by Pop Art. The first wave of ____________ Art emerged in the 1980’s as a reaction to the Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 1970’s.
Neo-Pop, or Post-Pop
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used the iconography of Pop Art to their own ends, creating commentary that mimics Pop Art, but also incorporating contemporary “kitsch” imagery and references to political and social issues that did not exist in the 60’s. * Portrait Twin; Futago, 1988 by Yasumasa Morimura * 727, 1996 by Takashi Murakami * Paris Hilton Autopsy, 2007 by Daniel Edwards
The Neo-Pop artists
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Portrait Twin; Futago, 1988 by
Yasumasa Morimura
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727, 1996 by
Takashi Murakami
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Paris Hilton Autopsy, 2007 by
Daniel Edwards
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Telephone Booth, 1968 by
Richard Estes
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- (also known as Hyperrealism or Superrealism) was coined in reference to those artists whose work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy. * Telephone Booth, 1968 by Richard Estes * Erschossener; man shot down 1, 1988 by Gerhard Richter
Photorealism
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Erschossener; man shot down 1, 1988 by
Gerhard Richter
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Rhythm 0, 1974 by
Marina Abramovic
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* Is art is presented "live," usually by the artist but sometimes with collaborators or performers. * artworks that are created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted. * Rhythm 0, 1974 by Marina Abramovic * Cutpiece, 1964 by Yoko Ono
Performance Art
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Cutpiece, 1964 by
Yoko Ono
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One of the most impactful and enchanting art genres in existence. Compared to conventional art forms such as painting and sculpture, ______________ is intended to fill entire rooms or even entire exhibition space (Lesso, 2020) * Yard, 1967 by Allan Kaprow * Aftermath of obliteration of eternity, 2009 by Yayoi Kusama
Installation Art
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Yard, 1967 by
Allan Kaprow
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* also known as Land art or Earthworks, * primarily an American movement that produces site-specific structures, art forms, and sculptures using the natural landscape. (The Art Story, 2018) * Broken circle; Spiral hill, 1971 by Robert Smithson * California Dreamin, 1972-76 by Christo and JeanneClaude
Earth Art
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Aftermath of obliteration of eternity, 2009 by
Yayoi Kusama
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Broken circle; Spiral hill, 1971 by
Robert Smithson
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- art that is done in public surfaces such as building exteriors, highway overpasses, and sidewalks. - more common in cities - similar to graffiti in that it is done in public spaces and is usually unauthorized, but it encompasses a broader range of media and is more closely associated with graphic design. - Murals ,Installation Art, Sticker, Stencil image * Untitled (skull),1981 by Jean Michel * Basquiat Houston Bowery Wall, 1982 by Keith Haring
Street Art
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California Dreamin, 1972-76 by
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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Untitled (skull),1981 by
Jean Michel
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Basquiat Houston Bowery Wall, 1982 by
Keith Haring
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