Final Flashcards
Once known as the Algonquin school, they were a group of Canadian painters in the 1920’s and 1930’s who developed bold techniques in their landscape works. Their works inspired by Canadian landscapes
group of seven
A period of aesthetic innovation driven by the desire to break away from the romantic nationalism that characterized the confederation period
Canadian modernism
A late 20th century style and concept in the arts architecture and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any nation of “art”
Post modernism
A Quebec artist whom works as a painter, dancer, choreographer, and sculptor. She was a contributor to the “refus global”, as artists manifesto that was instrumental in the quiet revolution. She created “danse dans la neige” as a response to a particular site in sainthilair Quebec
francoise Sullivan
Created by Rebecca believe, an anishinaabe artist. Considered to be participatory and activist as a response to the Ola crisis in the region it was originally installed in
Speaking to their mother
Members of the Mohawk nation and their supporters launched a protest against plans to build a golf course on Mohawk ceremonial an a burial ground in Quebec. Was met with armed forces creating the weeks long protest
Oka crisis (1990)
An anishinaabe artist who is associated with her works surrounding indigenous activism and feminist activism within her artistic practice
Rebecca belmore
Artwork that is made from pure shapes or forms that do not purposefully refer to the real world. No definitely recognizable subject matter
Non-representational
- The nation of a national school
- The academic tradition
- The representational
3 forms of Canadian avant garde
Group of 7 painter, painted North shore, Lake Superior - also known for surrealist paintings and ideals
Lawren Harris
The avoidance of conscious intention in producing works of art, especially by using mechanical techniques or subconscious associations
Automatism
A simplified representation of something more complex. Allows you to hide details to help you manage complexity, focus on relevant concepts, and reason about problems at a higher level
Abstraction
The use of pre-existing objects or images with little to no transformation applied to them
Appropriation
An early 20th century artistic movement which was attracted to the directness, instinctiveness and exoticism non urban cultures
Primitivism (modernism)
Les refuse global originated from a group called les automatistes, the group created abstract art by French surrealists. Their manifesto was launched at a Montreal bookstore well known for selling banned books. They called for anarchy, they were the base for Quebec’s quiet revolution.
Refuse global
A period of intense social, political, and economic change is Quebec During this period, which lasted from about 1960 - 1966, quebecois began to assert their rights and affirm and promote their language and culture
The quiet revolution
something that serves as a reminder of something else - especially a building or statue
monument
a monument erected to the memory of the dead, with the dead human body not present
cenotaph
the physical character of place; what is found at the location and why it is significant
site
“to throw far or extend”, acclaimed by koto as a means of art. was popularized by artists as affordable way of displaying video on a 3D surface
projection
the description of the customs of different individuals, peoples, and cultures.
enthography
display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen
monitor
a video work with two separate video feeds or displays
two channel video
the style of simultaneously combing a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other
polyphony
a form of film that tries to show the function of film itself
structural film
reprocessed contained state in a gallery, for example rocks in a bin in a museum
non-site
all of the activities that prepare the site for construction of the art piece or installation
site construction
the mathematical rile that surrounds the construction of site specific pieces
axiomatic structure
also called an expanded field, Krause defines marked sites as a combination of landscape and non-landscape
marked site
a measure of disorder or randomness within a piece.
entropy
carl beams, and indigenous artist, created a media based piece in which he buries a wooden ruler in soft dirt. as a pun and narrative to colonialism and asks the question of “whose land is this?”
burying the ruler (1989)
the belief that artists should utilize all facets of themselves. making an impression on the world using yourself
expressionism art
emerges after the fall of the German monarchy and the signing of the treaty of versailles. this was the emergence of the cabaret scene during this time.
Weimar Republic
describes the way in which women become objects of sexual objectification in films and other media. to look at and judge someones appearance is active and therefore masculine, but not to be the object of the gaze and judgement is passive, and therefore feminine
male gaze
dramatic presentation by visual artists in front of an audience usually apart from a formal theatrical setting
performance art
the belief that women should have economic, political and social equality with men
feminism
