Final Flashcards
four F’s
- Form: Art made to be looked at
- Function: Art created to be used and lived with
- Flow: Art that seeks to foster understanding between people, cultures
- Futures: Art that aims to make change or to imagine a different future
Fountain of Youth
- Juan Ponce de Leon
- Originally looking for longevity
- Scholars found he was looking for political gain instead
- History can change understanding of something
fountains symbolism
- Sustenance
- Infrastructure
- Power
- Beauty
water
- essential to life
- catches light, changes shape, creates patterns
- not just a substance—it is a realm, a universe, a journey, an adventure
- controlled by engineering is a symbol of power
Fountain of the Four Rivers
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Nile river
- Ganges river
- Danube river
- River de la plata
Kara Walker
- Fons Americanus
- fountain based on Victoria Memorial and it’s turned upside down
- depicts abuses
- inspired by victoria memorial (across from buckingham)
Pre-curation / Post-curation
pre: 15k portraits; post: edmond bellamy
Margie Soudek
salt shakers
Meredith Moore
made the short film
Man with a Hoe
- Jean-François Millet
- forged study w Paul Cazot
Peter Guppy
- collector
- checking a Kazimir Malevich painting
elements of authenticity
- Signature/stamp
- Composition
- Medium
- Style
- Drawings/documentation
- Provenance
provenance
- record of ownership of a work of art or an antique
- guide for authenticity
connoisseurship
Love or taste for fine objects of art
Valentine house
shonibare put figures wearing dutch wax prints into it
subversion
undermining of power and authority of established system
Adweneasa
- most complicated of kente cloths
- peak of skill
tradition
- “there is no creation w/o tradition”
- Continuity + Change
- Repetition + Variation
Rover Thomas
- Natural earth pigments on canvas
- created paintings on boards in response to natural disaster in Australia
Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency
shack, structure made by aboriginal ppl w/o moving into temporary shelter
Ngurrara
- “country”
- painted by senior traditional owners of the Great Sandy Desert of northern Western Australia
Mona J. Chuguna and Pijaju Peter Skipper
For skipper, painting makes wangarr of what is gone and restores mangi
wangarr
ghost image of someone
mangi
spirit and physical trace of a person
Dreamings
several aboriginal pieces
Gunybi Ganambarr
- Aboriginal descent artist
- Using non-traditional mediums
- Yolgnu culture
Mahmoud Darwish
painted for the refugee crises of the ppl who were drowning
Bahia Shebab
- multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on interaction and intersection of modern identity and ancient cultural heritage
- believes art should be employed for social change
Ledger drawing
- narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth
- predominantly practiced by Plains Indian
Chris Pappan
- Ledger artist
- believes that native ppl can hold themselves to a higher standard and fight for existence in these lands
Agency
having autonomy over art
returning the gaze
looking at smth from a certain perspective
Caryatid
human figure holding something up
Warp and weft
go different ways
Asafo flags
- Applique cotton flags from ghana
- ex. Despite the size of the elephant, it is the antelope that receives the stool
Camara laye
- guinean write wrote story about boy’s initiation
- memoir
- boy needed to get initiated and he was scared bc he didn’t know if the diara was a beast or a man
- happened under bombax tree
Kondén diara
lion that eats little boys
Vignette
design page within a book
Grafting
like collaging but in the biological world
3 windows
- Black Boy’s Window (David Hammons, 1968)
- Black Girls’ Window (Betye Saar, 1969)
- The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison, 1970)
Betye Saar quotes
- What’s the difference
- Feelings are the goal
- Death is at the center of everything
- Seduce the viewer
Betye Saar
- uses assemblage in autobiographical way
- creativity tied to being a mother
- flea markets for materials
- works with time (clocks)
Seductive transformation
turning a found object or image into art assemblage
Bese saka
power and unity daisy adinkra symbol
Feelings quotes
- Saar: Feelings are the goal
- Harrison: I want you to feel something
Counter-monument against fascism
Esther Shalev-Gerz and Jochen Gerz
Sukkot rules
- Frame: 2.5+ walls, stable but not permanent
- Roof: organic, semi-permeable material, see the stars, feel the rain
creative expression of sukkot in lives of these ppl
- Construction - aligns builders w tradition
- Decoration - express personal connection to one’s history and values
- Interpretation of space - prayer gives structure and hope
Vernacular
What is indigenous, common and shared in a community or region
Schatzkammer
Vault in tradition of royal treasure room
Wunderkammer
cabinet of curiosities, cabinet of wonder, related to schatzkammer
Restitution
returning to its owner
Elsewhere museum
Sylvia gray and george scheer bought building and had army surplus business
Museum anthropology
looks at how material culture is displayed and portrayed in museums and the purpose and police of museums
Jacob Riis
photographed how the other half lives
Ruth abram
social activist who opened Historic House Museum alongside Anita Jacobson, preserved the historical physical fabric because they saw it as an “urban time capsule”
Josephine Baldizzi
daughter of rosaria baldizzi who kept the room v tidy in tenement apartments
New museology approach
new way to approach museums: having an experience
Stabilized ruin
tenement museum bc as its used, its being run down, but ppl try to conserve it
