Form Follows Fiction Flashcards
Monet Article
Who was Claude Monet?
Who he was, history
- Founder of French Impressionist painting
- The term even came out of one of his paintings
- His father wanted him in the grocery business, but he entered Le Havre art school, and then met Eugene Bouldin, who taught him en plein air painting
- Went to Paris and painted what he saw outside the window
- At 21 he joined the First Regiment of African Light Calvary in Algeria, but he got typhoid fever and returned to Paris to study art along with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille and Alfred Sisley
- At the start of the Franco-Prussian War, Monet fled to England and traveled to the Netherlands before returning home
- He lost his wife after the birth of their second child, and vowed to never live in poverty, creating great paintings and making enough to move into a large house with a garden
- Monet was very inspired by his gardens, and had a large amount of botanical books. His only surviving child after his death was Michel, heir to the property which is now open to the public, including the vast gardens
Fruit Portrait Article
What is the fruit portrait?
Name, artist and depiction
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo
- A reversible anthropomorphic portrait of a man composed of fruit
- Shows a basket of fruit that when flipped shows a man’s face
Rotating House Article
What is the rotating house art?
Name, artist and depiction
- Aerial Rotating House
- From Le Vingtième Siècle
- Written and illustrated by Albert Robida
- Shows a fantasy house high in the sky on a turntable type device
Pompeii Art…icle
What is the Pompeii painting?
Name, artist and depiction
- Late Visitors to Pompeii
- Carel Willink
- Shows a few people visiting Pompeii after it was destroyed with the volcano in the distance
Iguana Article
What is the iguana photograph?
Name, artist and depiction
- Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas)
- Juchitán, Oaxaca
- Graciela Iturbide
- Part of photoessay Juchitan of the Women, about the grace and power of Zapotec women
- This shows a woman standing with live iguanas on her head forming a very strange crown
Saint Article
What is the saint painting?
Name, artist and depiction
- The Strolling Saint
- Pedro Meyer
- Shows a figure (Jesus?) walking down a regular street with blue all around, surrounded by a few ordinary people
Dollar Article
What is the dollar painting?
Name, artist and depiction
- The Romantic Dollarscape
- Pedro Alvarez
- Shows a scene like in Egypt with the pyramid, but is tinted green and the sphynx is actually Washington, so looks like a dollar bill
- Shows tourists and guides admiring the scene
Weirdo Article
What is the weirdo collection of paintings?
Name, artist and depiction
- Avery Gibbes
- Weirdos in Another Universe
- A series of paintings about an alternate universe where a few humans managed to enter an alien world
- About the feeling of being an alien in another world, gradually exploring and getting used to it
Soup Article
What is the soup can art?
Name, artist and depiction
- Andy Warhol
- 32 nearly identical drawings of Cambell’s Soup Cans
- Only difference is the flavour written on it
- He said he drew it because it’s what he ate for such a long time every day for lunch
Aunt Jemima Article
What is the firs Aunt Jemima art piece?
Name, artist and depiction
- The Liberation of Aunt Jemima
- Betye Saar
- Took a bunch of racist memorabilia and put it together in a small box to make an empowering statement
- A pencil for the mammy doll was replaced with a gun, while the notepad was replaced with a postcard reflecting the sexual abuse of enslaved women
- At the back of the box are old Aunt Jemima labels
Cocktail Article
What is the Aunt Jemima cocktail art?
Name, artist and depiction
- The Liberation of Aunt Jemima: Cocktail
- Betye Saar
- Takes a vintage Gallo wine jug with symbols of protest, such as a black fist at the back of the jug, and an Aunt Jemima label at the front
Kawsbob Article
What is Kawsbob?
Artist and depiction
- Kaws
- Shows a Spongebob face in 3 different colors reflecting emotions
- Yellow is happy, black is… dead? and red is sort of crazy
- Close up just of the face
Charlie Brown Article
What is the Charlie Brown art?
Name, artist and depiction
- Charlie Brown firestarter
- Drawn on a wall on the street of Charlie Brown with a ciggarette pouring gasoline
- Made in run up to the Oscars
- Done on the side of a burnt building outside of LA
- Just a couple days later it was cut out
Miracle Whip Article
What is the grocery store art?
Name, artist and depiction
- Life, Miracle Whip and Premium
- Brendan O’Connell
- Paints things from supermarkets, now focusing on one brand at a time
Gadget Article
What are ten useless gadgets?
What they do
- A frying pan that detects whats in it
- A toothbrush that guides you
- A fork that tracks how fast you’re eating
- A wearable that tells you when you’re stressed
- A plastic egg carton that tells you when you need more eggs
- A water bottle that tracks how much you’re drinking
- A yoga mat that tells you when you’re doing something wrong
- A tampon that tells you when it’s full
- An LED jumprope with exercise information
- A wine bottle in which you load cartridges that supposedly keep wine fresh
