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HY artists Flashcards

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Jackson Pollock key points

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  • became interested in psychoanalysis as a means of exploring self identity
  • abstract expressionism - widened methods of artmaking
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Jackson Pollock CF

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  • close involvement between artist and artwork, whole body used
  • critics played huge role in promoting reputation
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Jackson Pollock Subjective frame

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Emotional intensity and personal language

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Jackson Pollock structural

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  • use and developement of personal symbols

- innovative methods

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Jackson Pollock Artists Practice

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  • semi figurative language
  • action painting
  • intention and meaning with every stroke
  • purposeful gestures
  • abstract expressionism, modernism
  • personal and psychological involvement
  • early work was realist but became influenced by surrealist work
  • different tools
  • challenged the notion of the painting being detached from the spectator
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Jackson Pollock Artwork (Pasiphae)

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Pasiphae 1943

  • bio-morphic forms related to plants, animals and primitive symbols
  • mood is mysterious, angry - sombre black lines and heavy colours
  • body fragments scattered over painting
  • layers applied thickly, colour is smeared not blended
  • frenzy and density
  • subtle focus in centre of artwork
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Jackson Pollock Artwork (Blue Poles)

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  • poles create a secondary rhythm across spidery lines
  • frenzy, however places of rest are created for viewers eye
  • action seems to continue off the picture plane
  • sense of energy
  • grand scale
  • ideals of modernism
  • abstractionism
  • importance of gesture and the influence of psychology
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Gordon Bennett key points

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Discovered aboriginal herritage around age 11
Appropriation
Herritage olays huge role in art

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Gordon Bennett Subjective Frame

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Personal identity and personal visions, frustrations

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Gordon Bennett CF

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  • current world events eg war

- violence, politics, race, social alienation

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Gordon Bennett cultural frame

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Heritage, identity

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Gordon Bennett Artists practice

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  • wide range of media
  • spontaneous
  • doesn’t follow rules of fashionable art making
  • graffiti-like approach
  • appropriation of Van Gogh, Pollock, Basquiat
  • re-contextualises
  • working on floor (links to traditional aboriginal painting and Pollock)
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Gordon Bennett Artwork (Notes To Basquiat)

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Notes to Basquiat (death of irony) 2002

  • reflects our age of globalisation and fear of terrorism
  • read from left to right (islamic text)
  • colonial power
  • aboriginal x-ray imagery
  • first world affluence
  • religion
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Gordon Bennett Artwork (Home Decor)

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Home Decor (Algebra) Ocean 1998

  • series developed over 3 years
  • includes abstracted stereotypical representations of aboriginal figures
  • appropriation of abstract expressionism (Pollock)
  • raises questions about white male hero
  • christian symbols
  • coloured grid is a unifying figure, adds to layers of meaning
  • grey grid adds depth and suggests imprisonment
  • pastiche
  • questions how we perceive the world and race structure
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Gordon Bennett Quotes

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When the responsibility for interpretation is thrown back on the viewer by the artists silence, then that is how art should be

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Jackson Pollock quote

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My opinion is that new needs need new technique

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Paul Cezanne key points

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  • Transformed paint into a visible structure - post impressionism
  • ineterested in forms of nature, violence and depth
  • post imoressionism
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Cezanne subjective frame

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Interpretation of subject matter

Personal ideas

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Cezanne structural frame

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  • innovative spatial construction
  • no traditional distincitions of space
  • structural revolution
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Cezanne Conceptual frame

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  • personal journey between artworks

- introduced world to revolutionary approach to the 2D surface

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Paul Cezanne Artists practice

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  • unifying pictorial plane
  • direct observation of nature (era of tubed paint)
  • parallel, organised, even, brush strokes
  • focus on essential forms of nature (cylinder, sphere and cone)
  • feelings of solid form
  • constructed interlocking patches of colour - warm colours would - - advance in space and cool colours would recede
  • analytical approach
  • conscious of tension between implied pictorial depth and the actual - flat surface of the canvas
  • inspiration not only found from the visible world but the nature of art itself as well
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Cezanne Artwork (the great bathers)

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The Great Bathers 1898-1905

  • synthesis of traditional subject matter with innovative spatial construction
  • nude women blend with landscape
  • pyramidal arrangement
  • depicts air and space, as well as solid form
  • traditional background and foreground distinctions no longer exist
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Patricia Piccinini Key Points

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  • collaborative installations
  • felt restricted in her original study of economics, ‘felt so much better’ at gallery
  • all imagined
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Piccinini post modern frame

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  • challenges mainstream art, and ‘the masterpiece’
  • realistic portrayals of hybrid creatures
  • challenges typical art conventions
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Piccinini CF

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  • produces strong feelings in audience
  • challenges the judgemental nature of humans
  • links to ideas about innocence science and love
  • thinking of the big picture and the world we live in
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Piccinini structural frame

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Realistic texture and colour tones

Slow and purposeful collaborative process

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Piccinini artists practice

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Long design process
Deliberate and careful placement of elements in work
Months long collaborative and installation process

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Piccinini artowrk (young family)

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The Young Family 2002
inspired by scientists genetic modification plans 
ethical implications
evolution
human hair, silicon 
realistic and recognisable human parts 
nature vs nurture 
feelings of weariness and new life

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