HY artists Flashcards
Jackson Pollock key points
- became interested in psychoanalysis as a means of exploring self identity
- abstract expressionism - widened methods of artmaking
Jackson Pollock CF
- close involvement between artist and artwork, whole body used
- critics played huge role in promoting reputation
Jackson Pollock Subjective frame
Emotional intensity and personal language
Jackson Pollock structural
- use and developement of personal symbols
- innovative methods
Jackson Pollock Artists Practice
- 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
Jackson Pollock Artwork (Pasiphae)
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
Jackson Pollock Artwork (Blue Poles)
- 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
Gordon Bennett key points
Discovered aboriginal herritage around age 11
Appropriation
Herritage olays huge role in art
Gordon Bennett Subjective Frame
Personal identity and personal visions, frustrations
Gordon Bennett CF
- current world events eg war
- violence, politics, race, social alienation
Gordon Bennett cultural frame
Heritage, identity
Gordon Bennett Artists practice
- 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)
Gordon Bennett Artwork (Notes To Basquiat)
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
Gordon Bennett Artwork (Home Decor)
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
Gordon Bennett Quotes
When the responsibility for interpretation is thrown back on the viewer by the artists silence, then that is how art should be
Jackson Pollock quote
My opinion is that new needs need new technique
Paul Cezanne key points
- Transformed paint into a visible structure - post impressionism
- ineterested in forms of nature, violence and depth
- post imoressionism
Cezanne subjective frame
Interpretation of subject matter
Personal ideas
Cezanne structural frame
- innovative spatial construction
- no traditional distincitions of space
- structural revolution
Cezanne Conceptual frame
- personal journey between artworks
- introduced world to revolutionary approach to the 2D surface
Paul Cezanne Artists practice
- 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
Cezanne Artwork (the great bathers)
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
Patricia Piccinini Key Points
- collaborative installations
- felt restricted in her original study of economics, ‘felt so much better’ at gallery
- all imagined
Piccinini post modern frame
- challenges mainstream art, and ‘the masterpiece’
- realistic portrayals of hybrid creatures
- challenges typical art conventions
