Lecture 8 Art Informel/modernist architecture Flashcards
What is art informel interested in?
Different types of reality and social structures. Wanted to question motions of childhood and psychology.
What are surrealists interested in?
Notion of baseness. Objects have lives outside how we know them, they are informed. Interested in space, things thrown away, memory, and trauma.
What became a muse for surrealists?
Paris.
What does Dubuffet’s ‘smoker by a wall 1945’ show? *
A comical clown like figure but sinister. Time of reflection.
What art movement existed before abstraction?
American abstraction.
Describe the features of Dubuffet’s Olympia 1950
Body is formless, and flattened. Becomes just ‘stuff’ and whole mass of material. Haute pate notion of trauma.
What does Dubuffet’s ‘will to power 1946’ show?
A reworking of themes and ideas. Looks like hitler but doesn’t look strong anymore.
What did Wols did pictures of in the 1930s?
Photographs of kidneys, rabbits heards. Things that are normally disregarded and not represented in art.
What did Wols paint in the 1940s?
Paints the relationship between philosophy and art.
What was Wols nicknamed? And where was his work shown?
Hailed a French Jackson pollock, however produced in a completely different conditions. Work shown in NYC.
What type of art was produced in the late 19th/20th century?
Art Brute/Crude art/Raw arts
What did Art Brut depict?
Primitivism, the noble savage beyond bourgeois cultures and norms. The unseen/the fugitive. Tried to find alternative kind of beings, eg myths, fairy tales.
Who was the artist thought to be during Art Brut era?
An outsider, mad genius.
What did modernist architecture represent?
A break from the past. Buildings promoted health and movement of air.
What would modernist say was beautiful?
Functionalist and minimalist buildings. No excess, and streamlining.
Why were stilts an important aspect of modernist buildings?
Helped to circulate air and life.
Describe typical modernist buildings
Stilts, light and airy. Steel frames. Communicates with the outside. Flat roofs. Balconies. Not just white, primary colours as well.
When was the end of modernism/beginning of post modern and what marked it?
Dynamite 1972.
What era is Art informal associated with?
France post 1845
What is the painting and what does relate to?
Dubuffet’s Olympia.
What was the name of the ideological ‘war’ occurring at the time of Abstract Expressionism?
The Cold War.
Greenberg declares that American avant-garde painting places greater emphasis on the ‘flatness’ of what?
The surface.
The technique deployed by Jackson Pollock is generally referred to as what type of painting?
Drip.
