London Flashcards
Abstract Expressionism
1943-1970 First American art movement “action painting” Movement, energy and action Pollock
Blaue Reiter
More extreme color, extended Fauvism Kirchener Kandinsky Paul Klee
Color Field
Variation from “Action Painting” large abstract paintings Rothko *Seagram’s Murals
Conceptualism
Idea Art - Process sometimes more important than final artwork Rejected pop art, expressionism, surrealism, unique art and crafted objects, Developed from Minimalism
Cubism
Revolution in Form Influenced by the un-seen but known world, Atom, X-rays, Relativity Braque Picasso
DADA
1916-1923 reject rational thought (post WW1) overthrow old establishments Arp Schwitters Duchamp
De Stijl
1917-1931 Mondrian no reference to anything in nature, straight lines, primary colors and white black grey vitality and tranquility lines
Expressionism
Distortion of Color form to evoke an emotional response
Fauvism
lots color/non realistic color,fun Derain Matisse
Futurism
1909-1918 First movement to have a manifesto Glorify War, Fascism Boccioni
Impressionism
First Art movement/Paris Upset the conventional Neo-Classical Train transportation/paint in tubes/mobility Monet and Degas, not sharply painted or defined
Minimalism
Major form of visual art Andre Morris - Unititled Judd - Untitled Flavin
Neo-Dada
Pre-pop art Used found objects artists don’t define work Combine Rauschenberg
Neo-Expressionism
Revival of Painting Richter - Cage 1-6
Pop Art
Making art out of daily life Mass-Produced Warhol Lichtenstein
Post-Impressionism
1880-1906 Felt Impressionists lacked form Cezanne Seurat Van Gogh
Surrealism
Revolution from Reason 1924-1945 Freudian and dream Ernst *Miro - painting (blue with horse) Magritte Dali
Young British Artists (yBas)
Michael Craig-Martin (artist and teacher) Freeze - Damien Hirst Sensation exhibition Charles Saatchi - collectd/promoted yBas
Contemporary Art Ready Made
Use of everyday objects to make something new Cubework - Eternal
Contemporary Art Transformation
Taking everyday objects and applying something to them to make them something new Roger Hiorns and copper sulfate engines and room
Contemporary Art Light
Use of light applied to everyday objects David Batchelor - candelabra 3 bottles internally lit by light
Contemporary Art Site Specific Art
Art specific to a region Tracey Emin - Baby things Child toys placed around if left behind by a child
Contemporary Art Photography
Use of photograph pictures to showcase something dramatic Thomas Demand - Presidency
Contemporary Art Video
Video art Christian Marclay - The clock Each scene depicts a minute and shows a clock with the real time
Monet - Rouen Cathedral, Sunset (1892-94
Monet Water Lillies
Cezanne – Mont Sainte-Victoire
Post Impressionism
Derain
Pool of London
Fauvism
- Berlin Street Scene
Expressionism
Braque
Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantelpiece
Cubism
Boccioni – Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913)
Futurism
Mondrian *Composition C (III), with Red, Yellow and Blue
De Stijl
Duchamp - Fountain
Readymade
Dada
Miro – Painting (1927)
Surrealism
Magritte – The False Mirror
Surrealism
THE TWO GREAT 20TH CENTURY ARTISTS
Picasso and Matisse
Picasso - The Studio (1928)
Picasso
Woman in a Red Armchair (1937
Picasso - Guernica (1937)
Picasso – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
Rothko – Seagram’s Murals (1958-1959)
Johns – Three Flags (1958)Uses flags, numbers, targets in his work; things “we already know”. Makes the viewer re-examine the mundane, to pay attention to the world in which we exist.
Neo Dada
Lichtenstein – Whaam! (1963)
Pop Art
Judd - Untitled
Minimalism
Christo – The Gates, Central Park, New York
Conceptualism
Richter
Cage 1 – 6 (2006
Neo Expressionism
Kiefer
To The Unknown Painter
Explores themes of loss, memory and collective guilty of Hitler’s Nazi Germany.. Work seeks possibilities of a society coming to terms with its past.
Paints National Socialist architecture ,often designed by Albert Speer. References building to the Unknown Soldier.
The irony of Kiefer’s title is not lost in the fact that Hitler- himself famously a failed painter - exists in parallel to the millions who died at his hands.
Sensation exhibition
“The Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition of young British artists, which prompted protests and resignations was hailed yesterday as one of the most successful shows it has ever held.”
Charles Saatchi, a British art collector, bought and promoted the work of the young British artists.
Sensation was an exhibition of the art he owned and the first exhibition in a major institution for the young British artists.
Sensation was also shown in New York and Berlin to international acclaim.
Damien Hirst – The Physical Impossibility Of Death In The Mind Of Someone Living
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