Midterm

Question 1

Answer 1

Roy Lictenstein

Big Painting VI

1965

Pop Art

1. Chooses Comic Panel
2. Draws Panel
3. Projects drawing onto canvas
4. Paints over projection

• Juxtapose mechanical vs. handmade
• Layered work like Jasper John’s
• Mocking spontaneous abstract express. brushstroke; by making mark in calculated manner
• Readymade found image taken from low culture and placed in “high art”
• Benday dots “screendots” & dark bold outlines

Question 2

Answer 2

Jasper Johns

Flag

1955

Neo-Dada

1. Bed sheet collage with newspaper on top.
2. Encaustic in a multilayered type manner
3. Ready Made image

• Referencing abstract expressionism; gestural markmaking;
• mocking because hot wax is freezing the abstract express. sponteneity brushstroke.
• 1955: Cold war, duration of the Koran War; communism scare, pollitically charged
• seemingly emotionally neutral
• taking a posture of indiference
• “pretend there is a tension between political scare and neutrality

Question 3

Answer 3

Rauchenberg

Bed

1955

Neo-Dada

1. Combine/ mix media assemblage
2. Paint & Sculpture
3. Verticalizing them & Framing them
4. applies drips on assemblage

• Refereing back to the horizontal axis, even though the composition is verticalized
• Flat bed picture plane; the way it prints out in the printers
• shift in axis
• top of the work doesn’t neccessarily corrospond w/ the head violate head to toe corrospondance w/ the human body

Question 4

Answer 4

Jackson Pollock

Full Fathom 5, 1947 (2b)

Autumn Rhythm, 1950

Abstract Expressionism/ Action Painting

1. Put canvas on the floor working in the horizontal
2. walking in and out approaching canvas w/ no compostion in mind
3. action of his whole body
4. splatters & drips
5. mixed what was in his pockets, change coines, etc.

• Small Size Drip Painting
• Unusual vertical Orientation; not like his horizontals* (FFF)
• hidden depths, what is burried inside it
• even through it is given to us vertically, it was made horizontally
• Flat bed picture plane break apart from the easel making frame

Question 5

Answer 5

Allan Kaprow

Yard

1961

Environment

1. Environment: Yard
2. consist of found objects (readymade) that has been collected and put into the environment
3. put as much into his work as Pollack

• Kaprow wrote essay ‘legacy of pollack’ what can we do with his contribution?
• Takes Pollack’s idea of performance; taken by his theatricality & creates happenings ; which can last from a year or more and allows flexability
• works with expanding the frame from easel to an almost mural frame & even happening further expand the frame

Question 6

Answer 6

Kooning

Door to the River

1960

Abstract Expressionism

1. Slash and burn, choppy harsh, brushstrokes
2. vivid colors

• Doorway/ gateway to the unknown (river)
• revalation that the audiance differentiate between appearance but rather its essence
• appearance is hiding essence
• inner/ outer appearance; metaphysical (American)

Question 7

Answer 7

Dubuffet

Place for Awakenings

1960

Informalism/ Tachisme

• Impacted by the war
• no time to be metaphysical
• encounter, grunge, dirt & debris
• pollack-like overall composition
• no hierarcial scale
• unidealized image of landscape (dirt)
• crafting fine art detail

Question 8

Answer 8

Oldenburg

The Store

1961

Environment

1. enter stores & walk through
2. fillinf his store w/ objects
3. molding & mishapen objects
4. not beautifully crafted

• falling apart; idea of entropic waste
• not shiny new perfect object
• giving is things we walk by everyday
• confronted w/ objects
• add to injury adds expensive price tag
• turn into commodoties; art obj. over inflated capitalism

Question 9

Answer 9

Chamberlain

Toy

1961

Assemblage

1. Auto parts scraps/ junk
2. creates a relief
3. hangs on wallsAssemblage: collecting & embalming materials/ found made

• waste
• recycling of planned obsolecence

Question 10

Answer 10

Shiraga

Challenging Mud

1955

Happenings

1. horizontal roster; on the ground
2. medium is mud
3. uses is body; challenging mud
4. influenced by Pollack

• Has an audience (Media is there)
• Tokyo; outside and photographed happenings (never permanent events)
• Preserve singlarity efermal art event & becomes trueless through photo
• indexical marke made w/ his body

Question 11

Answer 11

Yves Klein

Anthopometries of Blue Period

1960

Happenings

1. Naked Woman; living paint brushes
2. Very Sexist; game playing
3. International Klein Blue
4. Stongly Influenced by Jackson Pollack
5. Horizontal actionindexical mark b/c woman body