Midterm Flashcards
Art is produced and and designed for male viewers pleasure
Male gaze
Idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person in a culture
Mean
Artistic pursuits beyond function. These often are related to self-expression, or self-gratification
Art for Art’s Sake
Artwork that is instructional or informative. That which teaches the audience something
Didactic
Art that provokes in the viewer a feeling of transcendence such as wonder and awe. Of high spiritual or intellectual worth.
Sublime
Works of art that are considered by certain people or institutions as constituting the greatest works of artistic merit. These are generally studied, referenced, and exhibited more than other works
Canon
Is the social relationship of objects in which someone enters. Reflects asymmetrical power relationships
Gaze
A language of symbols that has been utilized over time to signify a certain object or concept
Iconography
The material art is expressed in
Medium
Is the chief contributor of resources for the artist (such as financial resources)
Patron
Conveys information by means of images or words
Signs/signifier
An exact mathematical “patterned self-similarity”. Two spaces or regions demonstrate the same qualities
Symmetry
Smallest unit of visual information. Arranged in a 2 dimensional grid. The output of an image includes representations of different colors within each pixel
Pixel
Combines a variety of media into one presentation and generally has an image or a multiplicity of images together with a physical construction. Such mediums compete with mass culture on its own terms and are site specific
Installation
Who is Damien Hitst? What is he known for?
Contemporary artist known for creating high end art products for wealthy. One of his most famous creations was a human skull recreated in platinum and adorned with 8,601 diamonds which was later purchased by consortium led by hedge fund manager Nat Rothschild
Who is Banksy? What does he do?
English graffiti artist who utilizes public spaces in such a way as to critique the status quo. Much of his artwork is political and takes advantage of perspective in such a manner as to link the two dimensional space (walls) with three-dimensional space (objects or buildings)
A story that is told or written. Usually involves conflict and a distinct structure of concerning a beginning, middle, and end
Narrative
Who was the leading figure for the Pop Art movement
Andy Warhol
When did Andy Warhol live? What is he known for?
1928-1987
Known for bringing advertisement and commercial sensibilities into the art world. A couple notable examples of his work include Marilyn Diptych (1962) and Green Coca-Cola Bottles (1962)
In the contemporary world what is the most salable form of art
Painting
A French military term which connotes a hostility to artistic tradition and a rejection of social conventions
Avant-garde
Who is Charles Saatchi?
Major global advertising executive who has elevated the purchasing and investing of art
What is High Art? Where do you see it?
Art that is considered more respectable among the cultural elite is known as High Art. It is often exhibited in galleries, is generally not mass produced and has a close relationship to academia.
What did Guy Debord, in his 1967 work, The Society of the Spectacle, argue?
He argued that in societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles.
Who is Pierre Bourdieu? What did he do?
originated the economic theories regarding social wealth and specifically social capital, cultural capital, and symbolic capital. Ultimately he determined that there was a clear link between class and preferences in art, music, film, and theatre.
In her installation, The Dinner Party (1979), what did Judy Chicago try to do?
sought to praise women and their accomplishments. Thirty-nine individual place settings were arranged on the triangular table to celebrate women in history, such as Hatshepsut, who ruled Egypt as a pharaoh, and writers such as Virginia Wolf.
Who is recognized for adding another layer of meaning to a widely recognized symbol known as the American flag
Jasper John
Who is Barbara Kruger? What did she do?
She used her skills as a designer to create large posters using strong graphics and pithy slogans as demonstrated in her lithograph, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face) (1981).
a means of accessing the subconscious directly. Artistic and literary practitioners of such a technique ignore or suppress their need to edit themselves.
Automatism
This surrealist artist is widely considered the most famous from the genre. Among the more widely known artists he worked with include Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. Most westerners are familiar with his painting, The Persistence of Memory.
Salvador Dali
What refers to a technique the surrealist movement invented that combined several different artistic efforts by separate individuals into one image.
Exquisite corpse
What do aspects of modernism include an emphasis on?
originality and ahistoricism.
public declaration of artistic or political intent
Manifesto
FT Marinetti an Italian poet, wrote the Futurist Manifesto in 1908, which sought to what?
glorify war and technology in art
The chief inspiration for Surrealist theory was?
Sigmund Freud
Who is Andre Breton? What is he largely credited for?
was a French poet and writer who authored the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. He is largely credited by historians as one of the founders behind the surrealist movement and invented the term automatism.
Who developed the artistic style known as cubism? What did they begin to use later?
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
Later, these artists began to introduce recognizable pieces of material reality into their compositions using collage.
In 1982 what percentage of museum exhibitions by living artists were given to women?
2%
In his composition, Lucifer (1947), what did Jackson Pollock utilize?
a ritualized movement of his body and arms to splatter paint onto the canvas. His “poured paintings,” as they have been called, had no predetermined pattern.
Part of revolt against realistic tradition, the dada movement was skeptical about a world that could produce World War I and sought to critique what?
contemporary culture through the production of art that often incorporated commercial images, such as magazines and advertisements.
What are the The Untitled Film Stills?
They are all black and white photos in which Cindy Sherman places herself as an unnamed actress in shots reminiscent of foreign films.
What is an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture?
Meme
Untitled (1988) - Nancy Burson & Alex Schaefer –what does this deal with?
Chase Burning
