Midterm People and Groups Flashcards
AFRI-COBRA
Chicago based group of black artists who used vibrant color
Alexis P. Gumbs
Black feminist and activist
Inspired by June Jordan to attend Barnard like her
Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”
Quilt controversy in the story
Maggie using the quilt as an actual blanket instead of hanging it on the wall
Kind of object - quilt as blanket vs art on the wall
Use - everyday, untouched and preserved
Heritage - practice: intangible knowledge and skill (tradition); material: the actual thing
Home space - living space and museum
Amadou Hampâté Bâ
African art
Initiation association (secret society)
Bamana culture (Mali)
N’tomo society (fork like) and Komo society (horse hair)
Andrew Wyeth
Painted Garret Room
From PA, his father taught him how to paint
Art Students League artists
Charles Alston and Romare Bearden studied painting here
They’re artists in Who Look at Me
El Anatsui
Kra!
Bottle cap art
Also made engraved food trays and ceramic pots
Ewe - his ethnic background (group in Ghana)
Elizabeth Alexander
Wrote Light of the World, memoir ab Ficre, her husband
Languages are “human bridges”… referring to Ficre
Elizabeth Catlett
American and Mexican artist known for her sculptures and prints featuring African American women
US gov’t didn’t allow her into US but later did
Ficre Ghebreyesus
East African culture is reflected in most of his art
Political refugee from Eritrea, in East Africa
Traveled to three continents (Eritrea, Sudan, Italy, Germany, United States)
Studied printmaking at Bob Blackburn’s printmaking workshop
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Art historian who discussed Garret Room
Henry Glassie and 3 master contexts
Folklorist
1. creation - meaning made in the creation process
2. communication - what object communicates and how it conveys meaning
3. consumption - meanings of creator are eclipsed by meanings of consumer
June Jordan
Wrote the children’s book Who Look at Me
Mother: Milicent Jordan
“Love is life force”
Lebohang Kganye
Did photographs with her mother photoshopped in
Lily Hope
Chilkat mask protector weaver
Bringing order to her thoughts motivates her to weave
Describes weaving as breathing with the universal consciousness
Everyone can feel the ancestral being-ness in the room (how her art is received in the world)
Marcel Duchamp
Fountain, 1917
R. Mutt
Readymade
Ex. Bicycle wheel
Copies? Replicas? (Sanctioned replicas)
Institutional critique
Artistic intervention
Milton Meltzer
Meltzer is June Jordan’s publisher
She worked hard to get certain pictures and poems published
Sherrie Levine
Made a gold Fountain version “Buddha”
Symeon Shimin
From Russia
Attended art classes at night
Painted murals and designed posters
Work has been in galleries, museums, books, and magazines
Tom Clark
Model in Garret Room and for several of Wyeth’s paintings
Tom Feelings and Muriel Feelings
Created Jambo Means Hello
Lived in Guyana and Tom lived in Ghana
Vanessa Tembane
Takes photos of family and removes certain figures and uses photo transfer process to put a capulana (textile type) on it
Moved to south africa but from mozambique
Photographer
They use capulana as a baby carrier
Puts capulana in the background of images… layers of meaning
Printed on fabric
