Paintings - Details/Meaning- Midterm

Question 1

Jackson Pollock, Number 31,

Answer 1

Abstract Expressionism (Energetic)
Action Painting, An expression of his emotional state, dramatic connection to his work, hero quality, enhanced by art critic

Question 2

Franz Kline, Black Reflections,

Answer 2

Abstract Expressionism - (Energetic) Inner State is Reflected in this work. Deep Consciousness
-drew inspiration for large compositions from small studies

Question 3

Mark Rothko, No. 13 (White,
Red on Yellow),

Answer 3

Abstract Expressionism - (Contemplative) , layers, soft edges, not even, large color fields,

Question 4

Eduardo Paolozzi, I Was a Rich Man’s Plaything

Answer 4

Independent Group (pre-pop art)
Popular culture/glamor of american consumerism/response to contemporary culture

Question 5

Amédée Ozenfant, 1920, Still Life, Dishes,

Answer 5

Purismo,
focused on form, not details, came from cubism

Question 6

Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that
makes today’s home so different, so appealing

Answer 6

Pop Art
Post WWII response to consumerism, mass production

Question 7

Richard Hamilton, Interior II,

Answer 7

Pop Art, Mixed Media
The incorporation of elements that stick out of the painting
recalls the Cubist practice of mixing real objects with images of them on a single canvas and further dislocates readings of the painting’s representation of interior space.

Question 8

Peter Blake , On the Balcony

Answer 8

Pop Art
Regular people holding art they can’t afford, visual reality of life, looks like a collage but is made of oil paint, original vs reproduction,

Question 9

Robert Rauschenberg, Bed,

Answer 9

popular culture, found objects, dripping paint
Sculpture wants to turn itself back into an object (Judd)

Question 10

Raoul Hausmann, The Art Critic

Answer 10

developed photomontage as a tool of satire and political protest.

Question 11

Hugo Ball in performance, Zurich,

Answer 11

Dada
Men confused with Machines, Founder of Dada, Sound Poetry

Question 12

Marcel Duchamp. Fountain,1917

Answer 12

Ready made - loses it’s function and become art- industrially produced - not made by the artist

Question 13

“Dada 1916-1923,” Sidney Janis Gallery

Answer 13

Designed by Marcel Duchamp
Dada exhibit
inspired Rauschenberg to create combines from found objects

Question 14

Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram

Answer 14

Combine, Goat,
Merged sculpture and painting, questioned the surface, 2D/3D - broke the pictorial surface, found objects turned into art.

Question 15

Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram: Preliminary Study 1, 1955

Answer 15

A preliminary sketch for Monogram shows that early on, Rauschenberg had considered mounting the goat against a nearly square (rather than vertical) panel and placing it behind a ladder.

Question 16

Robert Rauschenbert, Monogram: First State

Answer 16

First version of Monogram that Rauschenberg was not completely about as he was challenged by how to best place the Goat. Disliked that the goat could only be viewed from one side

Question 17

Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon,

Answer 17

Combine. Rauschenberg continues to blur the limits between painting and sculpture but takes his criticism of abstract expressionism even further by bringing back subject matter and narratives into art.

Question 18

Jasper, Johns, Flag,

Answer 18

Neo-Dada
Spatial relations, readymade, cold war,

Question 19

Jasper Johns,Three Flags

Answer 19

Neo -Dada
He is challenging traditional ideas of representation and space in art.
The flags are arranged so that the smallest looks like it is farther away when in fact it is the closest to the viewer as it is on top of the others.

Question 20

Jasper Johns: Target with Four Faces

Answer 20

Neo Dada-
play with the questions of the target as a symbol, or a sign, or both (the concept of aiming and hitting your mark)
-the anxiety of propaganda and mass consumption, the false illusion of freedom as well as deconstruction (unmasking prisons we don’t know we are in)

Question 21

) Robert Rauschenberg, Estate,

Answer 21

Pop Art,
these images (Statue of Liberty, view of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, the stop sign, etc) have in common is that everyone is familiar with them. He is playing with all the materials like in the combines but in this case on a flat surface.

Question 22

Roy Lichtenstein:Drowning Girl,

Answer 22

Pop Art
low art transferred to high art
Lichtenstein is playing with the idea of the act of painting, not exactly a readymade but reproducing it . He is basically saying this work is going to be one original even though the comic book that it came from is printed and sold across America. He is cropping out, selecting from a large format. There is an element of parody in this.

Question 23

Roy Lichenstein, Ziing,

Answer 23

Pop Art
It makes the work look like it means sound - you imagine sound- onomatopoeia
deliberately making it look like the mass produced thing even though hand painted

Question 24

Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam!

Answer 24

Pop Art
low’ mass-produced commercial image with the traditionally venerated medium of large-scale easel painting. Lichtenstein also explained the significance of the military subject matter saying he was interested in anything I could use as a subject that was emotionally strong – usually love, war, or something that was highly-charged and emotional subject matter. “ source:

Question 25

Roy Lichtenstein,
Explosion,

Answer 25

Pop Art
Lichenstein used images from war comics to explore existential subject matter: threat of nuclear war
Vietnam War first time that Americans access to horrific imagery of war and violence.
threat of the Cold War informed daily life.
The Cuban Missile Crisis had recently happened in 1962. Cuban Missile Crisis:

Question 26

Roy Lichtenstein, Red
Painting

Answer 26

Pop Art
A comment on the gestural, “pure expression” narrative of Abstract Expressionism, but reframed in the Pop Art aesthetic
Painting of a brush stroke as a response to Pollock and Abstract Expressionism

Question 27

Roy Lichtenstein, Rouen Cathedral,

Answer 27

Pop Art
staccato brushwork and unmixed colors are a logical antecedent to Lichtenstein’s primary colors and benday dots — a cheeky update on a movement and an artist.

Question 28

James Rosenquist, President Elect,

Answer 28

Pop Art
Surreal pairing of one of the most recognized people in the world with the commercial aesthetics of sleekness, desirability, efficiency calls into question the absurdity of popular culture and mass consumption.

Question 29

James Rosenquist, F-111,

Answer 29

Pop Art
Huge scale, critique of consumerism and mass production, Vietnam,
He characterized the imagery of the painting as “a plane flying through the flak of an economy,” with the little girl under the metallic hairdryer as its pilot; he described its underwater diver in more ominous terms, as evocative of humans gasping for air during an atomic holocaust.”

Question 30

Allan Kaprow, Yard,

Answer 30

Happening
Kaprow was inspired by the gestural, spontaneous, and expressive work of Jackson Pollock and wanted to translate those ideas and feelings into a socially engaging format, one that allowed the viewer to participate not only with their eyes but with their bodies.

Question 31

Variations V, a piece by John Cage

Answer 31

Happening
A kind of explicit, corporeal engagement with video as medium is reflected in the performance’s sound component. Sound, like video, exists in this dance visually and even kinetically

Question 32

Kaprow, Happenings in 6 Parts,

Answer 32

Happening
“you will become part of the happenings; you will simultaneously experience them.

Question 33

Allan Kaprow’s ‘Women licking jam off a car,’ Household

Answer 33

Happening
highlighted gender roles and their constraints and absurdities

Question 34

Claes Oldenburg,
The Store,

Answer 34

Happening
the slippery line between art and commodity and the role of the artist in self-promotion.”

Question 35

Claes Oldenburg,
Floor Cone,

Answer 35

Pop Art
real-world referent is complicated by both its size and its material. Oldenburg exacerbated this deformation caused by gravity for his 1963 solo show