Pop, Minimalism, Conceptual Flashcards
What does Pop Art want painting to do that is different from the Abstract Expressionists? (Lichtenstein, Masterpiece, 1963) Where should it be engaged? What should its subject be?
They took inspiration from dada, made it “anarchy” and replaced it with an affirmation of mass culture. Artists did so by injecting humor, parody, or irony into recognizable objects
Be able to discuss silkscreen as a printmaking technique: what are its most striking visual characteristics? What are its advantages?
Process:
1. Create a stencil
2. Attach stencil to a mesh material stretched in a frame
3. Force ink through porous fabric in the open area, printing on the surface below
- Use additional screens to print multiple colors, lining up the stencils through registering (technique of alignment used with color printmaking to ensure that successive matrices print their respective colors in the right place on the paper)
Visual characteristics:
-Bold, bright colors
-sharp, crisp line and edges
- highly detailed and complex images
Advantages
- simple and inexpensive
-can be used on anything like paper, fabric, metal
-mass produce them
What does Andy Warhol say is the fitting subject for art? How does that connect to his choice of medium, the silkscreen?
He believed that anything can be a subject of art, he was interested in the most popular thing people were using or buying (ex:Coca Cola). His use of silkscreen made it so his art was accessible and be able to explore mass production and art together.
How is Minimalism different from Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art? (Frank Stella, Valparaiso Flesh and Green, 1963) What are some of its distinguishing qualities?
These artists believed that nothing should get in the way of uplifting experience and direct connection that a viewer has with art.
Qualities:
-geometric single or repeated forms
- deliberate lack of expression
- self referential
- factory made or shop bought materials
-space aware
Be able to discuss acrylic as a painting medium. What are its advantages over oil? What are its disadvantages?
Acrylic is made up of pigment, water, and acrylic resin(vehicle).
Advantages: pure bright colors do not yellow, ability to thin it and pour it without oily residue, no sheen of oil, cleans up with water, inexpensive
Disadvantage of acrylic:
- dries quickly so paint stops where brush stops, flat and dry looking, sticky, hard to blend
What makes the Conceptual artists so radically different from everybody? What are the trends that have emerged in their art?
Conceptual artists believed that all artists formulate an idea and then mechanically form the object that represents that idea. Focused on the creative process rather than the physical art object and produced visually uninteresting pieces as a vehicle for presenting artistic ideas.
What kind of art kind Yoko Ono make in the 1960s? What are three distinctive qualities of her (and all) performance art?
She made performance art which is a theatrically based work of art in which an artist uses his or her body as a medium to express meaning.
Qualities
-use their body as the material
-take art directly to viewers
-create works that do not endure and cannot be sold
In what ways does Earth Art destroy the notion of the gallery system? (Think about how you have to see it. Who can own it?)
No one can own or profit off of Earth Art since it is using the Earth as its canvas. The only people that could “own” it is people that are able to witness and see it themselves
