Post-Modernist (1978-2006 CE) Flashcards
House in New Castle County
Borrows freely from other styles (contrasting elements from distinct periods and places)
Response to modern architecture (like Villa Savoye)
“Mischievous and sometimes perplexing architectural features”
Floating arched screen in the front (identifies the structure as a house, inspired by Victorian houses)
Back facade (giant arched screen framed by the edges of the gabled roof)
Four stubby columns (Doric) that come and disappear out of no where
Quirky interior
House in New Castle County IDs
Delaware, US
Robert Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott Brown
1978-1983 CE
Post-Modernist
Wood frame and stucco
Pink Panther
Part of an exhibition
Depicts 1960s Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield hugging the Pink Panther and covering her exposed boob (like Birth of Venus or Venus of Urbino!)
Commercial sexuality
Kitschy
Contemporary sense of the artist as a critical integrator of mass media and culture
Pink Panther IDs
Jeff Koons
1988 CE
Post-Modernist
Glazed porcelain
Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain
Frank Gehry
1997 CE
Post-Modernist
Titanium, glass, and limestone
Guggenheim Museum
Not Neoclassical (unusual for a museum at the time)
Meant to be better than Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
Sometimes considered to be Deconstructivism
Satellite branches funded by foreign governments to expand the reach of the museum
Inspired by Italian Baroque style (juxtaposition between bending, rippling, and unfurling shapes)
Part of a Basque urban renewal program after the city went through an economic depression in the 1980s
Unorthodox design brought international acclaim
Benefitted the local economy
Lying with the wolf
Displays the relationship between animal and human (figures nurture each other, takes a story that is normally violent and makes it comforting, they’re no longer predator and prey)
Part of a series about the relationship between women and animals that incorporate stories and mythology
Lying with the wolf IDs
Kiki Smith
2001 CE
Post-Modernist
Ink and pencil on paper
Darkytown Rebellion IDs
Kara Walker
2001 CE
Post-Modernist
Cut paper and projection on wall
Darkytown Rebellion
Challenges the viewers tolerance
Occupies the space between racism and race affirmation
Makes the viewer feel like they’re walking into the space
Shows a rebellion (blood, severed limbs, woman attacking a baby?, etc.)
Reflects on the historical representation of African Americans in American visual culture and stereotypes
Explores racial identification
Stadia II IDs
Julie Mehretu
2004 CE
Post-Modernist
Ink and acrylic on canvas
Stadia II
Explores themes of nationalism and revolution as they occur in art, sports, and contemporary politics
Either a sports arena, amphitheater, opera house, or political chamber
Invokes our experiences as individuals and collective bodies in such spaces
Provides a setting for gatherings, protests, prayer, and riots
Layers of paint and drawing (like history)
References abstraction
Preying mantra
Global in nature
Relishes complicating Western and non-Western cultural norms
Questions how we see gender, sexuality, and cultural identity
Inspired by Dada
Centers on female subjectivity, exoticism, and hybridism (in concept and imagery)
Female creature reclining on a geometric blanket (resembling a traditional Kuba cloth) between trees
She stares at the viewer suggestively with her right hand behind a cone-like crown on her head
Posture camouflaged by skin texture
Tree is emblematic of the creation myths in many cultures
Holding a green serpent (like Eve in Genesis)
Name references praying mantis (females become cannibals during mating)
Praying mantis women are violent, but the subject of the collage is submissive
Preying mantra IDs
Wangechi Mutu
2006 CE
Post-Modernist
Mixed media on Mylar
