Slide Exam Flashcards
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Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Can, 1964
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- Pop art => silk screening
- Canned food represented that time
- Fears of Cold War => stocking up on canned food
- American capitalism, mocking advertisements
- Portrait of his mother, childhood staple
- “My life is dominating me”
2
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Andy Warhol, Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962
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- Form of art propaganda
- Consumerism
- Multitude of Coke bottles represents mass production
3
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Andy Warhol, Double Elvis, 1963
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- Elvis appropriated other people’s work
- Elvis was a commodity
- Everything that is famous is a commodity
- Product
- Silver background => product
- Doubling him = objectifying him
- Only see celebrities as products
- Sold on their image
4
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Anya Gallacio, Preserve Beauty, 1991-2003
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- Gerberas => disposable commodity
- Momento mori
- Life is going to end, death is natural
- Find beauty in death and long process rsther than fleeting moment
5
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Braque, Mandora, 1909-10
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- Cubism
- Second Stage: Analytical
- Shows one object from different angle (kinetic)
- Restricted color palette
- Aragmented styles suggests sense of rhythm & acoustic reverberation, matching the musical subject
6
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Cezanne, Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L’Esaque, c. 1883
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- Post-impressionism, sets stage for Cubism
- Geometric shapes
- Restricted pallet
- Flat
- Where he once lived with family
- Restore sense of order and structure
7
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Cezanne, The Large Bathers, 1894-1905
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- Wood nymphs
- From his imagination (never actually happened)
- Part of a series
- Moved away from traditional presentation of paintings to avoid fleeting fads
8
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Chapman Brothers, The Chapman Family Collection, 2002
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- McDonald’s
- Critque of consumerism
- Intergated into our society– immune to its presence
- When first displayed, were said to be ancient artifacts
- Commodity-fetishism
- Critique on how museums present artifacts as asthetic objects
9
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Dali, Mountain Lake, 1938
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- Freud’s concept of optical illusion, dreams can morph and change
- Dead brother
- Lost communication
- Failed communication between Hitler and Chamberlain
- Reflection of the rock = vagina
- Actual rock = Virgin Mary -> ironic
- In terms of Mary, baby Jesus looks like a skull
- Crutches = need support
- Snails = intelligence
- Lake = Christ or ditch to bury someone
- Mountain lake = place of peace to mourn for death
10
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Dali, Self Portrait as Mona Lisa, 1954
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- Appropriation
- Critique of art
- Lessening the value of the work
- Making it a joke
- Signature moustache and distinctive eyes
- Holding gold currency -> paint Dali as both creator and self-created
- Artist as his own subject
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Dali, The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937
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- Freud used Greek mythology to identify complexes
- Ants– Sex & Death (orgasm = mini death)
- Egg = rebirth
- (Dude on pedestal)
- (Group in back– time?)
- Dog eating hand = death of something that was once beautiful
12
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Dali, Un Chien Andalou, 1929
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- Surrealist Film
- Gender roles/stereotypes
- Hand in Street - society’s facination with death
- Adrenaline from woman’s death ignites sexual desires
- Ants = Sex & Death
- Books - Gun = Knowledge is power
- Men’s control over women
- Only sees what men want her to see
- Piano =romance
- Ten Commandments & Priest = Morals
- Donkey heads = animalistic tendancies
- Nonlinear (10 years later, etc.) purposely appeared as though it could be linear
13
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Damien Hirst, A Thousand Years, 1990
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- Flies (Fruit in safe room meat in with zapper)
- Can get more out of life when venturing out of comfort zone
- Flies don’t understand death– we do– its directed towards us (not actually about the flies)
14
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Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991
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- If this was seen in real life– you’d be dead
- Can never explain and experience death
15
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Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919
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- Appropriation
- Lessening the value by poking fun
- Commenting on: What makes this art?
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Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
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- Readymade (taking away the function)
- Art because he said it was art
- Chosen by artist, not made by artist
- Critique of the art world
- Death of classical art
17
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Eadweard Muybridge, Annie G. Galloping, 1886
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- Photography, “primitive cinematography”
- Photographic studies of motion
- Early work in motion picture production
- Subject matter = animal locomotion
- Used multiple cameras for stop motion photos
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Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993
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- Photoshopped -> photo copied photographs and paper to make photo
- Sense of movement from papers flying L -> R
- Recreated after original painting by famous Japanese artist Hosukai
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Man Ray, Cadeau, 1921
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- Ready-made
- Nails make it negative = both objects seperately have good intentions/funcitons but together can be ultimately dangerous/hazardous
- Saddistic overtones
20
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Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, 1863
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- Realism
- Subject matter = nude female w/ fully clothed men
- Rejected when submitted to traditonal salon
- Not classical context, modern day France
- Woman not Venus, confrontational stare directly at us
- Men fully clothed don’t look @ her or us
- Assumption of sexuality in non-classicized manner
21
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Manet, Olympia, 1863
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- Beginning of modern art
- Prostitute & Maid (controversy)
- Not classically beautiful
- Confrontational gaze
22
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Marco Evaristti, Helena, 2000
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- Social experiment => tested morals
- Brought up ethical issues
- He is not killing the fish – the viewers are making the choise
- Interconnection between technology, desire, and ethics on the “use” of animals
23
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Mark Rothko, Red on Maroon, 1959
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- Abstract Expressionism
- Took away the “religious” aspect of classical paintings, only left the frame so you can find your own spirituality
- Help you relax, meditate for hours
- Colorfield painting
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Mondrian, Composition C (No. III) with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1935
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- Spiritual
- Meditation
- Geometric => simplicity
- Includes all of the universe in one painting (synthesizing the universe)
- Based on works of Kandinsky & religion of Helena Blavatsky (Theosophy)
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Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, 1942
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- Surrealist Film
- Gender roles
- Dream-like– looped
- Not being able to rationalize her situation
- Mirrored Figure– extention of her
- Table scene– internal conflict
26
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Monet, The Waterlily Pond, 1899
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- Impressionism
- Interpretation of the scene
- Reaction against photography
- Abstraction
27
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Nan Goldin, Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC, 1991
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- Drag queens
- Diaristic photography
- Showcasing “underground America”
28
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Nan Goldin, Nan one month after being battered, 1984
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- Diaristic
- Activism toward abuse/domestic violence
- Shows she’smoving on (dress & lipstick)
29
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Piero Manzoni, Merda D’artista (Artist’s Shit), 1961
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- Can of shit
- Critique of art world
- Art because he says its art
- Wanted because he was famous (consumerism)
- Mystery of actual content– increase or decrease the value?
30
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Seurat, Bathers at Asnieres, 1884
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- Shows poor side of river
- Shows industry
- Other half in Chicago
- Beginnings of pointilism
31
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Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888
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- Momento mori, cycle of life and death
- Sunflower’s not dying (different type of flower)
- Textured flowers (not flat)
- Used outline
- Yellow = emblem of happiness
- Sunflower = devotion and loyalty (in Dutch lit)
