Test #2 Flashcards
Joseph Beuys
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
1965
Performance
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty
1970
basalt, limestone
Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #35
1979
Gelatin Silverprint
Judy Chicago
The Dinner Party
1979
Multimedia
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay
1980
Pink Fabric
Robert Mapplethorpe
Self Portrait
1980
Silver Gelatin Print
Maya Lin
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1981
granite
Barbara Kruger
Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face)
1981
Photograph
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Horn Players
1983
acrylic & crayon on canvas
Julian Schnabel
The Walk Home
1984
oil, plates, copper, bronze, fiberglass, & bondo on wood
Jeff Koons
Pink Panther
1988
Porcelain
Adrian Piper
Cornered
1988
Mixed-media installation of variable size; video monitor, table, & birth certificates
Keith Haring
Tuttomundo
1989
Spray paint
Carrie Mae Weems
Man Smoking/Malcom X
1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Kiki Smith
Untitled
1990
Beeswax & microcrystalline wax on metal stands
William Kentridge
Felix in Exile
1994
Charcoal on Paper
Bill Viola
The Crossing
1996
Video/sound installation with 2 channels of color projected onto screens 16’ high
Tara Donovan
Untitled
2003
Styrofoam Cups & Hot Glue
The Yes Men
Dow Does the Right Thing
2004
Ai WeiWei
Sunflower Seeds
2010
Painted Porcelain
The name American arist Miriam Schapiro gave to her sewn collages, assembled from fabrics, quilts, buttons, sequins, lace trim, and rickrack collected at antique shows and fairs.
Femmages
The name American artist Robert Rauschenberg gave to assemblages of painted passages and sculptural elements.
Combines
A painting techinique in which pigment is mixed with melted wax and applied to the surface while the mixture is hot. Jasper Johns employed the use of this in his piece, Flag.
Encaustic
An industrial printing technique that creates a sharp-edged image pressing ink through a design on silk or similar tightly woven porous fabric stretched tight on a frame. Andy Warhol heavily used this method.
Silk-screen Printing
A predominantly sculptural American trend of the 1960s characterized by works featuring a severe reduction of form, often to single, homogeneous units.
David Smith, Tony Smith, Donald Judd
Minimalism
began in the 1960s and flourished throughout the 1970s
art that reflects women’s lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary art. It also sought to bring more visibility to women within art history and art practice.
Judy Chicago, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Ana Mendieta
Feminist Art
An American avant-garde art trend of the 1960s that made an integral element of art. It produced works in which movements, gestures, and sounds of persons communicating with an audience replace physical objects. Documentary photographs are generally the only evidence remaining after these events.
Carolee Schneeman, Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic
Performance Art
A term coined by Allan Kaprow in the 1960s to describe loosely structured performances, whose creators were trying to suggest the aesthetic and dynamic qualities of everyday life; as actions, rather than objects, these incorporate the fourth dimension (time).
Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg
Happenings
A group of American, European, and Japanese artists of the 1960s who created Performance Art. Their performances, or Events, often focused on single actions, such as turning a light on and off or watching falling snow, and were more theatrical than Happenings
Kazuo Shiraga, Joseph Beuys, Nam Jun Paik
Fluxus
Art created for a specific location
Site-specific Art
An American art form that emerged in the 1960s. Often using the land itself as their material, these artists construct monuments of great scale and minimal form. Permanent or impermanent, these works transform some section of the environment, calling attention both to the land itself and to the hand of the artist. Sometimes referred to as earthworks.
Robert Smithson, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Environmental Art
An Americanavant-garde art movement of the 1960s whose premise was that the “artfulness” of art lay in the artist’s idea rather than its final expression.
Joseph Kosuth, Bruce Nauman
Conceptual Art
A reaction against modernist formalism, seen as elitist. Far more encompassing and accepting than the more rigid confines of modernist practice, postmodernism offers something for everyone by accomodating a wide range of styles, subjects, and formats, from traditional easel painting to installation and from abstraction to illusionistic scenes. Postmodern art often includes irony or reveals a self-conscious awareness on the part of the artist of art-making processes or the workings of the art world.
Postmodernism
An analytical strategy developed in the late 20th century according to which all cultural “constructs” (art, architecture, literature) are “texts.” People can read these texts in a variety of ways, but they cannot arrive at fixed or uniform meanings. Any interpretation can be valid, and readings differ from time to time, place to place, and person to person. For those employing this approach, deconstruction means destabilizing established meanings and interpretations while encouraging subjectivity and individual differences.
Deconstruction
A term coined by British art critic Lawrence Alloway to refer to art, first appearing in the late 1950s, that incorporated elements from consumer culture, the mass media, and popular culture, such as images from motion pictures and advertising.
Pop Art
