Test One Flashcards
Picture Plane
The window through which artist in fixed position views the 3D object. When talking about picture plane you are taking about the 2d work. It’s the canvas or ground on which the artist paints or draws.
Figurative Abstraction
Figure; simplified
LAYLAH ALI simple Hard edge Figurative abstraction Artists book Gouache (opaque watercolor)
LAYLAH ALI artists book Small History of race in US Authority figures are viewed with suspicion
EL ANATSUI
Awu
Aluminum liquor bottle caps and copper wire
Patterns recall traditional African woven cloth designs
Born in Ghana
Found object
Artist depends on assistants to make these large scale works
TINA BARNEY
Series of color photos by photographer acting as kind of anthropologist, documenting her upper middle class ‘tribe’
Psychologial portraiture
Forms a narrative
TINA BARNEY
From series of portraits of father/daughter at various ages in the same place
Subjects captured in natural habitat
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
Theatre d’Ombres
Installation
Simple fabricated cut-out puppets
Slide projection and fan
Light as an alternative medium
Kinetic art
Folk art influence
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
Personnes
Temporary installation
Found object (clothing)
at Grand Palais, Paris 2010
From series on the Holocaust
JONATHAN BOROFSKY
Hammerin Men
Steel
1982
Installation
Also exhibited as solo sculptures
Kinetic
Figurative Abstraction
Works explore: What does it mean to be a worker? A man in today’s world?
Tracks sequence of art making history by prominently labeling the surface of every piece with a number
CAI GUO-QIANG
Head On
Installation
Glass wall & 99 life size replicas of wolves fabricated from paper mache, plaster, fiberglass, resin and painted (found material) goat hides
Illusion of movement
Pattern
Visual metaphor
CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE
Wrapped Reichstag (Parliament Bldg Berlin)
1971-1995
Temporary installation
Polypropylene fabric with aluminum surface and blue rope
Collaboration between the two with large number of assisstants
CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE
Running Fence
Temporary Installation
1976
Veiled fence 24 miles long
extending across hills of Califonia ending in Pacific Ocean
Porposals to landowners, political authorities, etc in years-long process required to recieve permissions
SUE COE
Modern Man confronted by the Ghosts of his Meat
1990
UK artist
Mixed Media on paper
From ongoing series critiquing the meat industry
WALTER DeMARIA
The Lightning Field
Stainless steel poles over 1 mile x 3300 ft expanse
New Mexico
1971-77
Site specific (ongoing) installation
Could fall loosely into Earthwork (land art)
Artist as god-like hero
Lightning and landscape considered as part of media and process
Such experiments resist notion of art as commodity
WALTON FORD
Fallen Bough
watercolor/Gouache/ink/pencil
Known for draftsmenship & traditional notions of beauty in large scale works
Influenced by 19th century artist James Audubon
enviormental concerns
Piece laments extinction of Passenger Pigeon
LUCIAN FREUD
Reflection (self-portriat)
oil on canvas
1985
Infulential UK artist
Grandson of Sigmund Freud
ROBERT GOBER
untitled (leg)
Mix of fabricated and found object
Fragmentation as trend in contemporary art’s treatment of the body
Humor
ROBERT GOBER
Beeswax, pigment & human hair
1990
Trends in contemporary art onsideration of the body evident here including:
Fragmentation
Anti-heroicism
Anti-Romanticism
Fluidity of gender and identity
Ric at Restaurant photo
NAN GOLDIN
Ric at Restaurant, NYC
Cibachrome photo
Body of work documenting a particular slice of contemporary society
Artist chronicled lives of her circle
Specific characters and moods captured in her photo series
NAN GOLDIN
Nan, One Month After Being Battered
Cibachrome photo
1984
Self portriat
Artist boldly confronts viewer with title providing narrative
Influential early series, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
MICHAEL HEIZER
Double Negative
Mormon Mesa, Nevada
2 removals of earth
Sculptural approach to landscape
Works on heroic scale
Land art
Alternative tools: earthmovers
DAMIEN HIRST
Spot Mini
Found object (auto with vinyl graphics)
Prominent member of Young British Artists group who dominated the art scene end of 20th century
Pattern, applied to found object
Part of series using same pattern on non-objective paintings and prints on conventional surfaces
Assistants make possible large scale projects in assorted media with artist providing concept and approval but being hands-off in execution
JENNY HOLZER
From the Truisms series
Temporary installation in Times Square
Electronic signage
Artist employs commercial process
Known for evocative us of text open to interpretation
Installation art moving out of gallery to the street to find an audience
Taking lessons from advertising and using a large scale to gain attention
JENNY HOLZER
Living Series
enamel on metal
Artist uses commercial signpainters
Small work posted in various urban locations (w/o artist permission)
Works feature text, often with social commentary
Artist as citizen, as scold
BARBARA KRUGER
Your body is a battleground
Uses commerical processes (adhesives/text)
Feminist artist takes political stance in much of her work, rejecting notion of art and politics as being seperate realms
BARBARA KRUGER
It’s a Small World (but Not When You Have to Clean It)
Temporary large scale installation
Takes art out of gallery and onto the street
Artist as social critic
Artist has been influenced by and become an influence on contemporary graphic design
MAYA LIN
Water Line
Aluminum tubing, paint
Installation
2006
Example of categories breaking down in contemporary art: architect who does sculpture
Industrial material
The grib (manipulated here)
MAYA LIN
Blue Lake Pass
Particleboard
2006
Pattern
Abstraction
The Grid
Yale Student who won competition to design Vietnam War Memorial in DC
Controversial design only later embraced by vets and others
ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE
Thomas
Gelatin silver print
Staged photo
Artist influenced by classical notions of beauty and classical art itself
Visual quote of Myron’s The Discus Thrower
Influential gay artist lauding the male form
Many of his models were part of his circle
Titles each work in the series with the model’s name
Deceased
MARY ELLEN MARK
Laurie in the Ward 81 Tub, Oregon State Hospital
Gelatin silver print
From the Confinement Series (portriats of institutionalized women)
Artist as activist, as witness, a chronicler of her times who spotlights the plight of the disadvantaged in society
Privacy concerns
Deceased
MARY ELLEN MARK
Jesse with his Dog
Gelatin silver print
Artist as social critic
Asking viewer to question society
Formal design elements
PAUL McCARTHY
Blockhead
Inflatable, large scale outdoor sculpture
Figurative Abstraction
Appropriation (of disney character pinocchio)
Irreverent artist
Studied at the U
converts pop subject matter in his work which uses diverse media and processes
EDWARD RUSCHA
Those of Us Who Have Double Parked
Pastel on paper
Illusionism (re:lighting)
Challanges the flat treatment of the picture plane
California artist fequently presents apparently nonsensical phrases open to interpretation
Mines pop culture (re: typography)
CINDY SHERMAN
Two separte staged works in which she serves as director, actor, stylist and photographer
Crosses boundaries between photo and performance art
Plays with fluid notion of history, gender, personality and identity
Influenced by art history, theater, gender studies
CINDY SHERMAN
Untitled (No. 476)
Color photograph
2008
In experiments that began while an art student, she adopts various personae in setting up her photos
Questions issues of identity and class
KIKI SMITH
Wax figures on metal stands
Anti-heroic
anti-romantic
psychologial content drives much of contemporary art
Her studio practice contains diverse 2d and 3d media and processes
KIKI SMITH
Ribs
Clay/ink/thread/nails
Fragmentation
Abstraction
Not hiding structure in this raw presentation
ROBERT SMITHSON
Spiral Jetty
Basalt/salt crystal
Land art/earthwork
Great Salt Lake
Site-specific; appearance varies greatly with water level
Questions art as a commodity
Artist as hero
Alternative processes; earthmovers
MIKE AND DOUG STARN (STARN TWINS)
Big Bambu
Temp Installation
Roof of the Met
Alternative materials
Cross over to architecture
Climbers hired to construct the piece out of bamboo and bungee cords
Twins shard created and credit for work
JAMES TURRELL
Roden Crater
near Sedona AZ
View of east portal entryway to crater
Crosses genres: Sculpture and architecture and land art
Use of light, including moonlight
JAMES TURRELL
Roden Crater
SW view of cinder cone volcano artist purchased before setting out decades long ongoing project
Pristine interior spaces within crater
Heroic god like scale
Lit by day and starlight
KARA WALKER
Darkytown Rebellion
Cut paper/adhesive/projections
Installation
Figurative abstraction
Has both influenced and been influenced by projection and lighitng from theater set design
Silhouette a tradionally “sweet” nostalgic cut paper folk genre appropriated by African American artist. She uses it to tackle history of slavery and race in America
KARA WALKER
A Subtley or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
Site specific
Temp large scale sculpture
Sugar over polystyrene foam
Alternative media
2014
Created onsite in the old Domino Sugar Factory
Critique of history of slave plantation workers who provided processed sugar to the Americas and Europe
Largest of a group of figures
Central piece of the installation
Smaller chocolate and molasses figures surround it
