Test One Flashcards

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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MARY ELLEN MARK Jesse with his Dog Gelatin silver print Artist as social critic Asking viewer to question society Formal design elements

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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

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PAUL McCARTHY Blockhead Blueprint Studies for Blockhead Instructions for commerical fabricators Example of artist whose practice crosses boundaries and includes sculpture, installation, small scale architecture, drawing and perfomance art

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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KIKI SMITH Ribs Clay/ink/thread/nails Fragmentation Abstraction Not hiding structure in this raw presentation

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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

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MIKE AND DOUG STARN (STARN TWINS) Whitney Museum, NYC Temp Installation Collaboration Non-archival taped layers Purposely distressed surfaces of photos, scratching with tools Approprition of Renaissance painting of Dead Christ in framed photo

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The artist has moved away from reference to the object, perhaps asserting the idea of a painting, for example, as object-in-its-own- right, something made of canvas & paint, not some window on Reality Out There. Non-objective sculpture would be 3d art which explores form without reference to or illustration of a figure, not intending to be read as cat or whatever, just pure form for its own sake.

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The creation of elements used in the piece

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The use of pre-existing objects

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Art with moving elements

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Highly realistic/representational (includes photorealism)