Works of Art Flashcards
Artist: Rauschenberg
Title: Signs
Date: 1970
Medium: Screenprint, Paper, Collage-style
Subject: 1960s (MLK assassination, RFK assassination, JFK, Vietnam, Janis Joplin)
Artist: Delacroix, Eugene
Title: Liberty Leading the People
Date: 1830
Medium: Oil Painting
Subject: July Revolution of 1830, topping King Charles X of France.
Woman personifying Liberty, holding flag of the French Revolution
Artist: Messonier
Title: The Barricade in rue Mortellerie
Date: 1848
Medium: Oil paint
Subject: Corpses of Worker/Rioters after their barricade was defeated by National Guard in 1848, France
Location: Salon of 1850, France
Artist: Meissonier
Title: Ruins of the Tuileries
Date: 1871
Location: Paris
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Subject: Paris Commune established by rebelling National Guardsmen, ruins of palace.
Artist: Jean-Pierre Rey
Title: Girl Waving flag in crowd during General Strike, Paris
Date: May 1968
Location: Paris, LIFE magazine may 24th 1968
Medium: Photograph
Subject: General Strike 10 students dead, 1500 injured, workers and leftists.
What is Lettrist or Letterist International?
Collective of artists and theorists based in Paris 1952-57.
Created by Guy Debord
Young, hedonist radicals focused on rejection of religious dogma and rightist politics.
What is Situationist International?
A more politically-minded offshoot of the Lettrists, 1957-1972
What is a Constructed Situation?
Situationist Terminology:
“moment of life directly constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a game of events”
What is a Situationist?
One who engages in the construction of situations.
What is Situationism?
There is no such thing.
To define Situations would distract from being in the “moment”
What is Psychogeography?
The study of the specific effects of the geographical environment…
on the emotions and behavior of individuals
What is Dérive?
“A mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society. “ - Guy Debord
Purposely aberrant behavior.
Deviating from the normal and accepted behavior of society.
A psychogeographical term for an unplanned journey through a landscape in which one’s direction is determined by their subconscious.
What is Unitary Urbanism?
The theory of the combined use of Arts and Technique for the integral construcion of a social environment in dynamic relation with experiments in behavior.
What is Détournement?
hijacking of preexisting aesthetic elements.
The integration of present or past artistic production into a superior construction of a milieu/social evironment/community.
Artist: Duchamp
Title: L.H.O.O.Q. (phonetically in french “there is a fire down below”
Date: 1917
Location: Paris, on loan to MNAM
Medium: readymade, Postcard(mona lisa) with pencil-drawn moustache
Subject: mona lisa with pencil facial hair, gender reversal, possible dadasim/rejecting traditional art.
Artist: Asger Jorn
Title: The Avant-Garde Doesn’t Give Up
Date: 1962
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Medium: Oil Paint on appropriated oil painting
Subject: references to Duchamp, “bringing the work into the present”, appropriation, devalue traditional art
Artist: Asger Jorn
Title: The Worrying Duck (Modification)
Date: 1959
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Medium: Appropriated oil paint
Subject: Celebrating bad painting, “Museums are where Art goes to die”, making art to participate in the here and now, Anti-Commodification of Art.
What is “The Spectacle”
The way the entire society capitulates ceases to resist their enslavement.
Entirely unaware that they enslave themselves
“Images are the most powerful tool”
“The spectacle desensitizes”
“Concrete inversion of life”
“A social relationship between people… mediated by images”
Artist: Asger Jorn
Title: Paris by Night
Date: 1959
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Medium: appropriated oil painting
Subject: Anti-Commodification of Art
Artist: Guy Debord and Asger Jorn
Title: Memoires
Date: 1957
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Medium: screenprint, collage
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Artist: Situationist International
Title: Life Continues To Be Free And Easy
Date: 1959
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Medium: collage, text, postage stamp, hand-colored figures, screenprint
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Artist: Guy Debord
Title: Society of the Spectacle
Date: 1967 (Film: 1973)
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Artist: Atelier Populaire
Title: Return to Normal
Date: 1968
Location: Paris
Medium: Screenprint
Subject: post 1968 protests, society returning to “the spectacle”
Artist: Atelier Populaire
Title: The police post themselves at the School of Fine Arts, the Fine Arts students poster the streets.
Date: May 1968
Location: Paris
Medium: Screenprint
Subject: May 1968 Protests, Student uprising.
Artist: Atelier Populaire
Title: The Fight Continues
Date: May 1968
Location: Paris
Medium: Screenprint
Subject: unifying Students, Artists, and Workers.
What is Nouvelle Vague?
What are its trademark characteristics?
Nouvelle Vague means New Wave filmmaking.
Characterized by Jump Cuts, Hand-held camera shots, breaking the 4th wall(actors addressing the camera/audience), on-location filming(instead of studio filming), a disjointed narrative, frequent or sudden changes in filming style.
What is Mise-en-scène?
“placement of the scene”: everything in front of the camera, the visual setting.
a move toward Film as Art and Social Commentary.
What is Dziga Vertov Group?
Influenced by filmmaker, Dziga Vertov (Man with a movie camera, 1929)
Membership: Jean-Luc Godard, Gorin
Date: 1972
Concepts: Viewer should not be emotionally involved, instead be Critical.
Unidentifiable Visual Objects.
*Tout Va Bien: *First DVG commercial effort.
What is High Modernism?
Art for Art’s sake.
Formalism
Artist: Hamilton, Richard
Title: Just What is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing
Date: 1956
Location: London, This it Tomorrow show, WhiteChapel Art Gallery
Medium: collage
Subject: Consumerism.
Artist: Don McCullin and Peter Hobbs
Title: Painting at a Bomb Site
Date: 1960
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Medium: Photography of Painting in UK bomb site
Subject: 1945 bomb site instead of white cube gallery.
It asks questions more than presents info.
UK is struggling compared to US
…Individualists like Pollock are somewhat repugnant to UK’s collective efforts
What are three differences between *The Typographic Man *and The Graphic Man?
Mechanical vs. Organic
Sequential vs. Simultaneity
Self-Expression vs. Collaboration
What is Hot Media vs. Cool Media
Hot Media requires effort… reading
Cool Media requires almost no effort… Video
What does “*The Medium is the Message” *mean?
From McLuhan.
The creation and utilization of the medium has a greater effect on human culture than HOW the medium is used.
It doesn’t matter if someone uses a light bulb for reading a book, or lighting up a litebrite… it has essentially changed the way humans communicate by it’s existence.
What are the different arguments of Greenberg, Mcluhan, and Debord?
Kitsch is a product of Industry and has produced a Universal Cultural Literacy
Mass media is it’s own product and indication of universal involvement.
The spectacle (mass media) is not a collection of images, but a social relationship among people, that is mediated by images.
What is Cybernetics?
The field of study concerned with communications and control systems in both living organisms and machines.
What was Andy Warhol concerned about with his art?
Circulation
What does Pop Art concern itself with?
Draws our attention to the commodification of Art and Life.
Artist: Rosenquist
Title: F111
Date: 1964-65
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Medium: paint on aluminum
Subject: intersection of Commodification, War, and Art.
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