Katie Miller
ARHT 106
12/20/2017
Final Exam
5. Who or what are the Guerilla Girls? What theoretical or philosophical point-of-view do they champion? Choose one piece associated with them and describe its form, content, and context. The “Guerrilla Girls” is an anonymous group of female artists that fight racism and sexism in the art world. The anonymous group was started in New York City in 1985 by a group of seven women after a modern art exhibit whose rosters of 165 artists included only 13 women. They broadcast their messages of gender and racial equality through posters, books, billboards and public events. These posters and billboards pushed ideas and make people uncomfortable, which I believe was there plan all along. To get people talking …show more content…
This poster is believed to be a shift in the Guerrilla movement because although it was commissioned by the “Public Art Fund”, when they received it, they believed that the nudity of the woman was not inappropriate, but the handle on the fan she was holding was. After being rejected, they tried to rent out the advertisements on the side of buses in New York City, but because of the nudity of the woman, it was rejected.
3. To whom is the statement “A work needs only to be interesting.” attributed? Of which movement is this ethos representative, and how did the idea manifest in artworks? Which major events or publications may have signaled this change in artistic thought?
“A work needs only to be interesting” was spoken by Donald Judd. Judd was an American minimalism artist. Complexity is key when it comes to making three dimensional sculptures. , and these are not scattered but asserted by one form. In the end of this idea it’s important to note that it’s not about a multiple of things in a piece making the thing, its quality of that thing that is interesting. And in the end, it takes one thing to make them beautiful. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful. Minimal sculpture is made extremely simple, into geometric forms made of fiber glass, plastic, sheet metal. Like the painters, Minimalist sculptors attempted to make …show more content…
How would you best characterize the differences between Modern Art and Postmodern Art? What time-periods do they represent, and who are the major artists or thinkers associated with each? Chose a work that you think best shows Modernism and a work that best shows Postmodernism and compare and contrast the two.
Modernism is series of cultural movements that took place in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. These movements include reforming movements in architecture, art, music, literature, and applied arts. Modernism believed in learning from the experiences of the past. There was a great input of logic in the thinking of the period of modernism. Artists in the modernism period searched for the meaning of life. Modernism art pieces are very shape oriented, or very abstract in a way. In all sculptures and paintings, it is very clear that shapes and vibrant colors is a common
ARHT 106
12/20/2017
Final Exam
5. Who or what are the Guerilla Girls? What theoretical or philosophical point-of-view do they champion? Choose one piece associated with them and describe its form, content, and context. The “Guerrilla Girls” is an anonymous group of female artists that fight racism and sexism in the art world. The anonymous group was started in New York City in 1985 by a group of seven women after a modern art exhibit whose rosters of 165 artists included only 13 women. They broadcast their messages of gender and racial equality through posters, books, billboards and public events. These posters and billboards pushed ideas and make people uncomfortable, which I believe was there plan all along. To get people talking …show more content…
This poster is believed to be a shift in the Guerrilla movement because although it was commissioned by the “Public Art Fund”, when they received it, they believed that the nudity of the woman was not inappropriate, but the handle on the fan she was holding was. After being rejected, they tried to rent out the advertisements on the side of buses in New York City, but because of the nudity of the woman, it was rejected.
3. To whom is the statement “A work needs only to be interesting.” attributed? Of which movement is this ethos representative, and how did the idea manifest in artworks? Which major events or publications may have signaled this change in artistic thought?
“A work needs only to be interesting” was spoken by Donald Judd. Judd was an American minimalism artist. Complexity is key when it comes to making three dimensional sculptures. , and these are not scattered but asserted by one form. In the end of this idea it’s important to note that it’s not about a multiple of things in a piece making the thing, its quality of that thing that is interesting. And in the end, it takes one thing to make them beautiful. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful. Minimal sculpture is made extremely simple, into geometric forms made of fiber glass, plastic, sheet metal. Like the painters, Minimalist sculptors attempted to make …show more content…
How would you best characterize the differences between Modern Art and Postmodern Art? What time-periods do they represent, and who are the major artists or thinkers associated with each? Chose a work that you think best shows Modernism and a work that best shows Postmodernism and compare and contrast the two.
Modernism is series of cultural movements that took place in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. These movements include reforming movements in architecture, art, music, literature, and applied arts. Modernism believed in learning from the experiences of the past. There was a great input of logic in the thinking of the period of modernism. Artists in the modernism period searched for the meaning of life. Modernism art pieces are very shape oriented, or very abstract in a way. In all sculptures and paintings, it is very clear that shapes and vibrant colors is a common