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26 Cards in this Set
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Dennis Oppenheim
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-fingernail breaking in wood
-chair going inside other chair |
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Kiki Smith
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-installation artist
-depictions of body (hand in jar, bronze womb, male and female parts) -the vulnerable body (bloody limbs severed from bodies) -hanging bodies represent AIDS -pee body (squatted lady with trail of pee behind her) -train (female with red beads falling out of her) -tail (female followed by poop) -virgin mary (with no skin, etc) -deer giving birth to a woman |
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Antony Gormley
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-iron cast body laying on ground (from his plastered body)
-countless terra cotta figurines fill massive rooms (field series) -angels with massive wings -angel of the north |
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David Nash
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-land/environment art
-bent trees to form sphere -waterways -running table (looks like horse/dog) -wooden boulder -charred standing frame -cube, sphere, pyramid -threshold columns -sheep space |
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Beth Galston
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-environmental sculptures (found objects)
-luminous garden -serpentine fence -ice forest -meeting place (circular place made with rocks by her and her students) -tree house (be able to walk around the tree tops) -color walk -thunderbird bridge -light and shadow -light wall |
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Lisa Bufano
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-dance artist (double amputee)
-morphology project (investigate movements in water) -doll-making career -stop-motion videos (first obsession with movements) -popular performances-fancy (wears stilts in some, story-telling) -fancy (stilts that creates the illusion that she has 4 legs) -5 open mouths (reaction to discovery after she had her 5 fingers amputated -one breath is an ocean for a wooden heart (partner dance-her partner is able-bodied) |
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Deborah Butterfield
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-ferdinand
-horse -grazing horse -untitled (laying down made out of mud and sticks) -reclining horse -aluminum horse #5 -palma -rex |
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Newton and Helen Mayer-Harrison
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-survival pieces (what it takes to make good soil/good earth)
-portable pastures/farms (portable fish farm, portable orchard) -endangered meadows (moved it to top of museum) |
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
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-tables and chairs wrapped in cloth and rope
-wall of oil barrells (250 oil barrells) -wrapped coast (1 mill. sq. ft. of erosion resistant fabric) -valley curtain (8,000 lb orange curtain stretch across cables across a canyon) -running fence (24.5 mi) -surrounded islands (surrounded small islands with pink fabric) -blue umbrellas in Japan, smooshed together in a valley -yellow umbrellas in california sprawled out in a valley -the gates (Central Park)-wind blows cloth gates |
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Ron Mueck
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-Shirl's neighborhood
-Pan's labrynth (made puppets for movies) -made props for commercial -pinnocchio (hyper-realist) -dead dad -pregnant woman -mask #2 self-portrait -a girl (giant newborn baby) -plucked chicken |
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Ana Mendieta
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-la siluetas (uses her body print in snow, dirt, etc)
-holding the dead bird naked -flaming body sculpture |
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
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-pop artists
-spoonbridge and cheery -trowel 1 -flashlight -split button -balancing tools -knife ship -free stamp -inverted collar and tie -soft shuttlecock (installed, feathers, etc) -flying pins -clothespin |
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Ursula VonRydingsvard
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-seven mountains (wood laminates and then uses graphite)
-shovels -walls -series of cedar logs with worked texture |
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Dan Flavin
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-flourescent lights
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hue
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the characteristic of color identified by color names, such as red and blue. It corresponds to a particular wavelength within the spectrum of visible light.
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value
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characteristic of color which is the degree of lightness or darkness
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saturation
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characteristic of color that is a measure of the relative purity and brightness or grayness of a color; also called "chroma" or "intesity"
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simultaneous contrast
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the principle that the juxtaposition of two colors exaggerates their differences and reduces their similarities
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local color
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the natural color of an object
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applied color (polychromed)
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color added to a material, concealing or changing its original color (multicolored)
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kinetic art (controlled time)
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works designed to move and perhaps change through time (referring to the movement of works of art through a predetermined sequence of events)
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mobiles (whirligigs)
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hanging sculptures that turn when moved by air currents (can only move in preestablished directions, though the speed of movement will depend on the wind that propels them)
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performance art
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a live experience conducted or set up by the artist
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illusion of movement
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rather than appearing to be a single moment frozen in time, some works enable us to read successive stages of motion as a time sequence
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viewing time
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time it takes to explore the piece
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timelessness (aesthetics)
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-classical appeal: transcend contemporary aesthetic trends to express more universal standards of beauty or truth
-become so fully involved with a work that we forget ourselves, lose track of the passage of time, and experience the vastness of the moment, beyond time. -certain pieces are outside of time in the sense that they do not exist until someone becomes involved with them |
