Art After 1940 - Test 2

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Marcel Duchamp

"Fountain"

1917

USA

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Ellsworth Kelly

"Colors for a Large Wall"

1951

USA

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Kenneth Noland

"Whirl"

1960

USA

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Helen Frankenthaler

"Mountains and Sea"

1952

USA

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Ad Reinhardt

"Abstract Painting, No. 5"

1962

USA

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Frank Stella

"Die Fahne Hoch!"

1959

USA

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Frank Stella

"Avicenna"

1960

USA

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Bridget Riley

"Loss"

1964

England

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Simone Forti

"Slant Board"

1960-1

USA

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Robert Morris

Green Gallery Exhibition

1964

USA

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Donald Judd,

"Untitled" (at Hirschorn)

1963

USA

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Dan Flavin

"The Nominal Three (to William of Ockham)"

1963

USA

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Richard Serra

"Stacked Steel Slabs"

1969

USA

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Richard Serra

"Splashing Lead"

1969

USA

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Eva Hess

"Hang Up"

1965

USA

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Yayoi Kusama

Self Portrait Collage with Accumulation Couch and Infinity Net

1963

Japanese Artist working in USA

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Sol LeWitt

"Open Cube/Corner Piece"

1965

USA

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Robert Morris

"Document" or "Statement of Aesthetic Withdrawl"

1963

USA

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Robert Morris

"Litanies"

1963

USA

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Lawrence Weiner

"One Quart Exterior Green Industrial Enamel Thrown on a Brick Wall" from the Statements series

1968

USA

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John Baldessari

"This is Not to be Looked At"

1966-1968

USA

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Robert Smithson

"Monuments of the Passaic"

1967

USA

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Robert Smithson

"Spiral Jetty"

1970

USA

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talking about shoes for as long as you want

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Alison Knowles

"Shoes of Your Choice"

1963

USA

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Yoko Ono

"Cut Piece"

1964

Japanese working in USA

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Joseph Beuys

"Explaining Pictures to a Dead Hare"

1965

Germany

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Readymade

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ordinary manufactured objects that the artist selected and modified.

By simply choosing the object (or objects) and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the Found object became art.

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Deductive Structure

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painting is only about itself.

discovery of the center.

looking at its own boundary.

painting with a central focus.

ex: "Bend Sinister" by Kenneth Nolan

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Post-Painterly Abstraction

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Clement Greenberg created this movement as a rebuttal to art.

anti-impasto.

ex: "Mountains and Sea" by Helen Frankenthaler

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Kitsch

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low-brow style of mass-produced art or design using popular or cultural icons.

considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.

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Opticality

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painting that exists for sight.

has a depth, but not a literal depth. the depth is through flatness.

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Op

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art that is an optical illusion for the eye.

appealing to the masses (fun).

don't have to have taste to appreciate it.

LSD culture, advertising, printed on clothes.

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The Responsive Eye

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an Op Art exhibition at the MoMA that featured more than 120 paintings and constructions from 99 artists - 1965

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Minimalism

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art movement that starts with performances.

how objects relate to space in the room

ex: Simone Forti, Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin

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Specific Object

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Donald Judd's works he considered "Specific Objects" rather than sculptures.

These were “specific” because the artist carefully orchestrated their shape, scale, proportions, and materiality.

And they were “objects” because they were fabricated — rather than sculpted — by the artist.

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Gestalt

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psychology term which means "unified whole".

theories of visual perception.

attempt to describe how people organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes when certain principles are applied.

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Seriality

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when a work of art is in a series or sequence or apart of a group that has a series or sequence.

ex: Dan Flavin's "The Nominal Three (to Willian of Ockham)"

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Post-Minimalism

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work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism.

Body art, Performance, Process art, Site-Specific art, and aspects of Conceptual art.

ex: Richard Serra, Robert Morris, Eva Hesse

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Document

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attesting to arts existence through a document, certificate, letter, photograph, etc.

the document is a work of art in itself.

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Conceptualism

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barely able to see it (not interested in beauty/color).

just enough to get the idea.

simplicity.

meant to be thought about.

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Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing

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certificate/concept (he never actually made it).

document is the piece of art.

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Land Art

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art that engages with land or specific site

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Site Specificity

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a work of art designed specifically for a particular location and that has an interrelationship with the location.

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Fluxus

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art movement known for experimental contributions to different artistic media and disciplines.

ex: George Maciunas, George Breant, Yoko Ono

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Event Score

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minimal performances to highlight their perceived connections between everyday objects and art (Fluxus Movement)