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33 Cards in this Set
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Robert Rauchenberg
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- combine paintings = assemblage
- grouping different objects together & making a sculpture - really it is like a 3D collage - DADA, Expressionism, and POP Art |
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Pop Art
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- commercial & popular images & themes as subject matter
- Popular culture - movie posters, billboards, magazines - newspaper photographs - advertisements |
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Pop Art
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- common place and familiar subject
- challenges conceptions about the meaning of art |
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Pop Art
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- intentionally depicts the mundane
- commonplace and boring subject matter - lacks personal signature of the artist - keeps the readymade ideas |
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Jasper Johns
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- New York
- Friends with Rauschenberg - numbers, maps, color charts, targets, flags |
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Andy Warhol
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- the best known POP artist
- portraits of celebrities - brillo boxes - coca-cola boxes - campbell's soup cans - contemporary art is boring and bland - He was shot by an actress but recovered |
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Andy Warhol
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- prints were mass produced photographs of ...
- silk screens - public figures of Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennnedy - But mostly a celebrity himself - he claimed the 15 minutes of fame quote |
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The Factory
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- In NYC, entire studio was decorated with silver paint and aluminum foil
- made art and films here with multiple people - His crib - thought of himself as a machine - producing a product he called art |
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Roy Lichtenstein
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- pop artist
- based work on the comic book - enlarge, manipulated frames from comic strips - changed words - hand painted - dot like pattern - like the newspapers |
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conceptual art
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- ideas are the most important
- aesthetics come second - a way of thinking - artist surrendered control - it was not important that they make the work - indebted to Duchamp (his readymades) |
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Joseph Kosuth
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- one and three chairs
- actual chair - picture of a chair - dictionary description of a chair - he assembled, but did not make - challenges to what can be art - liberated from the art object |
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Appropriation
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- recycling old images
- states that images are so widely known and are like a public resource - kind of like the pre-internet revolution - gives things new meaning |
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Nina Katchadourian (Monument to the Unelected)
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- 3 sets
- 2008, Phoenix - Seriously Funny exhibit - 56 signs made for everyone person who ever ran for president and lost - the country's collective political road not taken |
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social protest/affirmation
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- many artist protest injustice with their artwork
- they identify villains, honor heroes, promote causes with emotional and visual impact - protest art is a form of affirmation - it is based on respect for human dignity and the belief that change is possible |
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Mark walling protest signs
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- reconstructed a protest against Iraqi War
- by Brian Haw - included over 600 signs - protest was taken down by British Parliament, because it was said to be a security risk |
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Jermey Deller
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- protest reenactment: Battle of Osgreve
- Battle between Miners and police 1984 |
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Barabra Kruger
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- started as a designer for a Publishing house, and worked for Aperture, Home, and Gardens, and Mademonselle
- IN the 80's Kruger broke out into Art - She created striking paste-ups -Anti corporate, anti-consumerism, pro-feminist chord |
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Ethics
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- a system of moral principles
- the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, or culture |
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Chris Burden
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- Shot himself in the arm and called it art
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Tracey Emin "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With"
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- "1963-1995"
- 102 people - Some she slept with and some she slept next to, like her Grandma when she was sick - with myself, always myself, never forgetting |
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Chris Ofili
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- controversial painting of the Holy Virgin Mary
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Damien Hirst
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- the physical impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
- In Formaldehyde, but replaced in 2006 costed 12 million dollars - Shark was caught in Australia |
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Land Art
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- also called Earth Works
- emerged in the 60s - Ecology movement - changed perception of art - no longer inside a museum - earthworks could not be bought or sold |
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Land Art
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- often done in remote landscapes. Southeast
- not all that accessible to public - relied on photo documentation - many artist had to collaborate with other professional to get their work made |
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Nasca Lines
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- the Nasca people used rudimentary surveying instruments to plot the paths
- the drawings are so large that most can only be seen from the air |
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty
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- 1970
- mud, salt, crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water on the northeastern shore of the coast of the Great Salt lake in Utah - it forms a 1,500 foot-long (460m), 15-foot-wide, (4.6m) counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake which is only visible when the level of the Great Salt Lake falls below an elevation of 4,197 fet |
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Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field
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- 1977
- long-term installation in Western New Mexico - 400 stainless stell post in a grid in a 1 mile by 1km area |
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Christo and Jean Claude
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- husband and wife team that love to wrap things
- used water resistant fabric - they left it up for about 2 weeks - they had many visitors |
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Frank Gehry
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- trained as a sculptor, buildings
- irregular, sculptural, disorienting, asymmetrical, no apparent central point |
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Joern Utzon,
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- Opera House
- Sydney, Australia - 1959-1972 - reinforced concrete 200 feet high - This structure resembles billowing sails, like the ships in the Sydney Harbor |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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- organic architecture
- designed the Solomon R. Guggenheim - New York City, USA design begun in 1943, structure completed in 19-- - this museum resembles a modern, abstract sculpture |
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Fallingwater
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- designed by Frank Lloyd
- House built on top of a creek - Boiphilic Design |
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Boiphilic Design
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- Designing Spaces with Nature in Mind
- The Architecture of Life |
