Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
77 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
culture wars |
a struggle between two or more sets of conflicting cultural values i.e. In America, conservative vs. liberal |
|
|
Robert Mapplethorpe |
|
|
- Robert Mapplethorpe photo of Louise Bourgeois - he wanted to "challenge and adhere to classical standards" |
|
|
"Piss Christ" - Andres Serrano - late 1900s (1980s) |
|
|
"Morgue Series" - Andres Serrano - late 1900s - loss of identity - makes us think of the absence of a person in their own body |
|
|
"Klan Series" - photographs of the Klu Klux Klan - makes us uncomfortable - we think about the nature of hate |
|
|
Karen Finley - performance artist |
|
|
NEA Four |
Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, John Fleck - grants lost due to controversial art - sued Frohnmater, the NEA chairman - this lawsuit began the culture wars - after this, the NEA had to stop giving out individual artist grants |
|
|
NEA |
National Endowment for the Arts |
|
|
McCarthyism |
- political public accusations of disloyalty with a lack of evidence - Joseph McCarthy - national witch hunt for communists - 205 people on his so-called list |
|
|
- Judy Chicago - "The Dinner Party" - 1970s - vaginas on a dinner table - provocative - collaborative work by woman artists who without a voice - women in myth, legend, history on the work - female genitalia because their bio. sex connected them |
|
|
Masks |
- used for funerals - symbolic - animism |
|
|
Yoruba |
Benin culture - the heads carved out with lines of cardboard - 1800s - based on observation - naturalism |
|
|
- "The Judgement of Paris" - Saliger - 1930s - Nazi-approved art - ridiculous because it is mainly about aestheticism and looking good - the ideal - doesn't push rebellion or further thinking--Hitler thought it should imitate Greek, which is not avant-garde - reinforcing of the master race, the ideal man |
|
|
"Birdman" - Christian Schad - perverse version of what a nation should look like - counteracts the perfect man in "The Judgement of Paris" |
|
|
Paul Klee - roughly WWII - children's art - when the Age of Reason failed - deliberately crude |
|
|
installation art |
- when you use regular objects from daily life in new contexts |
|
|
Ways that Artists Looked for Essence |
- mentally ill art - untaught artists' art - nature - primitive art - children's art - the unconscious - Sigmund Freud - rejects imitation of nature (Greek ideal) for truth to get to a higher state |
|
|
Kandinski |
- founded the Blue Rider (w/ Franz Marc) - wanted to use purely color to express himself |
|
|
Max Beckmann |
- humanist - self-portrait with small infantry horn |
|
|
- NEA Four + Degenerate Art Show |
- connection: the world is changing rapidly |
|
|
- Louise Bourgeois - 20th century modernist - "Maman Series" stand in for female and motherhood |
|
|
- Louise Bourgeois - 20th century modernist - male and female - biomorphic abstraction |
|
|
- Louise Bourgeois - 20th century modernist - "Cells" - installation art |
|
|
- Louise Bourgeois - 20th century modernist - addresses woman's lack of agency |
|
|
- Robert Smithson - "Spiral Jetty" - same spiral repeats over and over in nature - DNA, space, seashells, etc. - modernism - nature as a source to get to a higher state |
|
|
- Polykleitos (author of the canon that was trying to get as close to the ideal as possible) - 450 B.C. |
|
|
- Michelangelo 1500 A.D. - Vitruvian Man Man - Vitruvius |
|
|
- Walter Demaria "Lightning Field" - steel poles part of art - new element - lightning - similar to Magdelena Abakanowitcz because all the poles of level - elements of minimalism - earth art |
|
|
ephemeral |
temporary |
|
|
- Michael Heizer - new materials - minimalism - actually a sculpture |
|
|
minimalism |
- art movement that stripped elements down further and further - trying to get to essence of it --looks at paleolithic art |
|
|
- Michael Heizer - "Ox Bow" |
|
|
- Andy Goldsworthy - ephemeral - uses time and nature as his medium |
|
|
- Andy Goldsworthy - earth artist? - ephemeral - uses time and nature as his medium |
|
|
- Andy Goldsworthy - ephemeral - uses time and nature as his medium - minimalist |
|
|
- Andy Goldsworthy - ephemeral - uses time and nature as his medium |
|
|
- Ana Mendieta - uses nature like these men - reclaiming of symbols |
|
|
Ana Mendieta + Jenny Saville |
- both deal with a woman's point of view - fertility figures created by women? A woman's perspective? (i.e. Venus of Wilendorf but not) |
|
|
male gaze |
phrase used to describe how women are defined by men |
|
|
eugenics |
- misuse of Darwin's Origin of Species and Theory of Evolution - movement that claimed selective breeding and sterilization improved genetics - originally started in United States before Germany |
|
|
empiricism |
scientific method, proving based on experience |
|
|
hypothesis |
educated guess |
|
|
theory |
validated hypothesis |
|
|
social Darwinism |
justified social inequality, called themselves more fit and thus were successful - to the point of |
|
|
Untermenscch
|
- sub-human - term used to describe those who did not fit with the Nazi "ideal" - treated as inferiors |
|
|
Herrenvolk
|
- super human
|
|
|
temporal
|
- relating to time - OR relating to worldly versus spiritual affairs |
|
|
facism
|
a form of radical authoritarian nationalism [ELABORATE]
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization |
|
|
communism
|
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
|
|
|
The Sublime
|
- a transient experience with beauty
- ties into existentialism because of the responsibility of creating - striving to do things that exceed the daily experience - transcendence: beauty as an antidote |
|
|
biomorphic abstraction |
models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms
- life shapes |
|
|
Pope Innocent X + Francis Bacon's Screaming Popes
|
the former is a symbol of surety in faith - the latter has had his foundations shaken |
|
|
Existentialism + WWII Bombings + Holocaust + Spiritual Certainty
|
- post war view of world
|
|
|
Brancusi
|
thought tribalism got to the essence of things
|
|
|
Bauhaus
|
- House of Building - Utopian - wanted to subvert geometric shapes and lines - thought organics were best - gathered architects, designers, and craftmakers in an effort toward collaboration - contrasted Durer's assertion that artists were not builders - wanted to make ordinary objects extraordinary |
|
|
"Coffee and Tea Service" - Marianna Brandt - 1920s - part of the Bauhaus |
|
|
utopia
|
- a perfect society
- often leads to a dystopia - Hitler's utopian world led to the killing of the Untermensch |
|
|
dystopia
|
a bad society (where there is usually a totalitarian rule)
|
|
|
"The Migration Series" - Jacob Lawrence
- showed African American history - What does it mean to be modern and African American? - Harlem Reneaissance |
|
|
Harlem Renessance |
- end ot WWI to 1930s - cultural, social, and artistic explosion of different talents |
|
|
- Max Beckmann - Late 20th century |
|
|
Christian Schad |
|
|
- George Grosz |
|
|
Red Scare |
is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism |
|
|
Carl Jung |
|
|
archetype |
universally held idea |
|
|
- Nuremberg Rallies - Nazi Party - Albert Spear - designed deliberately to promote nationalism (for HItler) |
|
|
- James Turrell - an earth artist but does not create earth art - works with light |
|
|
- James Turrell - an earth artist but does not create earth art - works with light - strving for transcendence and the sublime? |
|
|
- James Turrell - an earth artist but does not create earth art - works with light - strving for transcendence and the sublime? |
|
|
- Romare Bearden - What does it mean to be an African American modern artist? What does African American Art look like? - he uses collage - not cubism - Harlem Reneassance - life on the street - important to him |
|
|
- Yoruba Heads |
|
|
abstraction |
- to distill a form, to simplify it |
|
|
Ana Mendieta + Andres Serrano |
- both Santeria - cut off chicken heads - both use body fluids |
|
|
Milan Kundera + Kitsch |
- relates kitsch to political totalitarianism - ignoring all the bad - kissing babies - overly sentimental and dramatic - no individualism, doubt, or irony allowed because it subverts the image that everything it perfect |
|
|
Ways Artists Looked For Essence |
- mentally ill art - untaught artists art - nature - primitive art - children's art - the unconscious (Sigmund Freud) |
