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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates was temporary because
It was representing childhood.
What Was a short period of time you went through in your life?
The Gates by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, was funded by?
Themselves
They had no help from New York City.
The Gates were the first and only piece made by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. True or False?
False. They made several other pieces that had to do with the environment and pathways.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates was placed in
New York City's central park
A park

Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin

Why did Maya Lin use names instead of photos?
Because names can recall everting about that person while a photo only remembers one point in time.
What does a name do that a photo can't?
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Was the ________ of its kind
First
There had never been one since
How did the Vietnam Veterans Memorial create two worlds, one we are in and one we can not enter.
By having the granite highly polished so that it is reflective.
Why did she chose this medium?
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin uses the _____ in the piece in order to show meaning.
Viewer
Why is it reflective?
Cutting into the earth with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial shows the viewer___
A wound that must heal over time.
What is a cut on our body?

Basquiat, Horn Players

What 2 musical artist are shown in Basquiat, Horn Players?
Saxophonist Charlie Parker and the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

Jazz musicians improved music that was meaning less shown in pieces like the ______
Basquiat, Horn Players

Basquiat Was names the Black _____ because of his abstract faces and body forms.
Picasso

Basquiat started out doing what kind of medium before he worked on panels?
Graffiti
He started on trains.

Song Su-Nam, Summer Trees

The Summer Trees still hold tradition while also being____
Abstract
The trees are____
The Song Su-Nam, Summer Trees has how many different versions?
3

What movement did Song Su-Nam be apart of in Korea at the time of the Summer trees?
Oriental Ink Movement
What was the medium?
The trees in the Summer Trees could be a symbol of
Friendship


Magdalena Abakanowicz, Androgyne III

What war did Magdalena Abakanowicz go through as a child to make Androgye III?
World War II

Why did Magdalena Abakanowiz use fabric for most of her pieces?
Her studio wasn't very big, so she needed something that can be stored way in a small place.
What makes fabric different then other materials?
Most of her pieces are _____ showing only one side of them, and also not giving them a gender.
Hollow


A Book from the Sky, Xu Bing

A Book from the Sky, Xu Bing was made with movable ____ that he hand made
blocks
He did not write each by hand.
The Book from the Sky, Xu Bing is made into a ______ scene
Sea
Water
The Book from the Sky, Xu Bing started at a young age with _____ as his medium
Propaganda

Which is a possible interpretation of Xu Bing's Book of the Sky?
Truth and meaning are not always found in words.


Jeff Koons, Pink Panther

What is kitsch?
Kitsch, refers to mass-produced imagery designed to please the broadest possible audience with objects of questionable taste

Jeff Koons, Pink Panther depicts which female star?
Jayne Mansfield
Not Marilyn Monroe
The Pink Panther is part of the Postmodern period that showed an evil side of the _____
public and popular culture


Cindy Sherman, Untitled #228 from the History Portraits series

What image is Cindy Sherman trying to copy in the Untitled #228 from the History Portraits series?
Cristofano Allori, Judith with the Head of Holofernes

The Untitled #228 from the History portraits makes the viewer feel what?
Unsettled anxiety

The Untitled #228 from the History portraits series is a recreation of what kind of story?
Bible Story of Judith

Is the Cindy Sherman, Untitled #228 from the History Portraits series made to look like the original?
No, She is wearing cheaper clothes, holding a Halloween type mask, and the head looks happy instead of horifying


Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre

Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre was a series of how many?
12

The Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre series made a fictional story, True or False
True

Ringgold who made Dancing at the Louvre made her peices to show her own ______
Struggles


Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People),

Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People) was made in response3 to what event?
500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in North America in 1992
Anniversary of ______
Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People) Highlights what disturbing part of trading with Indians in the 1600's?
They didn't give them reasonable items for their products.
They eventually traded little to nothing for only their land
The layers of images and news paper suggests what in Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People),
The layers of history and complexity
Over the years things can get laid over to show a new image.
The color red is special in Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People), because it means ______
Heritage along with anger, warfare, and sacrifice


Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation,

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, who made Earth’s Creation, was recognized when she was of what age?
80
She was not young
Emily Kame Kngwarreye work as what before she started her paintings such as Earth's Creation?
Tending to cattle and sheep
She was forced to be a "pastoral"
Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Earth’s Creation, is a reprentation of the "_________" after a period of heavy rains
Green time


Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, Women of Allah series

In Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, Women of Allah series she wants you to_____
Look beyond the surface, and see the more complex and paradoxical reality
Not only seeing a Muslim Women.
Each of Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, Women of Allah series their are 4 symbols which are?
The veil, the gun, the text and the gaze
How they look, what they hold, their language, and their look.
The impact of Rebellious Silence, Women of Allah series is to defeat a common _____ of Muslims
Stereotype


Pepón Osorio, En la barbaria no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop)

Pepón Osorio, En la barbaria no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) was made as a _______
Recreation of a place he first got his hair cut.

The Pepón Osorio, En la barbaria no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) challenges the Latinos community, and its ______
Masculinity
They had symbols like symbols like barber chairs, car seats, sports paraphernalia, depictions of sperm and a boy’s circumcision, phallic symbols, and male action figurines
Pepón Osorio, En la barbaria no se llora (No Crying Allowed in the Barbershop) Was made in_____ which has a lot of pressure on men to be masulin.
Puerto Rico
The United states owns this, and they have taxes, but they keep their own culture alive.

Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)

Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) Is made out of what kind of cans?
Corned Beef
Its in the name
Michel Tuffery, Who made Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) Did not _____ untill he was 6. They instead had him express him self in drawing.
Read, write, or speak.

Pisupo, which is in the name of the piece Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) is the Samoan language meaning ________ which was the frist canned food that was introduced in the Pacific Islands
Pea Soup

Corned Beef is a large part of the peoples life on the Pacific Islands which contributes to their ________. That is why Michel Tuffery used their cans in his piece.
diabetes and heart disease

______ also impact negatively on the plants, landscapes and waterways of the Pacific Islands. That's why Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000) is a ______.
Cows


Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii,

Each television in theElectronic Superhighway has something playing that represents each _____
State

Electronic Superhighway was the ____ to use telivisions in a peice of art. This became know as "Video Art"
First

Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Uses the piece to show that we are not only connected by transportation but also______.
electronic communication


Bill Viola, The Crossing

Bill Viola, The Crossing is a _________ peice that is ment to increase his or her own awareness of detail, movement and change.
Time Consuming

Fire and water can represent ______ in The Crossing
Change, redemption, transformation and renewal
We can see this with his knowledge of religions like Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sufism
At the end of the crossing, in both the rain and water side the man _____ at the end
Disappears


Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was the first of its kind to break away from_______.
The neo-classical style

Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was made in an urban area to try to ______ the area.
Revive

What is a reoccurring motif that Frank Gehry uses in his works?
A fish


Mariko Mori, Pure Land

Mariko Mori, Pure Land is a photograph of what piece?
"Nirvana"
It was originally made in 4D where the video was 3d and scented air was blown into the viewers face.
In Mariko Mori, Pure Land the picture bends what two things together
Tradition symbols and futuristic elements.

What religion might Pure Land be following?
Buddhism

Who is the central image in Pure Land
The artist.


Kiki Smith, Lying with the Wolf

In a series, which includes Lying with the Wolf what is the common theme?
Women’s relationships with animals

What statement is made in Lying with the Wolf?
Women as equals, not prey.

Kiki Smith, who made Lying with the Wolf wants what 2 things?
earthly with the spiritual and the personal with the collective


Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion

What is the main focus on in all of Kara Walker's peices?
African Americans

Kara Walker's Darkytown Rebellion is a video, True or false?
False
It is a prejection
Kara Walker, Darkytown Rebellion is a reflection of life before and after the ________
Civil Was


Yinka Shonibare MBE, The Swing (After Fragonard)

The Swing (After Fragonard) was made from the Rococo painting called what?
The Swing

The viewer becomes part of The Swing (After Fragonard) by taking the roll of who?
The man who in spying in the bottom corner of the painting.
You become the pervert in a sense.
Why does The Swing (After Fragonard) have no head, unlike the original?
Guillotine was major during the Reign of Terror in the 1790s, when members of the French aristocracy were publicly beheaded


El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth

Even though Old Man's Cloth is made from metal, it is considered a what?
Textile

The bottle caps, in the artists eyes capture what? (Old Man's Cloth)
African history
Europeans would bring alcohol to Africa to trade with them, bulding their economy
The Old Man's Cloth is made by _____
A group


Julie Mehretu, Stadia II

In Stabia II the artist wants to show what about the world?
Energy and Chaos

Julie Mehretu, Stadia II is considered what form of art?
Abstract

THe different shapes and colors represent what in Julie Mehretu, Stadia II?
Country's
Think of the olympics

Wangechi Mutu, Preying Mantra

In Preying Mantra, Wangechi Mutu is trying to question what?
how we see gender, sexuality, and even cultural identity

Wangechi Mutu'S Preying Mantra is considered a what?
collage

Why does Preying Mantra has a reference to a Preying Manreas?
To show that this women is as scary as the insect is


Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth

The word Shibboleth means what, and why did Doris Salcedo use it to name her piece?