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12 Cards in this Set
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Representation |
Object is “traced” on the Picture Plane giving the viewer an illusion of 3d form on a 2d canvas or paper ground. |
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Picture Plane |
1) the fixed window through which artist in fixed position views object 2) the ground, i.e. the canvas or paper itself on which the artist paints or draws a form. (When you talk about Picture Plane, you are talking about 2d work.) |
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Illusion |
3d form on a 2d canvas |
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Figurative Abstraction |
An object, also called a figure, is present. Forms might be rearranged in an abstract work. Forms are often simplified. Conveying the essence of the object likely more important to the abstract painter, for example, than tricking the viewer about its physical reality. Artist is not denying the flatness of the Picture Plane. In one work, the choice of object (e.g. cat) may feel arbitrary, may be just an excuse to paint or sculpt, while in another work the choice of object (cat or American flag, or car crash victim) may be highly significant content to the artist. |
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Non-objective art |
The artist has moved away from reference to the object, perhaps asserting the idea of a sculpture or painting, for example, as object-in-its-own- right, something created out of materials, not some window on Reality Out There. The Picture Plane in non-objective painting is merely the surface worked upon with media, the canvas or paper or panel ground. A non-objective sculpture would be 3d art which explores form without reference to or illustration of a figure, not intending to be read as cat or whatever, but as pure form for its own sake. |
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Ground |
the canvas or paper itself on which the artist paints or draws a form. |
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Figure |
An object (e.g. a tin can or cat or boy). |
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Kitsch |
Sentimentality, tastelessness, tackiness. May refer to certain kinds of mass-produced items or to popular taste that displays such anti-high-art aesthetics, e.g. a plaster version of Durer’s Praying Hands, sprayed with glitter. |
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Appropriation |
Taking & using some (major) element from art or non-art source without permission. In contemporary art, a trend in which visual content is lifted with or without attribution, which often makes the most of reference while changing context, e.g Paul McCarthy's (ironic) use of Disney's Pinocchio. |
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Narrative (art) |
Story, account of events. Art work concerned with story telling. Often this includes animate figures. Some performance aspects in art we screened included narrative elements. |
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Kinetic (art) |
Related to, or caused by, or producing motion. In art, most often refers to sculpture with moving parts. |
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Performance (art) |
Visual art experiment of past several decades which usually involves time, space, and artist's body in what may be scripted or spontaneous event. Many, but certainly not all, performance art pieces are presented in galleries. In its purest form, the performance itself is the (however ephemeral) work of art, which may or may not have been documented. In many works we studied this semester, however, performance has been just one aspect on the way to creating the work we remember, i.e. the photograph or the video.
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