Arth Quiz 1 - Art

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Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimus, 1950-51 (Postwar America, Color Field Abstract Expressionism)

Idea of starting from scratch

Zip - line

act of interruption

Large - painting owns you

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Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, 1950 (Postwar America, Gestural Abstract Expressionism)

"finished work is nothing without the process"

killed painting

entered canvas

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Jean Dubuffet, Female Nude, 1945 ([Post]war Europe, Art Informel)

Child like but unsettling

rejection of anatomy

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Jean Fautrier, The Jewess - Hostage, 1943 ([Post]war Europe, Art Informel)

formless

haute pate - high paste, cut into it

small due to lack of space - in hiding

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Alberto Giacometti, City Square, 1948 (Postwar Europe, Return to Figuration)

distorted human shape

heavy base

absolute distance - do not see any more detail up close

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Francis Bacon, Study after Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Velasquez, 1953 (Postwar Europe, Return to Figuration)

classical figure with distorted unsettling representation

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Robert Rauschenberg, White Painting, 1953 (The 1950s, Neo-Dada)

Visual of John Cage 4 mins of silence, chance, real time

white painted panels (1-7)

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Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 1955 (The 1950s, Neo-Dada)

Combine - 2d vs 3d, painting vs sculpture, vertical vs horizontal, fine art vs everyday

Paint with everyday item

pillow on canvas

vertical bed

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Jasper Johns, Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), 1960 (The 1960s, Neo-Dada)

Cans (every day) into Bronze (fine art)

Taking something that is mass produced and make it individual ( see differences)

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Roy Lichtenstein, In the Car, 1963 (The 1960s, Pop Art)

Benday Dot - coloring tech

Primary color

tell story in one scene

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James Rosenquist, President Elect, 1960-61 (The 1960s, Pop Art)

Large scale ( like billboard)

American - new hope, cars, american dream

mesh of advertisment and art

painted college

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Andy Warhol, Brillo Box, 1964 (The 1960s, Pop Art)

Something from everyday into art

Mass production

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Andy Warhol, Pink Race Riot, 1963 (The 1960s, Pop Art)

Bright color - media over saturation

Hard times

Screen printing - all about imagery not artist hand

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Claes Oldenburg, The Store, 1961 (The 1960s, Environment/Happening)

Buying and Selling

Filled shop with messy every day objects he made (plaster paper)

Environment - surrounded by work

Happening - Part of art without knowing

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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964 (The 1960s, Fluxus)

gender politics

cut clothes off

chance

interactive

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Dan Flavin, Monument to V. Tatlin, 1964 (The 1960s, Minimalism)

industrial material

inspired by Russian constructionist

not trying to question art

interactive (due to light not being physical)

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Robert Morris, L-Beams, 1965 (The 1960s, Minimalism)

Gestalt - Wholeness, know what your looking at, minimize distractions

body relationship to form (height)

People will experience differently

Apripori - in advance, not intuitive

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Sol Lewitt, Untitled (The Xerox Book), 1968 (The 1960s, Conceptualism

self exaustive system - closed system, a priori

all about concept

created system

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Lawrence Weiner, A Rectangular Removal... (The Xerox Book), 1968 (The 1960s, Conceptualism)

Language - democratic, everyone can understand

activate in mind

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Hans Haacke, Shapolsky et al., Manhattan Real Estate Holdings..., 1971 (The 1970s, Conceptualism)

public records of the gallery owners ect

institutional art

who is making the money on the artists