Modern Art Final Exam (Exam 4)

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coined by Robert Smithson, this is an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked.

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Earth Works (Earth Art)

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A work where the artist allowed people to walk and experience the lake, the artwork, and earth all at the same time.

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"Spiral Jetty", Robert Smithson, Earth Works

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Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, Stan Herd, Walter De Maria, Nancy Holt (Wife of Robert Smithson), Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long, Mary Miss, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, James Turrell

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Earth Art (Land Art)

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was an American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art.

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Robert Smithson

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any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all. May or may not be funded by public money.

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Public Art

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Maya Ying Lin, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg

Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, Chris Ofili, Sesame Street, Names Quilt Project

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Public Art

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American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art. They came to fame at the age of 21 as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Maya Ying Lin

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This movement emphasizes the “process” of making art (rather than any predetermined composition or plan) and the concepts of change and transience.

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Process Art

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Eva Hesse, Lynda Benglis, Jackie Winsor

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Process Art

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Andrew Wyeth, Alice Neel

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Figurative Art

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describes artwork—particularly paintings and sculptures—that is clearly derived from real object sources, and is therefore by definition representational.

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Figurative Art (figurativism)

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Wheel of Fortune, Audrey Flack, Photorealism

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Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, Richard Estes, Duane Hanson

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Photorealism (Figurative Art)

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this art movement, evolved from Pop Art and as a counter to Abstract Expressionism as well as Minimalist art movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States.

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Photorealism

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This artist's work pioneered the art genre of photorealism and their art is expressed through painting and sculpture. This artist worked through subjects like memento mori (an object serving as a warning or reminder of death, such as a skull), and vanitas (a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability).

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Audrey Flack

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Jenny Holzer, Cindy Sherman Chris Ofili, Christo Jeanne-Claude, Tracy Emin, Jeff Koons, I. M. Pei, and Robert Arneson. The other notable art followers are Mike Bidlo, Judy Chicago, Daniel Flahiff, and Hans Haacke.

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Post-Modern Artists

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a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath.

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Post Modernism

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Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub, Sue Coe, Elizabeth Murray, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basuiat

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Neo-Expressionism

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Anselm Kiefer, Departure from Egypt, Neo-Expressionism

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Miriam Schapiro, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner

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Pattern and Decoration Art Movement

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the name of an art movement that had its moment of visibility in the post-modern pluralism of the 1970's and 1980's. The movement was to revive an interest in minor forms such as patterning which at that point was equated with triviality.

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Pattern and Decoration Art Movement

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This artist studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. Thier works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.

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Anselm Kiefer

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Miriam Schapiro, Black Bolero, Pattern and Decoration

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Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley

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Neo Geo

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this term came into use in the early 1980s in America to describe the work of artists who criticized the mechanization and commercialism of the modern world whilst using geometry as a metaphor for society,

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Neo Geo Art Movement

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Elizabeth Murray, Art Part, Neo-Expressionism

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Broken holding fragments together

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Elizabeth Murray

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I. M. Pei, Louvre, Post-Modernism

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Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst

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Commodity Art

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An American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces.

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Jeff Koons

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John Ahearn, Pepon Osorio, Christian Boltanski, Bill Viola, Kara Walker

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Installation Art

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An artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

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Installation Art

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Bill Viola, Cai Guo-Qjang, Matthew Barney, Charles Ray

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New Media

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Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On), Kara Walker, Contemporary Art

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Cindy Sherman, Untitled No.224, Post-Modernism

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Challenges facing African Americans in the 'projects'. Home and Garden mockery, splashes of paint are examples of violence

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Kerry James Marshall, Better Homes, Contemporary Artist

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Uses discarded objects, liquor bottles, trans-Atlantic slave trade, items in piece are used like Africans

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El Anatsui, Intermittent Signals, Contemporary Art

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Jimmie Durham, James Luna, Jaune Quick-to-see Smith, Shirin Neshat, El Anatsui, Wenda Gu, Shahzia Sikander, Do Ho Suh, Kerry James Marshall, Whitfield Lovell.

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Contemporary Art

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Kiki Smith, Mona Hatoum, Tony Oursler, Yinka Shonibare, Krysztof Wodiczko,

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New Media Artists (contemporaries)