Artists
In response to Cold War tensions, this artist took to using a thinned-down paint to create expansive masses of opposing colors that would both highlight + weigh each other down. He questioned if people can uplifted through art rather than provoked, and wanted viewers to stand as close to his canvases as possible to be fully embraced by the painting.
Mark Rothko
This came about in the mid-1800's, but has remained throughout history ever since due to the constantly back-and-forth pull of western art. They are the new creative geniuses who explore visual possibilities + techniques through schools of thought outside of tradition.
The avant-garde
Out of the development of 3 distinct intellectually ideas in the late 1800's (formal elements as the foundation of experience, emotion + intellect having a self conscious relationship, + art as the catalyst for progress), this art movement started as a way for artists personal visions to be expressed through material + representation.
Modernism
Jean-Michel Basquiat plays the role of the jester in his works, as many contain a central tragic black figure, showing cryptic references to/critiques of race and class.
False (Hammon was characterized as a jester)
When one acts in taking implement of any sort and creating an expression or gesture on a surface, this could be considered ______.
Drawing
A French artist in the 19-teens, he was apart of the avant-garde before turning to a art style he would revolutionize + become the poster boy of. Several of his pieces use phonetic relations to guide the audience towards their deeper meaning beneath the ordinary or pre-made exterior.
Marcel Duchamp
This period came in the advent of the Enlightenment, American + French Revolutions as a rejection of hyper ornamentation for the reexamining, questioning, + rejection of all received knowledge, stating that knowledge is gained through our experience of the material world.
Neoclassicism
A method of painting that creates a documentation of the artist's gestural movements + makes their physical presence part of the piece.
Action Painting
James Rosenquist was a former billboard painter who pull from a philosophical questioning on the meaning of symbols to create his works of large, grandiose scaled advertisement-based paintings, bridging pop art + trade art.
False (Jasper Johns was the strange little semiotics man)
The most fundamental element of design, ___ can indicate mass, shape, + visual interest. Some of its forms include actual or implied.
line
THE American painter who justifies modern art with the precision and consistency of his choreographed-like technique, juxtaposing it's inherent spontentiaty.
Jackson Pollock
With the advent of light-based media in the mid-1800's, abstraction and the focus on process in western art was explored through the questioning + disregard of what 2 standards for painting as a medium? (Each is 150 points)
Pictorial Space + Representational Art
This art movement pulled meaning from everyday/existing visual language w/ a 2d representation + lack of depth. It celebrated what the everyday people enjoyed and look to reinterpret what was already familiar to our culture.
Pop Art
Pop art rejected the lack of representation in abstract expressionism, in addition to rejecting the idea of artists as creative geniuses. While early forms were a critique of the lack of sophistication in American culture, the height of pop art in America was used to both embrace and critique consumerism.
True
_____ can be defined as the tool by which we measure spatial qualities in art, it can also create size and temporal attributes.
Dimension
This artist playfully transgresses the notion of separation by flattening the hierarchy of fine taste and vulgarity. He is able to create distinct, 'new' media by combining cultural forms + histories that we would often see as having no relation.
Ruben Ortiz-Torres
This art movement did not believe that art required technical talent or skill, but rather the ability to intellectually engage with diverse styles and truths. Additionally, it claims that meaning is found w/in the context rather than the artwork itself, + that meaning can changed by the audience's interpretation of the work.
Postmodernism
This style utilizes appropriation to take the pre-made and recontexalize it into a new genre by giving it a new context. It was created to give disadvantaged youths an outlet for competition w/out violence + critiques power structures as well as being a way to rebel + elevate one's identity, as people across all walks of life and cultures can identify with the struggles it touches on.
Hip Hop
David Hammons is known for using language + slang only in the titles of his works to guide the viewers towards the meaning of his deceptively simple art. Additionally, he used materials from the urban spaces he was working in to make site-specific work to the issues in those communities.
False (not only titles, he visualized puns too)
___ ____ is the use of line, shape, size, color, value, and detail to create a focused composition that draws the viewers eyes to a certain object or area of a work.
Focal Point
This artist combined abstract expressionism and pop art in addition to creating his own distinct style of combining several different techniques, mediums, + materials before it was it's own distinct medium.
Robert Rauschenberg
Inspired by colonialism and the baroque period, this art style came out of using identity and culture to take an oppressive circumstance into an artistic outlet theatricality, identity, and disruption of social order.
Lowriders
A short-lived movement that set the president for the art to not be confined to trade mediums. Many of it's values were critiques of those in power; worldwide + in the art world.
Dada