Feminist Art
Artist who performed Interior Scroll
Who is Carol Scheenmann?
The cultural wing of the Black Power Movement.
What is the Black Arts Movement (BAM)?
Known for his action paintings and was Greenberg's favourite boy ♡ ♡ ♡
Who is Jackson Pollock?
This is the Postmodern practice of borrowing, sampling, or re-contextualizing existing images or artworks.
What is appropriation?
This art form, exemplified by Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, is heavily reliant on photography because the works are too remote, vast, or temporary to be viewed directly.
What is Land Art?
Artist who made a series of photographs called Untitled Film Stills
Who is Cindy Sherman?
This label was often used by the mainstream art world to dismiss the work of self-taught artists like Bill Traylor.
What is Outsider Art?
Mass-produced, sentimental, and easily consumed art.
What is kitsch?
His Pop Art, such as Floor Burger, used soft, pliable materials to critique the rigidity and function of consumer commodities.
Who is Claes Oldenburg?
Term for something which only exists for a short time (such as performance art)
What is "ephemeral"?
A feminist mantra that links private experiences of women to systemic, societal structures
What is "The Personal is Political"?
This artist used the medium of the quilt to create narrative works that integrate African-American history and personal identity.
Who is Faith Ringgold?
Clement Greenberg's definition of modernism.
Where do we get the idea of modernism as a movement toward "medium specificity" and the exploration of a medium's inherent limits, like the flatness of painting?
Cheap printing technique that Roy Lichtenstein recreated by hand in his comic book paintings.
What are Ben-day dots?
This artist’s Silueta Series used natural materials like earth, sand, and fire to trace the outline of her body in the landscape.
Who is Ana Mendieta?
This anonymous collective of female artists creates posters as a form of Institutional Critique.
Who are the Guerrilla Girls?
Making only a performative effort at inclusivity, like including a member from a marginalized community just to portray an image of diversity.
What is tokensim?
The two main styles within abstract expressionism.
What are colour-field painting and action painting?
This group created ephemeral, humorous, instructional artworks called "scores"
What is Fluxus?
Term coined by Allan Kaprow to describe performance art events.
What is a "Happening?"
An example of an institutional barrier given by Linda Nochlin that prevented women from practicing the highest forms of art (like history painting) for centuries.
What is the denial of access to the nude model?
An iconic piece of assemblage art by Betye Saar that repurposed racist ephemera into a symbol of black liberation.
What is The Liberation of Aunt Jemima?
Greenberg used this term to dismiss art that relied on narrative, performance, or audience spectacle rather than focusing on pure form.
What is Theatricality?
The Postmodern acceptance of multiple styles, mediums, and subject matter, in direct contrast to Modernism's "linear progression".
What is pluralism?
This term describes moving away from producing art objects in favor of more conceptual and performance based work.
What is "dematerialization"?