TATE Terms
LArt in which the body, often that of the artist, is the principal medium and focus.
What is Body Art?
As an alternative to paint, this public art movement uses knitted or crocheted interventions.
What is Yarn Bombing?
The construction or creation of an artwork from any materials that come to hand.
What is Bricolage?
What is Sfumato
An American artist and sculptor. He became known as “the foremost African-American abstract Scuand artist of public sculpture and is a Chicago native. He studies at SAIC in the 1950s.
Who is Richard Hunt
Took youth classes at SAIC starting at 13 and graduated BAE in 1957
Collective name given to a number of nineteenth century North American landscape painters who depicted scenes of natural beauty in these specific areas of New York.
What is the Hudson River School?
Art that uses this type of thinking to investigate continuity, folding and connection as a framework. Also a field of mathematics involving shapes and spaces.
What is Topology?
Italian movement started by the Argentine-born Italian artist Lucio Fontana in 1947 who, in its manifesto, stated that art should embrace science and technology.
What is Spazialismo?
An early form of abstract art characterised by interacting linear forms derived from light.
What is Rayonism?
She wrote the 2017 best selling graphic novel “My Favorite Thing is Monsters”
Who is Emil Farris, BFA 2008, MFA 2010
A rigid support or surface for painting on. Often made of wood or ceramic.
What is a Panel?
Curator Irit Rogoff argues that education should involve questioning assumptions in this pedagogical approach.
What is Unlearning?
An approach to studying and interpreting the cultures of everyday life that uses the techniques of experimental filmmaking, like montage, found footage and surrealism, to create new ways of seeing the world around us.
What is Experimental Ethnography?
An artwork that is perfectly circular
What is Tondo?
In the briefest of terms, this thoughtful and attentive person is a Curator for globally collaborative exhibitions of contemporary art, a PhD candidate and an instructor at SAIC.
Who is Asha Iman Veal
Refers to any realist painting that also carries a clearly discernible social or political comment
What is Social Realism
For artists such as JeeYeun Lee, the artwork is the journey itself with maps, pictures or text functioning as traces of the work
What is Walking Art
Meaning ‘deceives the eye,' used to describe paintings that create the illusion of a real object or scene.
What is Trompe L'oeil?
DAILY DOUBLE!! A painting where the top layer of pigments becomes transparent over time, revealing the underlying layers
What is Pentimento?
This artist is known for creating large-scale works that incorporate black soap, shea butter, plants, and steel structures to explore themes of identity, history and the Black experience
Who is Rashid Johnson, MFA 2005
From an Italian term, meaning realism in its sense of gritty subject matter, portraying a subject with its flaws.
What is Verism
A process developed in the 1930s as a graphic organizer in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a story
What is story boarding
Avant-garde art school founded in 1946 with the aim of promoting the idea that a new art was necessary to reflect the modern world as revealed by science.
What is the School of Altamira?
This term is about a 19th century creative storytelling game and optical toy of illustrated cards
What is Myriorama
This SAIC alumna turned her artistic training into a global fashion brand know for colorful, playful designs
Who is Cynthia Rowley, BFA 1981