How Was That Made?
What IS that?
I Made That
We Believe...
Bright Ideas, or Not
100
It is true, due to my choice is artistic materials, my pieces usually go with the wind, or tide, or heat of the sun.
What are natural objects like sticks, ice, and leaves?
100
Duchamp's "The Fountain" was actually one of these
What is an urinal?
100
I gave Campbell Soup cans and Coca-Cola products a new look, and am famous for it.
Who is Andy Warhol?
100
We believe that we can establish a new identity through our art and discussion, and that our cultural contributions, such as jazz, will leave a lasting legacy in these lands.
Who are artists of the Harlem Renaissance?
100
Gandhi followed this powerful idea and ended leading one of the most successful anticolonial revolts of the twentieth century.
What is nonviolence or pacifism?
200
I, Yves Klein, used these as my paint brush and drew a large audience to see my performance work. I have to admit that most guys could not refuse!
What are naked women?
200
These images mess with my eyes! It is almost like the piece is moving!
What is Op Art?
200
I wrote the following lines in my poem, "United Fruit Co.": "And all the while, somewhere in the sugary hells of our seaports, smothered by gases, an Indian fell in the morning..."
Who is Pablo Neruda?
200
We believe that what is typically seen as women's proclivities, such as being meek, gossipy, and obsessed with love, is actually the product of an unequal system that privileges men.
Who are feminists?
200
This was a policy of strict racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against the black population in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
300
Through the use of digital computer programing, this offers an alternative the flesh-and-blood life you live.
What is virtual reality?
300
I wrote the following in my famous book, "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
Who is Ralph Ellison?
300
We, as a large group of writers, believe that there is a complicated relationship between the author, the text, and the reader. This is clear in poems such as, "Paradoxes and Oxymorons."
What is postmodern literature and poetry?
300
This term is used to describe politically unstable countries, usually in Central or South America, whose economies are dependent upon the export of one specialty item, such as bananas.
What is a "banana republic"?
400
Frank Ghery designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall largely with this material.
What is stainless steel paneling?
400
It may be a futuristic compound in the middle of a desert, it may be hundreds of umbrellas in the country side, it may be or an organized set of actions to be performed on the streets or in a persons home. The point is, the process seems to matter more than the finished products.
What is Total Art?
400
I made this art piece: a large dinner party at a triangular table that is set to honor women in history who have been down-played or ignored, like Virginia Woolf or Aspasia.
Who is Judy Chicago?
400
We believe that art should be representational, embrace aspects of consumer culture, and appeal to the eye.
Who are Pop Artists.
400
This school of thought questions the relationship between language and reality often claiming that language does not actual refer to the real world at all.
What is poststructuralism?
500
We prefer to use this material when we drastically reshape or reinvent a large space, such as the country side of California or a large public building in Germany.
What is fabric (and lots of money)?
500
That is the sound of "subtle, shimmering currents that murmur in a continuous hypnotic flow that almost completely lack melody and harmony.
What is microtonality or micropolyphony? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QSuXpzNDs8
500
My shadow box art, such as "The Liberation of Aunt Jemima" attacks the unflattering stereotypes of black people in popular U.S. culture.
Who is Betty Saar?
500
Joyce Carol Oates is one leader of this movement that believes art should give voice to violence, poverty, corporate greed, and a search for spiritual renewal in a commodity-driven world.
What is social conscience art?
500
This movement differs from its predecessor in that it is specifically NOT concerned with narrative content, or moral, social and political issues. This is the opposite of what the name might suggest based on what we learned about during the turn of the century.
What is New Realism?
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