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After AbEx / Beginnings of Postmodernism
Variations on Pop
Postminimalism
Postmodernism
Contemporary Art
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Group of Japanese artists who drew inspiration from Jackson Pollock.
What is the Gutai Group?
100
French counterpart of the American Pop artists.
What is New Realism?
100
Artworks whose subject matter is the process of their creation.
What is Process art?
100
She is famous for her series of Untitled Film Stills.
Who is Cindy Sherman?
100
Artist known for piling candy in museums and giving it away for free.
Who is Felix Gonzalez-Torres?
200
A critic called this artist postmodern in relation to his combine paintings, which are made up of disparate elements that do not coalesce into any single, unified meaning or narrative.
Who is Robert Rauschenberg?
200
Technique used by Andy Warhol to create his painting, 210 Coca-Cola Bottles (1962).
What is silkscreen?
200
A large-scale artwork for which the surface of the earth is the medium.
What is an earthwork?
200
The Jeff Koons’ New Hoover Convertibles is one example.
What is Commodity art?
200
A designed environment set up as an artwork in a gallery or outdoor location.
What is an installation?
300
Group of American artists operating at the limits of modernism during the 1960s.
What is Minimalism?
300
American Pop artist who set up his own store in a New York City storefront in 1961.
Who is Claes Oldenburg?
300
Her Dinner Party celebrates women’s history through such stereotypically feminine and decorative artistic media as needlework and china painting.
Who is Judy Chicago?
300
The copying of images for purposes different from those for which they were originally intended.
What is appropriation?
300
The year seen by many historians of contemporary art as marking a new historical period.
What is 1989?
400
Term used to describe chance, the allover grid, the monochrome, and the readymade; all strategies that helped artists minimize individual decision-making in their assault on the traditional values of art and personal artistic subjectivity.
What is strategies of non-composition?
400
A reductive process and variation on collage in which layers are removed by tearing to reveal what lies beneath.
What is décollage?
400
American brand whose story has been reimagined by Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar, among other artists.
What is Aunt Jemima?
400
American architect inspired by vernacular buildings who designed the Chestnut Hill House for his mother in 1962.
Who is Robert Venturi?
400
African artist whose Intermittent Signals (2009) draws on the detritus of global consumerism.
Who is El Anatsui?
500
Term used to describe artists working in the 1950s and 1960s who made the avant-garde “new” by deploying strategies like collage, the readymade, and monochrome painting.
What is the neo-avant-garde?
500
A process of shading by means of small uniform dots used for cheap photographic reproductions; also imitated by Pop artists.
What is Benday?
500
An art term describing the systematic inquiry into the practices and ethos surrounding art institutions such as art academies, galleries, and museums.
What is Institutional critique?
500
An appropriative strategy used by postmodern architects, who seemed to be collaging historical styles to generate contemporary buildings.
What is pastiche?
500
Rikrit Tiravanija’s works have been seen as an example of this mode of artist practice because of the way they address themselves to the experience of the audience.
What is Relational aesthetics?