What was Rhythm 0?
In this performance Marina Ambromobic acted as an object while the audience used objects from a table of 72 objects on her. It helped performance become a serious art.
What is the definition of Clan?
A group of people joined by blood or marriage ties
What are clues to someone's class?
What they are wearing, their car, house
What is nude?
An unclothed and idealized figure, usually without pubic hair, reclining, sometimes touching herself, either gazing at the viewer or with her eyes closed.
What was appropriation?
The conscious copying of an image and altering it in some way.
Who was Yayoi Kusama and how did her work fit under mind?
Kusama is an artist whose work is mostly psychological, she suffers from mental illness such as hallucinations. Part of her work is her reaction to her fear of penises.
Who is Jeff Koons?
He is an artist who created the 'Balloon Dog"
Who was Robert Arneson? Why was he important?
He was the first to make ceramics something other than a precious dish. He made sculpture out of ceramics.
Is Cecily Brown's work nude or naked?
Naked
What was socialist realism?
Realistic painting or sculpture advocating the working class. It was used by the Soviet Union or Chinese especially during the Cultural Revolution
What artwork did Cindy Sherman make?
Cindy Sherman created self-portraits where she became a character type from American culture.
What was James Luna's 'The Artifact Piece'?
Luna is half Mexican and half Native American. In this piece he critiques the museum as a collection of dead and non-relatable objects. He presents himself and his close personal objects as something relatable to current Native American culture and people.
Who were the guerrilla girls?
The Guerilla girls was a group of women who dressed as guerillas in order to remain anonymous and to critique the art world for its underrepresentation of women artists.
What is naked?
The unclothed figure that is more realistic or grotesque (ugly), usually with pubic hair.
What did Ai Weiwei's ‘Study of Perspective’ photo series- Tiananmen Square look like?
In a photograph, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is casually undermining the government by flipping them off.
Louise Bourgeois' art was about the mind or body?
mind
What was?
The garage acts as a visual guillotine for these individuals who seem to be shackled to the chairs and this lifestyle and line of work
What was feminism in art?
More women artists entered the art world and made and showed their art. They made art out of new media such as performance and craft materials. They wanted to create an art story that included women.
What is the male gaze?
Laura Mulvey’s film term, the implied viewer of art and the media is a white, heteronormative male.
Did the Palais de Versailles advocate change or things staying the same?
The French king, King Louis XIV’s grand estate and grounds. It acted as a way to visually reinforce his divine right to rule as well.
What did Janine Antoni do in 'Loving Care?'
Antoni mopped the floor with her hair using a black hair dye.
What was Orientalism?
A racist art movement in Western art history where Caucasian male artists invented a fantasy, morally corrupt orient.
"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"
Women did not have the same opportunities as men, such as access to nude models.
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary, black, queer artist who alters art historical paintings by replacing the heroes with African Americans.
Kathe Kollwitz made prints that advocated change or wanted to stay the same
Prints could be mass-produced to the mostly illiterate populations as a form of propaganda for social and political change. Her emotionally charged prints illustrated the plight of the common people.