Module 9 Art History Terms

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms from Module 9 of Art History II.

Pop Artist Jasper Johns worked in a medium involving mixing colored pigment into melted wax called __________________________. 

Encaustic

What term is used to describe a very thick application of paint onto the surface of the canvas.

Impasto

Pop Art sculptor Claes Oldenburg created an outdoor podium for Vietnam War protesters in the shape of what object?

 

A Lipstick tube

Considered the greatest American Pop Artist, Andy Warhol produced his trademark repeated images of soup cans and celebrities using what printing method?

Silkscreen

Name the Swiss sculptor and friend of Jean-Paul Sartre whose gaunt, isolated bronze figures captured the alienation and despair people felt after WWII in his sculpture Man Pointing No. 5.

 

Alberto Giacometti

Name the movement that occurred during the early 1960's that created art commenting on mass media, advertising, and consumerism in a response against the Minimalist movement.

 

Pop Art

Name the French-American female artist whose sensually organic sculptures are suggestive of human body parts that she equates to a landscape: 

 

Louise Bourgeois

Global Groove (1973) is a work by a Korean artist ________________________ who combined music, performance art, social and political commentary, and Eastern philosophy exploring the possibilities of the new media of Video Art.

 

Nam June Paik

Pop Art's roots can be traced back to a group of independent artists working in London. Who's pioneering Pop Art collages mix together images of comic strips, movie posters, muscle man pictures, and product advertisements in a piece titled Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

 

Richard Hamilton

An example of a site-specific 'Earthwork' from the 1970's was created by Robert Smithson and can be found at the Great Salt Lake of Utah called: 

 

The Spiral Jetty

What artist championed 'Crude Art', and a distain for museum culture through his thickly encrusted paintings and child-like images such as Vie Inquiete (Uneasy Life)?

 

Jean Dubuffet

The brass and colored Plexiglass sculptures of Donald Judd can be categorized as what artistic style?

 

Minimalist

The paintings of Mark Rothko could best be described as what type of abstraction?

 

chromatic abstraction

Known as a "photographer of freaks", this female New York photographer created black and white images of unique characters she found with physical or mental aberrations.

 

Diane Arbus

The philosophy asserting the absurdity of human existence that pervaded the western world after WWII and espoused by Jean-Paul Sartre was called:

 

Existentialism

This German born but London based artist creates intimate and casual portraits of vulnerable, realistic nudes in thick impasto paint creating a feeling that one is intruding into their personal and private space.

 

Lucian Freud

The pioneering Performance Artist named Alan Kaprow in 1959 staged a series of his signature performance art pieces that he called: 

Happenings

The abstract sculptor Louise Nevelson creates architecture-like constructions using found objects made out of what material?

Wood

These methods describe the painting technique of Jackson Pollock with the exception of:

 

Brush and an Easel

The small chapel in France called the Notre-Dame-du-Haut is a compact but beautiful example of the organic qualities achievable by Modern architecture. This building with a roof shaped like the wings of a dove or praying hands was by the architect:

 

Le Corbusier

In his painting Saraband (part of his Veil series), this color field painter created waterfall like color veils by holding up the edges of the canvas and pouring diluted acrylic paint onto the unprimed surface to absorb. 

 

Morris Louis

Critic Harold Rosenberg gave to the 1950's New York School of painting what descriptive name that refers to its method of application? 

 

Action painting

In his painting Mas o Menos (More or Less), _________________________ uses evenly spaced pinstripes on a colored ground with no central focus, painterly elements, or texture to create purity of visual experience.

 

Frank Stella

Art critic Clement Greenberg gave what title to the "cool and detached rationality" of the painters using hard edged shapes and lines with no visible brushstrokes during the period following the emotionally expressive Abstract Expressionists? 

 

Post-painterly abstraction

Jean Tinguely's performance sculpture ___________________________ was a whimsical and quirky machine designed to mechanically activate and self-destruct in front of an exclusive New York audience in 1960. 

 

Homage To New York

Name the American Superrealist sculptor who creates stereotypes of lower and middle-class people out of painted resin molded from a life casting process.

Hanson

The painter Barnett Newman created mural sized paintings of almost monochromatic red color separated by vertical lines he called 'zips' in his painting titled ________________________.

 

Sublime Heroic Man

 

Bridget Riley

The artist whose name is synonymous with Op Art (Optical Art) is ______________________, whose painting Fission (1963) creates harsh vibrations, and the illusion of motion, and depth. 

 

pouring paint onto unprimed canvas

The color field painter Helen Frankenthaler in the 1950's created large canvases like The Bay using what technique?

Name the former Times Square billboard sign painter turned artist whose 86 feet long painting F-111 commented on the connection between American consumerism and the war machine.

 

James Rosenquist

Abstract Expressionism can be expressed in two basic forms; chromatic abstraction and _______________________ abstraction.

gestural

After WWII in the 1950's the center of the art world moved from France to _________________________.

 

The United States

This London based artist captured in his work Painting, and Figure With Meat, the brutality of violence in the aftermath of WWII through horrifying visions.

 

Francis Bacon

Feminist artist Judy Chicago created a triangular 48 foot table complete with custom table settings honoring 39 important women in world history called: 

 

The Dinner Party

The artist David Smith created outdoor metal sculptures of irregularly stacked cubes welded together and meant to reflect the colors of their surroundings in a series called: 

Cubi

American artist Robert Rauschenberg blurred the lines between painting and sculpture in his found art assemblages which he called _________________________. 

Combines

By using un-staged and candid photographed portraits of himself and his friends this artist's super-realistic, large-scale, airbrushed paintings accomplished his goal to "translate photographic information into painted information": 

 

Chuck Close

Name the female photographer who creates black-and-white images that resemble film stills that she choreographs using herself as a model exploring Western views of women in society.

 

Cindy Sherman

The American painter whose work and technique most exemplified the gestural form of Abstract Expressionism was: 

 

Jackson Pollock

A good example of 20th century Modernist ideas in architecture is the snail shell inspired art museum in New York designed by Frank Lloyd Wright called: 

 

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Which is NOT a characteristic of Abstract Expressionism

 

Pure shapes, lines, and colors

This German post-WWII artist created a series of 'damaged landscapes' that conjured the aerial bombardments of the 1940's as in his painting Townscape Paris: 

 

Gerhard Richter

Photo realist artist Audrey Flack's painting Marilyn alludes to the 17th century Dutch practice of paintings whose subjects remind us of the transience of life called: 

 

Vanitas

This Dutch born immigrant became a prominent figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement with his thickly applied and slashing brushstrokes loosely based on the female form as in Woman I. 

 

Willem De Kooning

Name the Manhattan born Pop Artist who elevated the melodrama and violence of comic books into the realm of 'Fine Art' by creating large scale paintings of this low-brow subject. 

 

Roy Lichtenstein

Name the influential American art critic who championed Abstract Expressionism as a pure art form.

 

Clement Greenberg

Name the Russian born 'chromatic expressionist' painter who simplified his paintings into two or three interrelated colored rectangles that seemed to hover over the background creating a hauntingly moving emotional response in the viewer.

 

Mark Rothko

Name the female Abstract Expressionist who painted The Seasons (1957) and was also the wife of Jackson Pollock. 

 

Lee Krasner

Shoo Shima Stone Study (1978) is a semi-abstract sculpture made from granite that is reminiscent of a birds nest or a Japanese rock garden. It speaks to the heritage of the artist who made it named ___________________________. 

 

Isamu Noguchi

This Australian architectural landmark designed by Joern Utzon looks like the billowing sails of a great ship in the harbor.

 

The Sydney Opera House