modern art vocab (unit 10?)

Appropriation

the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them

SAMO

a graffiti tag originally used on the streets of New York City from 1978 to 1980. Same old Shit

abakan

abstract woven hangings suggesting organic spaces as well as giant pieces of clothing made by magdalena abakanowizc

kitsch

art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.

banal

so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring. Trite

machismo

an emphasis on male strength and dominance

nuyorican

Puerto Ricans born and/or raised in New York.

chucherias

spanish for trinkets

Deconstructivism

An architectural style using deconstruction as an analytical strategy. attempt to disorient the observer by disrupting the conventional categories of architecture. The haphazard presentation of volumes, masses, planes, lighting, and so forth challenges the viewer's assumptions about form as it relates to function.

silhouette

a drawing of the outline of an object

shibboleth

A word used to distinguish a foreigner from natives

la catrina

posada's gaudy skeleton

diptych

A two-paneled painting or altarpiece.

post-modernism

a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of "art."

pop art

art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.

Abstract Expressionism

An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors, lines and shapes. Gestural and Chromatic

Action Painting/Gestural Abstraction

a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.

Post-Painterly Abstraction

had a tighter pictorial control and a cool detached rationality. There was little evidence of the painter's hand.

Color Field Painting

a style of abstract painting characterized by simple shapes and monochromatic color

earthworks

artworks created by altering a large area of land using natural and organic materials. Earthworks are usually large-scale projects that take formal advantage of the local topography.