AA Finals Lesson 9

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True or False. Modern and Contemporary are considered synonymous

True

Modern art saw the digression of artists away from the past convention and traditions and toward _____

Freedom

What are modern artists commited to developing?

An original but representative language in which artists would draw the world in their own terms

True or False: Contemporary arts is still unfolding

True

What emergenced and declined in the 1970’s ?

The emergence of postmodernism and decline of clearer identified artistic movements

What is Contemporary art heavily driven by?

ideas and theories

One of the early movements that reeled after the war (1940-1960)

Abstract Expressionism

What does abstract expressionism take from?

Basic tenents of abstraction and combined with gestrural techniques, mark-making, and a rugged spontaneity in its visual articulation

Who are affiliated with abstract expressionism ?

New York painters

Two major styles that emerged from abstract expressionism

Action painting and the Color Fields

Underscored the process of creation int that it showed the physicality, direction, and most often the spontaneity of the actions that made the drips and strokes possible.

Action painting

Emphasized the emotional power of colors.

Color Fields

A type of art where creating energy is the center

op art (optical art)

What does op art rely on?

Creating an illusion to inform the experience of the artwork using color, pattern, and other pespective tricks that artists had on their sleeves.

Harnessing the currrent and direction of the wind.

Kinetic art

Gutai meaning

Which means embodiment or concreteness.

Gutai Art Association

Organization dedicated to Gutai

Founder of the Gutai Art Association

Yoshihara Jiro

Kazou Shiraga

Artist behind the “Challenge to the Mud”

Challenge to the Mud

An importance example of gutai. Art done by Kazuo Shiraga, writhing in a pile of mud. The shapes formed, and the state of the mud were left as is after his performance.

Minimalism

Extreme type of abstraction that favored geometric shapes, color fields, and the use of objects and materials that had an “Industrial” the sparse.

Pop Art

Art form driving inspiration, source, and even materials from commercial culture.

Postmodernism

Formalizes the critique toward modernism and its claim over art for the better of the twentieth century.

Contemporary Art

The most socially aware and involved form of art.

Neo-Pop Art

A postmodern art movement that emerged in the 1980s as a reaction to the Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 1970s

Photorealism

Drawings and paintings that are so immaculate in their precision that is starts to look like it is a photo without a direct reference to the artist who created it.

Conceptualism

Fights against the idea that art is a commodity.

Performance Art

The heart of this artwork is its idea or message, the audience may also be an accomplice to the realization of the work

Installation art

Immersive work where the enviroment or the space in which the viewer steps into or interacts with is transformed or altered

Earth Art

Considred “spin off of installation art”", the natural enviroment or a specific site or space is transformed by artists

Street Art

This art movement is related to graffiti, and is a by-product of the rise of graffiti in the 1980’s. Artworks created are not traditional in format but are informed by the illustrative, painterly and print techniques and even a variety of media