ART 312 FINAL EXAM

Hugo Ball, Zurich Dada

• Sound poems

• absurd, anti-traditional 

• they believed it defined norms, celebrating the irrational in times of war and death

John Heartfield, Berlin Dada

• Germany is no longer the beautiful country it was, celebration of xmas and the tree is now a swastika, against the nazis

• Photo montage

Marcel Duchamp, New York Dada

• Readymade, object which is pre-made not hand-made. Took a piece of plumbing and made it into an art form

• Concept or idea created by the artist, not about the skill. Whether you as the viewer agrees w the art 

Man Ray, New York Dada

• Goes against its original function, anti-art, iron was supposed to smooth clothes, but has nails in it

• Industrial mass produced object

The Degenerate Art Exhibition, WWII era

• Organized by the nazi party to show that modern art (jewish, homosexuals) was considered degenerate, immoral, and corrupt

• Modern art is immoral, ugly, and against German values of ethnic beauty and realism

Pablo Picasso, WWII era

• Bombing of innocents of the city of Guernica by the German airforce

• odd Because it was political

Meret Oppenheim, Surrealism

• Irrational, non-functional, but sensual and strange

• Juxtaposition, every day object rendered into something non-functional and weird

Andre Masson, Surrealism

• Automatism relies on the accidental and unconscious mind to create forms like doodling

• Glue and sand

Salvador Dali, Surrealism

• Transformation, hard to soft, making things melt

• Dreamlike, strange, unreal but very realistically painted

Rene Magritte, Surrealism

• The picture of things is not the same as the thing itself, representation isn’t a thing

• We often see images as being real

Frida Kahlo, Mexican Modernism

• Easel painting, oil on canvas

• The US factories, ford factories, pollution of Detroit versus Mexico’s ancient land of indigenous arts and plants

• Ratablos, miracle of saints, paint on tin, catholic tradition

Diego RIvera, Mexican Muralism

• Fourth factory in Detroit, true fresco, painted in Detroit’s major art museum

• Ford factory was a utopian place, workers united as a product of their labor, Rivera was a Marxist

• Rivera shows the workers in harmony at the factory, does not show the strike and issues of the Depression, humans unified by technology

David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican Muralisim

• US military, represented as the eagle, is killing indigenous Mexico, Mexican soldier shooting at the eagle

• Located in alvero street in Downtown LA, perceived as anti-american and makes a statement of American imperialism

James Van Der Zee, Harlem Renaissance

• African americans of Harlem

• Harlem Renaissance was for and about the Black people, New Negro movement

• Shows porpserous Black couple with their car, posing for Van Der Zee

Aaron Douglas, Harlem Renaissance

• Tubman was an emancipator, freeing slaves from the south through the underground railroad

• Blacks began slavery, fought for freedom, and aspired to education opportunities in the cities of the north

Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism

• Huge canvas on the floor, poured from paint cans, or dripped with sticks/big brushes

• Refers to the big gestures of the painting, layers and layers of motion of gesture, his action was like a dance

Andy Warhol, Pop Art

• Pop culture objects and people of the day

• Commercial process of silkscreen, not considered an art process of the time

Marisol Escobar, Pop Art

• Shows pop culture through the Kennedy family

• Marisol is using sculpture and painting techniques, whereas Warhol used commercial processes

• Jackie Kennedy as examining/critiquing her as a mother versus the individuality in Warhol’s art