ART 333 Contemporary Art History - Final Exam

Chanel

- Audrey flack

- beauty is fading

- jewelry and art are physical temptations

Marilyn Monroe

- Warhol

- 2 panels

- celebrity worship

- person becomes product

6 Themes

time, place, identity, body, language, spirituality

the way things go

Rube Goldberg machine, plot relies on time

more love hours than can ever be repaid and the wages of sin

mike kelley, time, objects evoked memory

house with ocean view

marina abramovic, daily actions over time

better homes, better gardens

kerry James marshall, place, memories vs reality

broken pebbles scratched white

Andy Goldsworthy, site specific art

kitchen table series

carrie mae weems, how we deifine our identity

useless

tracey Moffatt, how identity was seen by others

thinner than you

maureen Conner, body comparison

leaning

maren hassinger, body interaction

white noise

Joseph grigely, written notes to deaf artist

still

Alison watt, spirituality, absent presence

for you

tracy emin, feminine handwriting in cathedral

focus of abstraction in Europe

beliefs, trauma, intangibles

what was abstraction of Europe influenced by?

post WWII devestation, realism seems irrelevant post war

sacking and red

Alberto burri, materials of bandages and wound covers

CoBra group

inspired by the art of children and mentally ill

art informel

German abstraction without intellectual baggage

lyrical abstraction

gestural, linear forms

tachisme

spontaneous brushwork

a letter to my son

asger jorn, family themes, inspired by children's art

stalingrad

asger jorn, despair of war referencing Guernica

questioning children

Karel appel, founder of CoBra, "begging children" poverty after war

it's all over the city

wols, fear and anxiety

painting

georges mathieu, painted live

untitled

georges mathieu, energy, aerial views

abstraction in Europe will later influence:

- post minimalism

- neo expressionism

- performance art

what is pop art

reaction against abstract expressionism with "low" subject matter

the independent group

artists in London challenging elitist culture

american pop

- life in the U.S.

- rejection of academic art

british pop

- academic art

- comedy of American life

I was a rich man's plaything

Eduardo paolozzi, themes of technology, pop culture, and consumerism

meet the people

Eduardo paolozzi, consumerism

just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?

Richard hamilton, living room with crammed logos, consumerism Adam and Eve

whaam!

roy Lichtenstein, benday cmyk printing, dramatic scene but detached because it's comics

drowning girl

roy Lichtenstein, damsel in disrtress, contemporary beauty standards

I...I'm sorry

roy lichtenstein, unclear apology, blurred lines between painting and printing

house III (high museum of art)

roy lichtenstein, optical illusion

valentine

Evelyne axell, zipper, toy helmet, first female European artist to embrace pop art

atomic kiss

Joan rabascall, sensual myth of Hollywood women, glamour hides fear of war

tomato soup can

Andy Warhol, art should be mass produced

beef noodle (19c)

Andy warhol, art should be mass produced

green Marilyn

Andy Warhol

brillo boxes

Andy warhol

superman

Andy warhol

independent group

blurring lines of art and design, pop culture and high culture

who did the this is tomorrow exhibit in London?

independant group

buffalo

pauline boty, relationship between women and pop culture, sexually and politically charged

it's a man's world

pauline boty, gender roles in society

sack-o-sauce

Eduardo paolozzi, mass media images

fun house

richard Hamilton and John voelcke, this is tomorrow exhibit

on the balcony

Peter blake, combination of high art and low art

self portrait with badges

Peter Blake, American culture, old but wearing teenage clothing

st pepper's lonely hearts club band, Beatles album cover

Peter Blake, collab between musicians and artists

sublime

greatness and grandeur

a line made by walking

Richard long, linear timeline, documentary

corner mirror with coral

Robert smithson, "sometimes art is just cool"

spiral jetty

Robert smithson, ancient symbol not always visible always changing color

prominent earthworks artist

Andy Goldsworthy

silhuetas series

ana mendieta, cuban-american, presence vs absence, regeneration, rituals, religion

earth room

Walter de maria, ROOM OF DIRT🔥

lightning field

Walter de Maria, steel posts, experienced over time at lodging site

sun tunnels

Nancy holt, aligned to frame sun during summer and winter solstices

let's define happenings

late 1950s, involved audience, dismantling definition of "art"

fluxus

1960s group engaged audiences in active experiences

18 happenings in 6 parts

allan Kaprow, ideas of chance, encounters, never the same

yard

scattered tires to jump on

4'33"

John cage, composer of SILENCE

the anthropometrics of the blue period

yves klein, nude women as "living paintbrushes"

household: woman licking jam off of a car

allan Kaprow, absurdity of consumerism

eat

allan Kaprow, unusual meal involving yelling

cut piece

Yoko ono, cut off pieces of clothing, women as passive in art

meat joy

Carolee Schneemann

- performers covered in paint crawling on the floor in fish, meat, and poultry

- women's control over sexuality

catalysis III

Adrian piper, biracial female

- walked through NYC wearing "wet paint" sign

- boundaries of what is socially appropriate

mythic being

Adrian piper, filmed through NYC

how to explain pictures to a dead hare

Joseph bueys, held hare carcass in arms coated in honey (life) and gold leaf (wealth) with one iron foot

I like America and America likes me

Joseph beuys, live coyote in gallery, wrapped in animal fat and felt

five day locker piece

chris burden, in locker for 5 days with 5 gallon water container and container for urine

shoot

chris burden, intentionally shot by friend, bystander effect

relation in time

ulay and marina abramovic, 17 hours connected by hair that is their bond

pluralism

- 60s-70s

- art, politics, and culture merge

- social and political

conceptual art

- rejects heroism of pollock

- includes women

- concept is most important

standing open structure block

sol leWitt, created concept, assistants carried out product

wall drawing 88

sol leWiitt, created concept, others carried out product

wall drawing 164

sol dewitt, created concept, others carried out product

one and three chairs

Joseph kosuth, chair, photo of chair, and definition

which is most accurate?

an oak tree

Michael Craig-martin, catholic background, not a glass of water, but an oak tree

merda d'artista

Piero Manzoni, produced 90 cans with ? inside, based on father's critique of his work

the act of drinking beer with friends is the highest form of art

tom Marioni, 16 friends to have a drink with him

the sound of ice making

Paul kos, 25 pounds of ice with 8 microphones, mimic press conferences during Vietnam war

art by telephone

walter de maria, if phone rings, answer it, phone never rang

WPA (Works Progress Administration)

41% of artists were female

harlem renaissance

recognition of women of color

woman artists in revolution

1969

women students and artists for black art liberation

1970

homage to my young black sisters

Elizabeth catlett, social justices hollowed to emphasize childbearing, "force of nature"

die

faith Ringgold, race riots, references Guernica, meant to represent fear of future

for the woman's house

faith ringgold, female inmates in prison, bi-racial children