AH Exam 4

Gorky, Aviation Mural, Newark Airport

• ID: 1935–36 / USA

• Medium: Oil mural

• Style: Post-War expressionism, Abstract Expressionism

• Iconography: Biomorphic forms, aviation imagery (airplane)

Context: WPA / Great Depression / transition to abstraction

de Kooning, Excavation

• ID: 1950 / USA

• Medium: Oil on canvas

• Style: Post-War expressionism, Abstract Expressionism (“all-over”)

• Iconography: Fragmented figures, chaos

• Context: Postwar anxiety / action painting

de Kooning, Woman I

• ID: 1950–52 / USA

• Medium: Oil

• Style: Post-War expressionism, Abstract Expressionism

• Iconography: Aggressive female form

Context: Gender tension / critique of ideal beauty

Pollock, Mural

• ID: 1943 / USA

• Medium: Oil

• Style: Post-War expressionism, Abstract Expressionism

• Iconography: Energetic abstraction

Context: Shift to large-scale gesture

Pollock, Number 1A

• ID: 1948 / USA

• Medium: Drip paint

• Style: Post-War expressionism, Abstract Expressionism

• Iconography: No subject (process-based)

Context: Artist gesture = meaning

Newman, Onement I

• ID: 1948 / USA

• Medium: Oil

• Style: Post-War expressionism, Abstract Expressionism

• Iconography: “Zip” line

Context: Spiritual abstraction / sublime

Jasper Johns, Flag

• ID: 1958 / USA

• Medium: Encaustic

• Style: Abstraction Pop Art

• Iconography: American flag

Context: Reality vs representation

Rauschenberg, Factum I & II

• ID: 1957 / USA

• Medium: Mixed media

• Style: Abstraction Pop Art

• Iconography: Repetition

Context: Questions originality

Lichtenstein, Hopeless

• ID: 1963 / USA

• Medium: Oil

• Style: Abstraction Pop Art

• Iconography: Comic woman / despair

Context: Mass media critique

Warhol, Brillo Boxes

• ID: 1964 / USA

• Medium: Silkscreen wood

• Style: Abstraction Pop Art

• Iconography: Consumer goods

Context: Art vs commodity

Warhol, Marilyn Diptych

• ID:1962 / USA

• Medium: Silkscreen

• Style: Abstraction Pop Art

• Iconography: Celebrity

Context: Death + fame

Frank Stella, Morro Castle, / Arundel Castle

• ID: 1958–59 / USA

• Medium: Paint

• Style: Abstraction Pop Art

• Iconography: Stripes

Context: “What you see is what you see”

 Donald Judd, Untitled (record cabinet)

• ID: 1962 / USA

• Medium: Industrial materials

• Style: Abstraction Pop Art

• Iconography: Boxes

Context: Reject illusionism

Eva Hesse, Accession II

• ID: 1967 / USA

• Medium: Steel + vinyl

• Style: Feminist and Performance Art

• Iconography: Organic repetition

Context: Feminist materiality

Judy Chicago, Dinner Party

• ID: 1979 / USA

• Medium: Mixed media

• Style: Feminist Art

• Iconography: Vaginal plates

Context: Women’s history

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #35

• ID: 1979 / USA

• Medium: Photo

• Style: Feminist and Performance Art

• Iconography: Female stereotype

Context: Male gaze critique

Ana Mendieta, Silueta Series

• ID: 1973 / USA

• Medium: Earth/body

• Style: Feminist and Performance Art

• Iconography: Body in nature

Context: Identity / exile

Yves Klein, Anthropometries

• ID: 1960 / France

• Medium: Performance/paint

• Style: Feminist and Performance Art

• Iconography: Body prints

Context: Body as tool

Janine Antoni, Loving Care

• ID: 1993 / USA

• Medium: Performance

• Style: Feminist and Performance Art

• Iconography: Hair painting

Context: Gender labor

Joseph Beuys, Coyote

• ID: 1974 / Germany/USA

• Medium: Performance

• Style: Performance art

• Iconography: Human + coyote

Context: American identity

Wright, Robie House, Chicago

• ID: Chicago / 1907–09

• Medium: Architecture

• Style: Prairie, 20th century Architecture

• Iconography: Horizontal lines

Context: American domestic design

Gropius, Bauhaus

• ID: Dessau / Germany / 1925–26

• Style: Modernism, 20th century Architecture

• Iconography: Glass + function

Context: Art + industry

Breuer, Whitney Museum

• ID: 1966 / USA

• Style: Brutalism, 20th century Architecture

• Iconography: Heavy geometry

Context: Anti-glass modernism

Rietveld, Schröder House

• ID: 1924 / NL

• Style: De Stijl, 20th century Architecture

• Iconography: Primary colors

Context: Abstraction in life

Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye

• ID: 1929 / France

• Style: International Style, 20th century Architecture

• Iconography: Pilotis

Context: Machine for living

Venturi, Vanna Venturi House

• ID: 1962 / USA

• Style: Postmodern, 20th century Architecture

• Iconography: Contradiction

Context: Against modernism

 Wright, Guggenheim, NYC

• ID: NYC / 1943–59

• Style: Organic, 20th century Architecture

• Iconography: Spiral

Context: Museum as experience

Smithson, Spiral Jetty

• ID: Utah / 1970

• Medium: Earthwork

• Style: Land Art, environmental/earth art; site specific art

• Iconography: Spiral

Context: Entropy

Tansey, Short History of Modern Painting

• ID: 1982 / USA

• Medium: Oil

• Style: Postmodern

• Iconography: Art history parody

Context: Critique modernism

Morimura, Portrait (Futago)

• ID: 1988–90 / Japan

• Medium: Photo

• Style: Appropriation

• Iconography: Reworked Olympia

Context: Identity / colonialism

Wiley, Napoleon

• ID: 2005 / USA

• Medium: Oil

• Style: Contemporary portraiture

• Iconography: Black hero

Context: Power + race

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Trade

• ID: 1992 / USA

• Medium: Mixed media

• Style: Native contemporary

• Iconography: Trade objects

Context: Colonial critique

Sonya Clark, Hair Craft

• ID: 2013 / USA

• Medium: Hair art

• Style: Identity art

• Iconography: Hair

Context: Black identity

Betye Saar, Aunt Jemima

• ID: 1972 / USA

• Medium: Assemblage

• Style: Black feminist

• Iconography: Mammy figure

Context: Racism critique

Gonzalez-Torres, Perfect Lovers

• ID: 1994 / USA

• Medium: Clocks

• Style: Conceptual

• Iconography: Two clocks

Context: AIDS / loss

Fairey, HOPE

• ID: 2008 / USA

• Medium: Poster

• Style: Street art

• Iconography: Obama

Context: Politics

Shonibare, Last Supper

• ID: 2012 / UK

• Medium: Installation

• Style: Postcolonial

• Iconography: Wax fabric figures

Context: Colonial identity