Contemporary Art Final

Artist who valued transience and change, key figures include Eva Hesse, Lynda Benglis

Process Art was a continuation of Minimalism's strict clarity of forms

Which artist was associated with Color Field painters

Postmodern artist were at times criticized for being too inventive and creative

Name given to a group of Italian artist who favored everyday materials to create their works

The artists of the Nouveau Realism movement aimed to confront which areas of culture?

MATCH THE ARTIST: Language / Semiotics

When an artist takes something for his/her/their own use, typically without permission

Cindy Sherman

3 artist, Sandra Chia,Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente: Italian counterpart of Neo-Expressionism

an artwork composed of three dimensional objects either manufactured or natural, often junk

a framework for a sculpture

Which of the following is the title of a work by the New York-based artist Faith Ringgold

In Stealing Beauty, this artist and his family "lived" in Ikea rooms at the stores

a type of performance that involved using one's body, Marina Abramovic and Ulay worked on this

tendency of Western cultures to emelulate techniques found in so called "primitive" cultures

Post Painterly Abstraction

MATCH THE ARTIST: Racial Politics

Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns were rivals

The identity of the members of the Guerrilla Girls was made public in the late 1980s

artist style changed over his career some gestural and abstract while others are based on photo

style tended to produce works with elusive or underlying meanings artist such as Donald Sultan

Which of the following is true of Judy Chicgo's Dinner Party

Op Art

MATCH THE ARTIST: Institutional critique

Fauve means "Wild Beast"

The identity of the Guerrilla Girls is unknown

distorted projection or drawing that looks normal when viewed from a particular point

An artwork consisting of two painted or carved panels meant to be shown together

Who were some of the artists associated with CoBrA

The American architect is sometimes referred to as the "father of postmodernism"

representation or imitation

A group of representational artists whose works emphasized the grotesque

Many of Josef Sudek's photos were taken from a tiny studio window while Germans occupied Prague

His work melded (his own)softcore porn, art historical masterpieces, and commonplace objects

what is grisaille

The meaning of visual images whether conveyed directly or by symbols

Pop artists and the Nouveau Realisme rejected prior conventions for making art following WW2

Which Pop artist purportedly ate Campbell's soup every day for lunch over twenty years

Form of art guided by emotion and intuition rather than rational systems of composition

The United States government was quick to respond to the AIDs epidemic

what is assemblage

Born in Dublin this figure painter works with disturbing content such as screaming and carcass

What are the two modes of Abstract Expressionism

Term invented by Pierre Restany that referred to works by artist Yves Klein with blue naked

The founders of the Feminist Art Program are Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago

Mountains and Sea was this artist first "staining" work

2003 this artist made a work that involved a collector who paid close to $20,000 to film porn

artist created "shot reliefs" paintings made using a pistol to explode bags of paint

Photorealists painters often copied certain visual anomalies resulting from the curved lens

A large scale work for which the surface of the earth os the medium

"In this instant, I was sculpture," said this artist referring to a his piece where he was shot

Born in Brooklyn, this artist studied under Hans Hofmann and later married Jackson Pollock

Cubism resulted solely from Picasso's innovations

artist and co-curator of the show "information" at the MoMA in NY, Created One and Three Chairs

Which artist's work entitled Homage to New York (1960) was designed to self destruct

In the 1980s, the Postmodern Artist

artists were interested in transforming the undervalued and underrepresented artworks

term for a set of principles developed by Piet Mondrian, specifies limited primary colors

This art analysis approach prioritizes color, composition and visual form above meaning

Inspired by the Situationist International, which international group believed art and life

what is naturalism

an approach to art that emphasizes likeness to observable nature

Who painting F-111, 1965 a painting associated with Pop Art that is 10 feet tall x 86 feet long

Artists associated with which of the movements mined popular culture for Imagery?

Which term was first used by Theo van Doesburg to describe a form of geometric abstraction?

Social Realism and Regionalism were the main art styles in the United States before Absract Exp

The 1960's was a decade of peace and tranquility within the United States

The National Endowment for the Arts

Giorgio Morandi mostly painted portraits of his friends and family

Impressionism

Picasso's friend, George Braque, said it was"as if someone drinking kerosene and spitting fire"

Born in Argentina, published the white manifesto about art made with new materials like neon

term used for an area of thick paint or actual texture within a painting

During the 1980s the art market was failing

What are the two modes of Abstract Expressionism?

Concrete Art

Born in Dublin, Ireland this self taught figurative painter made works with disturbing content

This artist declined her invitation to join the Fluxus Group, her performances emulated beliefs

Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial was not well received at first

Charlotte Moorman was arrested in New York City in 1967 for a collaboration with

What were the dominant style(s) of painting in the United States before Abstract Expressionism?

what is monochrome

MATCH THE ARTIST: Time

Founder and longtime editor of Aperture magazine,their photos paralleled Abstract Expressionist

This German artist worked with materials like latex, rubber tubing, and fiberglass, died at 34

Who painted Christina's World- a scene of the Maine landscape and one of the artist's neighbors

name given to a group of Italian artist who preferred using everyday objects to create pieces

Hard Edge Painting

movement signified a break with the restrictions of modernism and included artists Jenny Holzer

group of artist were intersted in theoretical application of appropriation

an art movement or style characterized by soft colors and curvy lines with many depictions

Minimalism

Pop Art

Nam June Paik and Bruce Nauman were early adopters of video art

Sherrie Levine made watercolor and gouache paintings that were reproductions of others works

artist whose paintings contained themes of cosmic conflict and renewal

Many of the German Neo Expressionist artist were Nazi symphathizers

Body Art

A pioneering American sculptor who worked often with steel and other industrial materials

In Seedbed, this artist masturbated underneath a ramp inside a gallery

MATCH THE ARTIST: Feminism

Who were sorme of the artists associated with CoBrA?

photographer who was interested in flat patterns and textures seen in graffiti and posters

After WW2 almost all new buildings were erected in the International Style until Postmodernism

The Abstract Expressionist were never influenced by Surrealism, Cubism, and Expressionism

A large scale artwork which the surface of the earth is the medium

Which of the following descriptions applies to artist who were influenced by Existentialism?

theatrical events that were created by artists in the 1950s and 60s

His work emulate paintings from the 16th and 17th century in Northern Europe, but eroticized

This British artist who lived at least part time had a swimming pool as a recurrent theme

The process for adding shaded or tinted areas made up of dots for reproduction by line engravin

Approach to art analysis that emphasizes color composition and form over other aspects

In Renaissance and later art, depictions of an idyllic place of rural peace and simplicity

Jean Debuffet wanted to create works of art that violated good taste

Feminist Art Program

Sol LeWitt believed that the idea was the most important aspect of a work of art

the first african american artist to represent the USA at the Venice Biennale in 1997

Easel painting had a resurgence in popularity during the 1970s and 1980s

which artist associated with Nouveau Realism created a machine that produced 40,000

Before Christo and Jeanne Claude wrapped their first building, Christo had been wrapping items

The Post Minimalists had a unified style

artist series of works called Untitled (Cowboy), he showed the protagonist of tv cigarette ads

Artist of Nouveau Realisme movement aimed to confront culture that believed to cause the war

He is often credited with being the leader of the American Neo-Expressionist

Surrealism