final artists/architects
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becca_russo on May 31, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 lee krasner | -pollocks partner: she gave up painting to support his career -"The seasons"-represented as her new freedom (Pollock had just died, no longer had to worry about him and his career) |
| mark rothko | -his work focuses more on color and emotions from the color, piece induce contemplation and feelings (loneliness and isolation) -lavender and mulberry (color field painting) |
| jason pollock | -he is connected to surrealism, but different in the fact that he does not go back an make changes, his images are raw |
| marcel duchamp | -conceptual art |
| wassily kandinsky | -formed der blaue reiter (the blue rider) art group |
| robert smithson | -related to earthworks -spiral jetty 1970 |
| joseph beuys | -related to performance art -how to explain pictures to a dead hare -"even a dead animal preserves more intuition than some human beings" -saw rabbits as a lightforce for nature |
| andy warhol | -related to pop art -marilyn diptych -marilyn being repeated makes her and object -fact that it's a diptych shows marilyn as being a religious aspect, people worshipped her |
| constantine brancusi | -associated with abstract sculpture -"the newborn" -egg lookin thing |
| hannah hoch | -associated with dada -cut with the dada kitchen knife |
| pablo picasso | -Picasso wanted to break away from realism, he was influenced by African art, many people hated his paintings |
| barbara hepworth | -related to modern sculpture -"Forms in Echelon" -Unit One Group -Biomorphic shapes -Handcrafted objects that had surrealist influences -Many of her sculptures have holes to let air and light through -Wants eyes to move around the form, use own imagination |
| alexander calder | -related to modern sculpture -"Lobster trap and fish tail" -Mobile -Abstract shapes that look like fish |
| piet mondrian | -De Stijl -"Composition with yellow, red, and blue" -Theosophy: 1.Greek for "knowledge of god" 2.Aimed to develop a direct experience of the divine 3.Theosophical society 1875 4.M.H.J Schoenmaeker, 1915 |
| mied van der rohe | -international style -seagram building -represented designs for the present and the future |
| jeff koons | -"pink panther" -makes art that will attract viewers -art comes from pop art era -uses iconic images in his art -adds color to make it cartoon like -string of puppies -he likes when people look at his stuff and say "what the hell" -michael Jackson and bubbles |
| richard serra | -fulcrum -Considered by many to be one of the most famous sculptures of today -studied painting at yale, took trip to Europe and decided he wanted to do sculpture -moved to new york and was influenced by minimal art -"titles arc" |
| barbara kruger | -related to feminist art -puts together ads and words -man made and natural materials -meanings ambiguous, interpreted in many ways -many of her works has angry words -very often involves women in art |
| james lunas | -"the artifact piece" -the issues affecting native Americans in us -work documents native Americans being like an artifact -startled viewers, because it is him lying in the box, title on piece explain scars on his body, how he got them being native American, gives people a sense of native American culture being real -shattering idea that Indians are fake, by being on display |
| kara walker | -"darkytown rebellion" -silhouettes -as viewers, we are inserted into the piece, our own shadow goes on wall -connects us to our history of racism, oppression, masaquere -makes it real for us -a lot of her art pushes boundaries and makes people uncomfortable to look at |
| dale chihuly | -"the sun" -symbol, representation of the movement and excitement of the sun -individual pieces of glass into a core |
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