Contemporary Art Test Two
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Nila
Maid
Jose Gamarra Nightfall 1993
Kenny Scharf Junkle 1992
Pinched ball
Forward Retreat
Naked Man
Decorative Engine
Souvenir II
2x4 landscape
Rubble, Bolin
Gift Noland 1961-62
Organization Gorky 1936
Acconci Seedbed 1972
Claus Oldenburg Clothespin 1976 Cor-ten and stainless steel Public Art
Terms Academic Action Painting Automatism Avant-garde collage color theory degenerate Entartete Kinst Existentialism Gestural Modernism non-objective non-representational pentimeni primitivism readymade salon vanguardism
Alison Watt Winter Nude 1992
Sidney Goodman Waste Management 1987-90
Robbie Grill Cleansing
Hansel and Gretel
Black Kites, Orozco
Double Tail, Orozco
Falling Bough, Ford
Hanging Construction Alexandr Rodchenko1920
Noon Lee Krasner 1947
Flag Jasper Johns 1954-55
White Paintings Rauschenberg 1950
Mural Jackson Pollock 1943
Lavender Mist Jackson Pollock1950
Andre Equivalents I-VIII 1966
Andy Warhol Empire 1964
Robert Ryman Untitled 1958
Dara Birnbaum Technology/Transformation (Wonder Woman 1978-79
Morris Louis Tet 1958 synthetic polymer on canvas Post-Painterly Abstraction
Jean DuBuffet Childbirth (L'acccouchement) 1944 Oil on Canvas Art Brut
Maman Louise Bourgeois Spider sculpture
Nam June Paik Electro-Symbio-Phonics for Phoenix 1992
Hiding in the City
Dove of Peace, Banksy
Golf Ball Roy Lichtenstein 1962
Onement 1 Barnett Newman 1948
The Store Claes Oldenburg 1961
Marilyn Monroe's Lips Warhol 1962
Eric Fischl Bad Boy 1981
Mary Kelly Post-Partum Document 1973-79
Adrian Piper Catalysis IV 1970-71
Smithson Non-Site Franklin NJ 1968
Baldessari The Pencil Story 1972
David Smith Tanktotem V 1953-56
Judd Untitled (Wall Stack) 1970
Arman "Le Plein" (Full Up) 1960 Accumulated trash At Galerie Iris Clert Nouveau Realisme
Maya Lin Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1981-83 black granite Public Monument (Minimalism)
Bruno Civitico Allegory of the Senses 1992
A cabin boy to Barbary
Lui Bolin Rubble. Phonebooth. Artillery. Graffiti.
Gabriel Orozco (real skull) "Black Kites"
Erased De Kooning Drawing Rauschenberg 1953
Dawn's Wedding Chest Louise Nevelson 1960
Robert Rauschenberg skyway 1964 neo-dada
Hans Haacke MOMA Visitor's Poll 1970
Giovanni Anselmo Structure that Eats 1968
Joseph Kosuth One and Three Chairs 1965 Wood folding chair, mounted photograph of a chair, and photographic enlargement of a dictionary definition of "chair". Conceptual Art
BRIDGET RILEY Blaze 3 1963 Acrylic on board OP Art (Optical Art)
Jean Tinguely Homage to New York 1960 Performance photographs of self-destruction Garden of Museum of Modern Art Kinetic Art (Nouveau Realisme)
Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1872, oil on canvas Musée Marmottan, Paris * color theory, blue and orange are complimentary. *people didn't view this as complete
Influences 1919- Stock Market Crash 1920-9030s -Great Depression 1945 - Settle out of WW2, start of NY art school (artists working together)
Marylin Minter NY photography/realistic painting, fashion and shoe, capture the grotesque glamour in fashion/shoes, contract with jimmy choo (marketing), water/liquid in motion, macro view(much detail of every grain of dirt). controversy=high end shoes in mud getting ruined
Diamond Warrior Michael Parks think futuristic angel
Wesley Burt from KCK drawing and printmaking works with massive black company concept art and illustration uses graphite and oils Graduated from Sumner Academy Created Sideswipe (from transformers) concept
Antony Gormley Case for an Angel II 1990
Walton Ford Large scale watercolors. Satirize colonialism.
Elizabeth Murray (general) Printmaker, draughtsman, American, died of lung cancer (2007), works in Guggenhiem Museum (how you know your famous)
Soft Fur Good Humor Bars Oldenburg 1963
Zen for Head Nam June Paik 1962
David Smith Tanktotem III, 1952 abstract expressionism
Alberto Giacometti The City Square 1948-49 Existentialism
Adrian Piper: Mythic Being Cruising for White Women in Harvard Square 1973
Dan Flavin Monument to V. Tatlin 1960s
Faith Ringgold The Flag is Bleeding 1967
Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, Sandra Orgel, Aviva Rahmani Absolutions Feminist Art Program 1972
Robert Mangold 1/2 Manila Curved Area 1967
Faith Wilding Womb Room (Crocheted room) Womanhouse 1972
David Hockney A Diver, Paper Pool 17 1978 Colored, Pressed colored paper pulp, twelve sheets Originally Independent Group (This is Pop Art)
André Masson, Figure, 1926-27, oil and sand on canvas, 18" x 10 1/2" *surrealism *dream "interpretation of dreams" *SIGMUND FREUD *Freud influenced them, there are 2 drives... sex and death *Technique: Psychoanalytical *Line making develops thoughts of w
René Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1928-29 Oil on Canvas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art *surrealism *Game theme *"penis?" *"this is a painting?"
Lucio Fontana italian painter 1930s-1960s, slashes through monochrome canvas, founder of spatialism, slash series (1949), destroy to create, worked also with neon light
Robbie Grille Cleans Mark Tansey monuments among rocks
Gabriel Orozco Mexican artist urban landscapes and everyday objects concept of infinity, philosophical problems, and politics explored
removing graffiti banksy ironic to what banksy does
Maya Lin American artist and architect. Didn't realize she was Chinese until later on in life.
Wegman On Set. Miss Mit. Cinderella w/Glass Slipper. Front Facade.
Contemporary art Art continues throughout time, most artists belong to multiple movements and still alive
Close Cover Before Striking (Pepsi Cola) Warhol 1962
The Avant-Garde Doesn't Give Up Asger Jorn 1962
Robert Barry Something that is taking shape.... 1969
Barbara Kruger Untitled (We Won't Play Nature to your Culture) 1983
Martha Rosler Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful Balloons 1969-72
Bruce Nauman Negative Space Under My Chair 1965-68
Yoko Ono Cut Piece 1965 (New York) and 1964 (Tokyo) Photographs of performance Fluxus (performance art)
4.19 Barnett Newman, Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachthani, the First Station, 1958, magna on canvas, 6' 6" x 5'" *abstract expressionism + color field
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1947, oil on canvas, ~47½" x ~35½" abstract expressionism + color field
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Oil on canvas 11' 5 1/2" x 25' 5 3/4 *analytical cubism (ALL PICASSO) *created after a innocent city was poisoned as a test *tradition, triangles divide sections *surrealism *small flower shows statement of peace
Andy Warhol american NY painter, print maker, filmmaker, leader of pop art, known for overstating pop culture in his work, through repetition (campbels) and color distortion on celebrity portraits(Marylin), made the mundane extraordinary and highlighted the sickness of a culture bred from commercialism
Double tail Gabriel Orozco looks like clay left on the floor.
Walton Ford (general) Known for large scale watercolors, Audubon's naturalist illustrations, meticulous watercolors, artwork in pieces (comment on looking as whole)
Richard Serra One Ton Prop: House of Cards 1969
Georges Seurat, A Sunday on the La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886, oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago * neo impressionism *simplified shapes *understands color theory
Yves Klein french artist 1940s - 1960s, photo collage, paint, aero works, pioneer in performance art, forerunner to minimalism, invented a deep blue color that he did a series of monochromes in, the void, anthropometries- applied paint with womens bodies (art and performance)
Liu Bolin (general) 36 years old from Shandong, China, camouflaged himself in his artwork
Mile of String Marcel Duchamp 1942, The First Papers of Surrealism
Tracey Emin YBA, neon scroll on wall of love notes, self-described feminist, but her artwork tends to objectify and offend women, works in craft art, quilts, interior furniture, tents, beds, (full of statements about sexuality)
My hands are my heart Gabriel Orozco clay molded with hands
Making a Work With One's Own Body: Material is Mud Kazuo Shiraga: 1955