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Abstract Expressionism dates and characteristics |
Dates: 1950's -Flat, large -Embodies Greenburg's ideas of modernist painting -"it is what it is" (paint) -Artists were serious about it -Size related to importance |
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Abstract Expressionism specific work example |
Jackson Pollock- Autumn Rhythm |
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Neo Dada dates and characteristics |
Dates: 1950's -Found object collage -Breaking down banners of High vs. low art -Context plays a role in art -open ended (polyvalent) |
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Neo Dada specific work example |
Robert Rauschenberg- Odalisk -A combine -Found objects & Imgs -Alludes to tv, magazines -Advertisements closer to people |
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Situationist International dates and characteristics |
Dates: 1960's -Opposed conformity -Art to promote social change -Against hierarchal powers -Not concerned with design -critiquing society and art world |
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Situationist International specific work example |
Debord and Asger- Naked city -Cut up map of Paris -"Psycho geography" -Divided by feeling -Some areas larger than others -NO one owns your mind |
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Pop art dates and characteristics |
Dates: 1960's -everyday objects -"popular" art- common to everyone -synonymous with homogenizing American culture -theme of consumerism -"Keeping up with the Joneses" |
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Pop art specific work example |
Marilyn Monroe- Andy Warhol -celebrities packaged like commodities -unnatural colour -morbid quality (made after her death) -People wanted to be like the image of her, not the real person |
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Conceptual art dates and characteristics |
Dates: 1960's -value of time, complexity, mimicry -influenced by Duchamp -Thinking about what things really are (i.e. shapes, paint,) -Semiotics -communicating ideas |
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Conceptual art specific work example |
5 words in green neon-Joseph Kosuth -It is literally what it is -Influenced by Duchamp -Used commercial, common materials -aesthetically neutral |
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Minimalism dates and characteristics |
Dates: 1970's -repetition, non representational, simple geometric shapes -"last gasp of modernism" -Not pretending to be anything -Each medium does one job -Emphasis on forms -Very rigid -Attention to materials |
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Minimalism specific work example |
Untitled-Donald Judd-1965 -about materials -no other meaning -rigid geometry -One medium -Industrial material |
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Photorealism dates and characteristics |
Dates: 1970's -Hyper realistic paintings -Opposite of minimalism -Very representational -Great level of detail -Colourful -Brush strokes don't call attention to themselves -Tricking the eye |
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Photorealism specific work example |
Linda-Chuck close -flat -not glamorous -About the mundane -hyper real |
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Early feminist art dates and characteristics |
Dates: 1970's and 80s -Around 1st and 2nd waves -About elevating traditional "feminine" qualities (i.e. nature, collaboration) -celebration of women (biologically and in socialized norms) -giving female subjects a voice -Lots of vaginas |
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Early feminist art specific example |
Your gaze hits the side of my face-Barbara Kruger -critiques objectification of women in advertising -critiques beauty ideals -references "classical sculptures -female subject a voice -Direct message to males -Functions like an ad -An anti ad |
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Big ideas for essay questions |
-Greenburg: His influence, following and reacting against him -Influence of Duchamp -Systems of power manifesting in art |