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20th Century art final
artworks and keywords for the art history final
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History
Undergraduate 4
11/27/2010

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Naum Gabo, Construction for the Bijenkorf Building
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Alexander Calder, The Blue Comb
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Alberto Giacometti, Man Pointing
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Alberto Giacometti, Man Pointing
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Alberto Giacometti, Head of Diego
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Germaine Richier, The Devil with Claws
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César, Bird
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Marino Marini, Horse and Rider
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Giacomo Manzù, Cardinal
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Henry Moore, Reclining Figure
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Henry Moore, Shelterers in the Tube
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Henry Moore, Bird Basket
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Henry Moore, Draped Reclining Figure
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Barbara Hepworth, Two Forms
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Barbara Hepworth, Sea Form
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Barbara Hepworth, for squares for circles
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David Smith, The Rape
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David Smith, Blackburn: Song of an Irish Blacksmith
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David Smith, Agricola I
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David Smith, Tank Totem VII
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David Smith, Cubi VII
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Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, So Appealing?
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Richard Hamilton, $he
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Robert Rauschenberg, Interview
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Robert Rauschenberg, Bed
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Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram
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Robert Raushenberg, Persimmon
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Robert Rauschenberg, Mud Muse
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Jasper Johns, Flag
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Jasper Johns, Target with Plaster Casts
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Jasper Johns, False Start
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Jasper Johns, Ballentine Ale Cans
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Jasper Johns, End Paper
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Jim Dine, Five Feet of Colorful Tools
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Claes Oldenburg, The Store
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Claes Oldenburg, Giant Hamburger
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James Rosenquist, I Love You With My Ford
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James Rosenquist, F-111
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Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude
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Roy Lichtenstein, Hopeless
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Roy Lichtenstien, Whaam!
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Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Can
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Andy Warhol, Marilyn
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Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes
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Andy Warhol, Sleep
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Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli
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The Circus
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Calder Hosted this event to help pay for his work. • Wire circus, inspiration for his mobiles
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mobiles
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• Word was suggested by marshall Duchamp
• In French it means something that moves, and has a purpose
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phenomenology
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• the study of phenomena. The perception/consciousness of phenomena
• Husserl, founder of phenomenology
• Imagine you had never seen the world before
• Take one moment of consciousness, and analyze what consciousness really was
• Bracket out experience, know nothing of the world and see how we perceive something without any past knowledge
• The consciousness of consciousness
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Phenomenological reduction
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back to the basics, start at
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Noveaux Réalistes
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• European equivalent of pop art
• Used found objects to create sculpture-car parts etc.
• Already colorful, but weren’t only used because of a lack of supply
• Also commentary on consumerism etc
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chacmool
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Henry Moore saw a cast of it in Paris and was interested. Chicheniza is the original. Mayan sculpture, had a bowl that was used to put in the hearts of Mayans for sacrifices. He was interested in the angular shape of the sculpture.

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Alexander Archipenko
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• moore got inspired on doing holes on the human figure by Alexander Archipenko. He treated positive matter as negative space. Hepworth also used this technique.
• -Also like graham Sutherland, became a war artist.
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shelter drawings
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(henry moore) series of drawings recording the impression of the feeling of people waiting in the tubes.
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Cycladic Idols
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(tied to Barbara Hepworth) were usually made of marble, belonged from pre-classical period. Modern artists were attracted to these sculptures because they looked like cubist sculpture, but what they didn’t know was that these sculptures used to be painted with bright colors, especially on the face, which currently have blank faces. She was very attracted to these sculptures she used a lot of marble and went to Italy to study the carving of marble.
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The Terminal Iron Works
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David Smith had a studio in New York
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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BARBARA HEPWORTH was given this distinction, a female form of knighthood.
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Bolton Landing
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David Smith worked there in northern New York. He had a lot of space in this place, had no fear of working on a large space. Starts working with steel. Made the first welded iron in the United States.
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three-dimensional drawings
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David Smith believed sculpture and drawings were connecting. The steel becomes like line and space. Very surrealist.
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Lawrence Alloway
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important british critique, first one to use the term “pop” coming from popular. These artitsts were reacting to a new meaning of culture, new form of art. What does society do?
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Just what is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, So Appealing?
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collage used for an exhibition, represents the future. Contains the “ideal couple”. The tootsie pop was very revolutionary, because candy didn’t have advertisement, you just bought it from a glass jar and pour it on a brown paper bag.
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Man,. Machine and Motion--
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Futuristic exhibition, focusing on technology.
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IG (Independent group)
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Richard Hamilton became member of this group, which Lawrence alloway was also part of. Focused on contemporary art.
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this is tomorrow
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another futuristic exhibition. Richard Hamilton made a collage for this exhibition.
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John Cage
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experimental composer. At the time, pop artists were called neo-dadists. He was into zen budist ideas. Focus into things into an non elitist way.
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Black Mountain college
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Robert Rauschenberg Went to this college in North Carolina after coming from Paris. One of the biggest colleges of art in the United States.
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theater piece #1
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(rauchenburg) performance like dada, took place in Black Mountain College. Had elements of randomness that Cage appreciated, he gave a lecture on top of a ladder.
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Merce Cunningham
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Rauchenberg made designs for merce cunningham’s dance company, like assemblages. Theater is the most demanding and purest form of art, Rauchenberg said. Also said that the individual is the media.

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the GI bill
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introduced a whole generation of men who came out of the war with no education of any career. All of the American pop artists went to school with the GI bill. He was taking a risk by using the government’s money to have a career in art. This also made universities to have more art departments.
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Matson Jones
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company of Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, worked to arrange and assemble windows of stores. Created in 1955, he ran out of canvas, so used objects from his house, including a pillow and a quilt.
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The Flatbed Picture
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persimmon is an example of a flatbed picture. Rauschenburg says that the flatbed picture is like the front page of a newspaper, because there is a bunch of information in the same space and it is not consistent. He is drawing a whole bunch of different sources.
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EAT
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Experiments for art and technology. Raushenberg was a part of this group. Thought about how technoscience related to art.
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encaustic
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Jasper Jones decides to use a technique that he did not invent, but nobody really uses. It’s an ancient technique. Paint mixed with wax. Made a black and white collage and then painted on top of it.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Austrian philosopher. Talked about language and how meanings are perceived. Talks about problems conveying as an artist. Argued that we have a fundamental problem when we communicate. Communicate a color,
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Allan Kaprow
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• was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years.
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happenings
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• A happening is a performance, event or situation meant to be considered art, usually as performance art. Happenings take place anywhere (from basements to studio lofts and even street alley ways), are often multi-disciplinary, with a nonlinear narrative and the active participation of the audience.
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Claes Oldenburg created his own country, had all the statistics, the politics, history, custums, exports, etc. Kept detailed notebooks about this country, made illustrations. He created this country when he was 7 years old.

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Oldenberg created an alternate ego called ray gun to describe himself, like a second personality. Ray Gun would go to galleries and write notes, Ray Gun would also write poems. Ray Gun was more outspoken than Oldenberg himself, had stronger opinions.

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Ben Day Dots
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similar to pointilism, comic style
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Ferus Gallery
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1962 major breakout for warhol, displayed campells soup cans. Exhibition in Los Angeles.
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Valerie Sonas
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was an actress of one of warhols films who shot him and left him multiple scars.
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Jean DuBuffet, Childbirth
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Jean Dubuffet, Corps de Dame
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Jean Dubuffet, The Old Man of the Beach
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Jean Dubuffet, Exchange of Views
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Alberto Giacometti, Annette in the Studio
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Balthus, Nude in Front of a Mantel
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Graham Sutherland, Thorn tree with Crown of Thorns
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Francis Bacon, Study After Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
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Francis Bacon, Two Figures
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Francis Bacon. Three Studies for a Crucifixion
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Renato Guttuso, The Masssacre
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Asger Jorn, The Green Ballet
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Karel Appel, Questioning Children
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Karel Appel, Mouse on a Table
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Corneille, The Eyes of the Beloved and the Big Sun
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Sartre
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No Exit – trapped in a space you cannot get out of. Three characters trapped in hell in this room, a man desires a woman, she is a lesbian, she desires another woman who desires the man.
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Sergei Eisenstein
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The Battleship Potemkin – movie inspires Frances Bacon. Attracted to the Odessa steps scene, where a woman comes on screen with blood on her eye and her glasses smashed. Her mouth open in absolute terror.
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The Screaming Pope series
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Valasquez shows the pope as a ruler, who is strong, the most content person in the world. Does the pope have a moment of crises and wonder about the meaning of the world?
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Cobra
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three artists, came from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam: Asger Jorn (Co), Corneille (Br), Karel Appel (A)
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Leo Steinberg
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art critic (tied to Rauschenberg)
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andy warhol's breakout
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Ferus Gallery
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barbara hepworth's 'reward'
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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