Details Title: Art Appreciation Final Description: art Appreciation Total Flash Cards: 47 Created: 12/13/2008 10:34:20		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Art/Design Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Dada Definition Organized in Zurich 1916 by Hugo Ball In the Cabaret Voltaire Banded together—writers, musicians, etc. Despised ‘high-art’ Loathed art dealers, collectors, galleries Believed art should derive from life Poked fun at high society and high art institutions Term Duchamp's fountain Definition The artist did not make it It is not a unique object It has no visual or aesthetic properties to make it art Its too commonplace and uncouth I am the artist and it is my intent that it is art Term Dada artists: Raoul hausmann and Hannah Hoch Definition Emphasis on 2-D art ->collage Development of graphic arts (design and printing) Their name for collage ->montage or phototage Term Fluxus Definition 1960 Believe art must emerge from daily life Flux-roman word meaning something is always shifting, changing, constantly moving. Term Yoko Ono Definition Isolates a sensory art of everyday life to bring us in direct encounter with the self. Wrote book of instructions for creating art. Ladder piece Term Definition Term Nam June Paik Definition First to use video film and TV monitors in his art Conceptual music Worked with Charlotte Moorman Term John Lage Definition Avant garde composer “there is no such thing as silence” Music is sound Term Joesph Beuys Definition I Like America and America Likes Me Shaman Uses art to heal both personally and universally Term Fluxus based: Installations Definition Use sculptural materials and other media to modify the way the viewer experiences a particular space. Performance pieces Involve time-based performances that may involve objects, sound, film Term Guerilla Girls Definition Performance based activist group Life and art merging Term Ancient systems and structures Definition Ancient building devices The pyramid Post and lintel construction (load bearing) The arch Cement The dome Term Flying buttresses Definition Make sure building doesn’t fall in Term Henry Hubson Richardson Definition The Marshall Field Warehouse Thick stone walls Load-bearing Height limited Arched windows Massive Giant bind on top to hide water system Term Two changes in technology altered architecture Definition High tensile strength steel (alloy) Use of reinforced concrete Term Frank Lloyd Wright Definition Used new technology of steel I-Beams and concrete to build deep overhangs called cantilevers. House should be integrated into its site and environment Wished to emphasize horizontality of Midwest Term 1st skyscraper Definition Louis Sullivan The Wainwright Building in STL Term Prairie Style Definition The Kaufman House Creek runs through house Guggenheim Museum Term international style Definition Horizontal/vertical plane structures Very clean and “pure” appearance White washing Term Villa Savoye Definition Le Corbusier Machines for living Uncomplicated Term The Bauhaus Definition Design school in Germany Industrial design Woodworking Weaving Based in craft tradition Craft indicates a link to function and to the system of master and apprentice Term Miles van der Rohe Definition Flees to U.S and brings International style True glass and steel skyscrapers Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago Seagram building, NYC Term characteristics of Modernism Definition Sleek design Geometric purity Everything derived from the “grid” White, sparseness Unadorned surfaces (lack of decoration) Cold stainless steel Term PoMo Post Modernism Definition A reaction against the minimalist tendency of modernism. Architects borrowed styles and motifs from past cultures, other architects + appropriation Term Characteristics of PoMo Definition Buildings are blocky Details playful Colorful Ornamentation Fluid and lyrical Term I.M. Pei Definition Louvre in Paris Term Gehry Definition The Disney Hall, titanium structures Term pop art Definition Popular culture, post war economic and population boom Term Andy Warhol Definition Serigraphy/silkscreen A printmaking technique that utilizes stencils that are either cut or burned into a screen. The ink is pushed through the screen using a squeegee. This is a process that creates multiple copies. Appropriated media images Term Jasper Johns Definition Flag Term Camera Lucida Definition early type of technology that influenced invention of cameras Term Camera obscura Definition dark room Term Niepce Definition 1st fixed image, 1826 8 hour exposure Term matthew brady Definition Civil war photography Took pictures of Lincoln Term What makes photography Definition Aperture controls light (opening in camera) Shutter speed Depth of field—controlled by aperture F stop Term Andre Kertesz and Ed Weston Definition Cropped scenes, close up views, and this created abstracted viewpoints Term Ansel Adams Definition Zone System Term What did the depression bring about in photography? Definition 1930’s U.S depression brought realism and documentary quality back into the field of photography. Walker Evans and Dorthea Lange Term Robert Smithson Definition Spiral Jetty Term Nancy Holt Definition Holes align with constellations Manipulating environment Frames what she wants you to see Ancient systems of star-gazing Term Walter De Maria Definition 400 stainless steel poles arranged in a regular grid formation over an area of land that is one square mile Term Wolfgang Laib Definition Spends months gathering “art” materials (pollen) Meticulously arranged indoor installations Will not last in nature Term Jim Denevan Definition Drawing Term Bill Viola Definition The Greeting, installed at Venice Biennale in 1995 Stations Room for st. john of the cross Jacopo de pontormo, the visitation Term Rauschenberg Definition used the technique of recombinant work or collage, in which various texts and image are combined or “recombined” in a discordant, nonsensical or random manner and involves the juxtaposition and transformation of imagery and often the appropriation of mass media. Perhaps the narrative develops based on the unfolding juxtaposition of images. Term Mierle laderman-Ukeles Definition Touch sanitation Her work collapses social boundaries we all adhere to in daily life Term Alfred Stieglitz Definition Turned a mechanical process into “fine art” He started simplifying by cropping images and isolating bold forms. Abstracting His cloud studies became the first fully abstracted photographs.