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Art Final
Conceptual Art, Architecture, POMO
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
12/17/2008

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Raoul Hausmann
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DADA- sculptor, collages
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Hannah Hoch
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DADA- collages- political subject matter
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Joseph Beuys
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DADA- uses art to heal personally and universally WOLF- i like america and america likes me
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Marcel Duchamp
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DADA- most important of 20th century
fountain urinal art is the artists INTENT
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John Cage
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FLUXUS-classical musician
"there is no such thing as silence"
keyboard with no keys, audience is music
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Yoko Ono
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FLUXUS-classical musician bring us in direct encounter with ourselves, ladder piece with "yes"
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Nam June Paik
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FLUXUS- first to use video film and TV monitors TV Buddha, difficult to tell truth from false
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Andy Warhol
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POP ARTIST- most well known, serigraphy/silkscreen -making multiple copies. wanted people, color, and beauty. questioned original
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Jasper Johns
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POP ARTIST- 3 flags, encausted images
is this image or is it real?
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Roy Litchenstein
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POP ARTIST-paints with dots, cartoons
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Robert Raushenberg
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POP ARTIST- collaged silkscreen
work in gap between art and life
combined with texts and mass media
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Le Corbusier
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ARCHITECT(international style)- white washed, homes are machines for living
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Louis Sullivan
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ARCHITECT- wainwright building-1st skyscraper
used steel grid internal structure
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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ARCHITECT- sullivan's student, reiterates natural environment, designed everything by hand, cantilevered-overhangs supported with concrete, prairie style
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Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
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ARCHITECT(international style)-german pavillion, glass, stilts, true skyscrapers
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Frank Gehry
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POMO ARCHITECT- best known Disney Hall Weissman Art Museum-Minneapolis
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Niepce
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PHOTOGRAPHER- first fixed image of a frenchman
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Matthew Brady
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PHOTOGRAPHER- civil war photographer
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Alfred Stieglitz
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PHOTOGRAPHER- turned into a fine art, abstracting images, cloud series
married to Georgia O Keefe
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Ansel Adams
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PHOTOGRAPHER- zone system- best known
rich velvety blacks next to highlight whites
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Dorothea Lange
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PHOTOGRAPHER- payed artists to take photos and document
cropped scenes
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Robert Smithson
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EARTHWORKS- Spiral Jetty, manipulates nature, eventually art goes back into the nature-ephemeral,links humans and nature
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Christo and Jeane Claude
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EARTHWORKS- used parachutes and wrapped buildings
consider real work the PROCESS
drawings, permits, photos, videos and books are all thats left
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Nacncy Holt
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EARTHWORKS- links with constellations
manipulates environments and frames what we want to see, links humans with ancient predecessors
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Walter De Maria
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EARTHWORKS- lightening field, controls a piece of nature
sublime-horrible beauty
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Wolfgang Laib
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EARTHWORKS- brings natural materials indoors, gathers materials outside, pollen
minimal design and color
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Jim Denevan
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EARTHWORKS- draws in sand with stick
will be washed away, free hand
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Andy Goldsworthy
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EARTHWORKS- uses materials only found on site, do not last, reclaimed by nature, documents with photos,mid summer snow ball
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Bill Viola
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INSTALLATIONS and video tapes, the greeting-changed perception of something that happens all the time, the visitation inspired greeting
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Mierle Laderman Ukeles
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CONCEPTUAL/PERFORMANCE/INSTALLATIONS- connects the trash with the viewer, touch sanitation, landfill, parade with trash trucks
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Maya Lin
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ARCHITECT AND ARTIST- college girl made the vietnam veterans war memorial, civil rights memorial
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