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Contemporary Art Now (M) - Artists
for Midterm Exam
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
10/05/2012

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Arshile Gorky
Definition
• 1904-1948
• Armenian American Painter
• seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism
• his works were speculated to have been informed by suffering and loss he experienced of the Armenian Genocide
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Barnett Newman
Definition
• 1905-1970
• American artist
• major figure in Abstract Expressionism
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Willem De Kooning
Definition
• born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Dutch American)
• Abstract Expressionist artist
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'Paul' Jackson Pollock
Definition
• 1912-1956, Died in car accident
• influential American painter
• major figure of abstract expressionism
• uniquely defined style of drip painting
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Alberto Burri
Definition
• 1915-1995
• Italian
• abstract painter & sculptor
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Bruce Conner
Definition
• 1933–2008
• American artist
• works in assemblage, film, drawing,sculpture, painting, collage, and photography, among others
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Robert Rauschenberg
Definition
American painter and graphic artist
early works anticipated pop art movement
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Jasper Johns
Definition
American contemporary artist
primarily painting and printmaking
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Yves Klein
Definition
French artist
important figure in post-war European art
leading member of French artistic movement Nouveau réalisme (founded 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany)
Invented his own color 'Yves Klein Blue'
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Piero Manzoni
Definition
Italian artist
ironic conceptual art
Influenced by Yves Klein
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Kazuo Shiraga
Definition
avant-garde Japanese artist
rejects principles of pictorial composition, harmony and representation
mud
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Allan Kaprow
Definition
American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer performance artist
develop the "Environment" and "Happening" (late 1950s and 1960s)
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Willem de Ridder
Definition
Nederlands
Fluxus
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Yoko Ono
Definition
Japanese artist, author, and peace activist
work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking
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Carolee Schneeman
Definition
American visual artist,
discourses on the body, sexuality and gender.
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Donald Judd
Definition
American artist
minimalism
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Eva Hesse
Definition
Jewish German-born American sculptor
pioneering materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics
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Richard Tuttle
Definition
American postminimalist artist
small, subtle, intimate works
makes use of scale and line
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Jannis Kounellis
Definition
born 1936 in Greece
He studied Athens until 1956 and then in Rome
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Michelangelo Pistoletto
Definition
Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist
main representative of the Italian Arte Povera
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Ed Ruscha
Definition
American artist
Pop art movement
painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film lives and works in California
exhibited at the Ferus Gallery
deals with the everyday
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On Kawara
Definition
Japanese conceptual artist
living in New York City since 1965
Venice Biennale in 1976.
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Sol Lewitt
Definition
American
movements - Conceptual art and Minimalism
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