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• Art by Jackson Pollock
• "Action Art".
• Splattered paint all over canvas
• no top, no bottom, no focal point
• Main center for new art movement moves to NY city where Pollock has made Abstact Expressionism the new rage

• "Green on Blue" by Rothko
• Color-Field Painting: large areas of color were more dominant than any particular shape
• studies psychological and spiritual effects of color
• meditative, large scale paintings

• "Two Calla Lilies on Pink" By Georgia O'Keefe
• enlarged forms based on natural
• harmonious

• "Christina's World" by Wyeth
• Tempera Paint
• Realistic art: imitates things in the world

• "Waterfall" by M.C. Escher
• Print, alters perspective, metamorphosis, complex geometry, endless cycles

• "Two Hundred Soup Cans" by Warhol
• Pop Art, mass media, repetitions bomard and desensitize us
• familiar commercial objects viewed as art

• Comic Image by Lichtenstein
• painting adapted from comic strips

• Giant Clothspin by Oldenburg
• enlarged outdoor sculptures
• make the object seem new to us

• untitled by Bridget Riley
• pattern & color repitition
• optical illusion

• Coca-Cola by Julian Beever
• sidewalk chalk drawings

• "Tourists" by Duane Hanson
• Trompe L'oeil: tricks the eye into believing it's the real thing
• new materials, trompe l'oeil sculptures

• "Statue for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial" by Frederick Hart
• Realistic Sculpture
• Built to make up for the simplicity of Maya Ying Lin's Vietnam memorial wall

• "Veitnam Memorial" by Maya Ying Lin
• Wall of names of those who fought in D.C.
• Caused controversy because it was TOO simplistic

• "Blue Umbrellas" by Christo

• "The Gates Project" by Christo
• Central park, New York
• Earth Art
• 7,503 Saffron sails hung from sixteen foot gates that coverd 23 miles of pathways
• Lasted 3 weeks
• 4 million people had visited it

created gunpowder drawings & was responsible for the Beijing Olympics fireworks

-Also responsible for "Head On"

• James Luna
• stereotyping
• exemplified the stereotypes of his spanish and indian cultures

• Magic Figure, African Art
• Zaire, long process of accumulation of materials (added to give owner supernatural power)
• function is determined by materials added

• Relinquary Figure, african art
• Wood covered with brass and copper
• Protects ancestor bones

• Grave Monument, Ivory Coast
• Terra cotta, attests to success in this world and like a letter of recommendation to the next world
• includes guardian figures and portraits of family and portrait of the deceased

• Skin Covered Female Crest
• Naturalistic
• wood covered with animal skin/honors young women after leaving the "fattening house" in preparation for marriage
• spirals represent their actual hairdo

• Sande Helmet Mask
• epitomy of female beauty
• Sande Association women wear for initiation ceremonies, funerals and meting out punishmen to memebers
• wearer's identity is secret

• Ndbele Mural Painting and Beadwork
• South Africa
• Bright geometric murals and beadwork by Nedbele women

• "Bear's Belly" by Edward Curtis
• Native American Photography

• Tlingit Totem Pole in Pioneer Square, Seattle
• Honors a Woman
• From Alaska

• Kwaguitl, Tsonqua Totem Pole
• in Seattle
• 12 feet tall

• Male Kangaroo- X-ray Painting
• Aboriginal Art
• Eucalyptus Bark
• Ancestral Being Manifest as Kangaroo

• Man's Love Story, dreaming
• Aboriginal Art
• Sacred Narrative Ancestral Journey

• Mortuary Sculpture, two young women
• Aboriginal art
• ceremonial sculpture with funerary body paint

• Red Horse Capture by John Buck
• Cast bronze
• shows the thinking process, exemplifies what you are striving for (red horse symbolizes knowledge, which is why it's at the top)

• Cobumora
• representational (things of the real world)
• complex symbolism and mythology related to veterinary medicine

• Cobumora Entrance

• Totem
• echos the lines of the building behind it as well as color
• non-representational
• minimal geometric forms/color

• Minimal Sculpture by Smith
• simple geometric shape and minimal color and texture
• motto: less is more
• norepresentational

• "A World Beyond" by Brad Rude
• historic role of mule as beast of burden reversed
• bought online same time as Red Horse Capture

• SITE (Sculpture In The Environment)
• Best Building
• Designers are artists and architects who design architecture with an artist's perspective/ functional architecture and art

• "Head On" by Cao Guo Quang
• 99 full sized synthetic wolves tampeding up the Guggenheim museum's spiral ramp with such force that the front of the pack lifts up into an arc of flight, like Santa's reindeer, only to crash headon into a wall of glass

• Personna by Douglas Hollis
• wind activated sound sculpture heightens one's awareness of the natural world