Untitled Film Stills

Cindy Sherman

1978-1980

Photograph

"Identity"

• Scenarios that viewer can put themselves in
• Woman shown explores cultural context (what it means to be a women in these situations)
• Evokes cultural images and stereotypes

Gateway Arch

Eero Saarinen

1948 (completed 1964)

Stainless steel, carbon steel, reinforced concrete

St. Louis, MO

"Symbol"

• Symbol of St. Louis; competition for an "expansion memorial"
• Axis includes several important places, such as Capitol Building

Lightning Field

Walter de Maria

1977

400 stainless steel poles

Near Quemado, New Mexico

"Focus"

• Viewers have to commit to experiencing, have to take a pilgrimage there (remote location)
• Focuses attention on majestic nature, while constantly changing your perception of it

Untitled (Portrait of Ross in LA)

Felix Gonzales-Torres

1991

Multicolored candy (175 lbs.)

"Activation"

• Invading people's space since it's on the floor
• People interact directly by taking candy
• Informs public about AIDS, sense of mourning rather than anger (absence of Ross and candy)

For the Love of God

Damien Hirst

2007

Diamond, platinum, human teeth

"Market"

• Made to capatalize (metaphorically and literally) on the sensationalism of art market, meant to stir public
• Memento mori (reminder of death) vs. blingy surface is design overkill

Seagram Building

Miles Van der Rohe and Philip Johnson

1954-1958

Glass, bronze, travertine, steel

New York City

"Business"

• Only includes intentional pieces (unnecessary was arbitrary)
• Effective building design, serves company and city
• Bottom platform meant to be a podium, also is a go-to point for public

Armory Exhibit

European artists and American "Eight"

1913

Exhibit

New York City

"Shock"

• In a sober-looking building, further emphasized the serious motives for the exhibit
• Wanted to shock America and inspire them to make modern art
• First time America was exposed to cubism (successful; seen in American Pop Culture immediately)

Golden Bird

Brancusi

1920

Wood, limestone, polished bronze

"Absotraction"

• Challenges the line between abstraction and representation (base and sculpture); Brancusi was intentional with his own creation of the pedestal
• Originally taxed as a kitchen utesil, only determined to be art since Brancusi was an artist
• Art is what's created when you let your mind to drive the process

Falling Water

Frank Lloyd Wright

1936

Local stone, bedrock, structural steel, glass, wood

Bear Run, PA

"Audacity"

• Bold building; amazing artwork, especially at this time (recovering from recession)
• Used natural outgrowth of the land for the design

Wainwright Building

Sullivan and Adler

1891

Glass, steel, stone, red brick, terra cotta

St. Louis, MO

"Structure"

• One of the first buildings to use structural steel
• Honeycomb structure allowed for each office to have a window; more user-friendly
• Fireproof brick allowed for the building to be tall since it was safer

Fine Arts Pavillion (SLAM)

Cass Gilbert

1904

Staff, plaster, concrete, brick, stone, steel, glass

St. Louis, MO (Louisiana Purchase Exhibition)

"Classicism"

• Beaux-arts classicism: classical architecture to fit modern life
• "Acropolis" of Art Hill, relates back to ideas of Classicism
• American art was placed in the center (most important objects used to be placed in the center of temples)

Autumn Rhythm

Jackson Pollock

1950

Enamel on canvas

"Allover"

• Abstraction: deliver idea without realistic representation
• Every part of the canvas is significant
• Way he make the artwork was similar: being everywhere and only seeing the final at the end

Chicago Tribune Tower Competition

Howell and Hood (1st), Saarinen (2nd)

1922

Architectural plans

"Compromise"

• Compromise between architects, newspaper company, and city
• Wanted building to be commercial and integrated in the city
• Other US architects used ideas from the Tribune competition in their own work

The Gates of Hell

August Rodin

1880-1917

Cast bronze

"Afterlife"

• Subject matter is Dante's Inferno
• Process of casting bronze is modern; intended to last for a long time

La Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat

1884-1886

Oil paint (Pointilism)

"City"

• Modern subject and modern way of painting
• Included elements of modern city life
• Three people in front depict a combination of different classes, but the figures aren't interacting

Most Wanted Men No. 12, Frank B.

Andy Warhol

1964

Silkscreened ink on canvas

New York City

"Everyday"

• Exhibited in public at the World's Fair; offended public
• Shows the triviality of fame, anyone can become a "celebrity"

House

Rachel Whiteread

1993

Concrete cast

East London

"Memory"

• Cast of interior space of house; placed at old location
• Appears ghostly with material and lack of color
• Project: make a solid object out of a memory
• Very controversial, torn down quickly

The Steerage

Alfred Stieglitz

1907

Photograph

"Aspiration"

• Photographers wanted their work to be considered both a fine art and documentary, this helped prove that it is
• Immigrants wanted to become Americans, this photo inspired them to pursue their dreams

Tropon Advertisement

Henri Van de Velde

1898

Color lithograph poster

"Reproduction"

• Advertisement (new concept) for a new product
• Poster was intended for reproduction (also included repeated elements within)
• Art Nouveau: "new art," artist's accepted the rapidly nature of modern life

Andalusian Dog

Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel

1929

Film

"Unconscious"

• Intentional editing (fading, etc.) resembles fading in and out of consciousness
• Ambiguity of gender; plays into unconscious (What is happening? What is real? Makes viewers question what they are actually seeing)

The Joy of Life

Henri Matisse

1905-1906

Oil paint

"Color"

• Color not related to subject matter, used to evoke emotion
• Used studies to come up with color and composition
• Not a modern theme, but painted in a modern way

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico

Ansel Adams

1941

Photograph

"Truth"

• Adams believed nature was as alive as humans, strove to show liveliness in this image
• Made careful adjustments in the darkroom, so what is shown isn't an accurate depiction of what this scene actually looked like

Cut with the Kitchen Knife

Hannah Hoch

1919-1920

Photomontage (newspaper on cardstock)

"Disjunction"

• Collage: assembly of previously created works
• Three contexts: cubism, end of WWI, role of women
• Arranged in a way that shows the clashing views of Dada; supporters, anti-Dada, supporting, mentally investing

Frankfurt Kitchen

Shutte-Lihotzky

1926

Linoleum countertop, aluminium cabinets, glass

"Efficiency"

• Shutte-Lihotzky did timed studies on women's efficiency in different kitchen layouts, used the most efficient one
• Wanted to design a kitchen best suited for women, which would then best suit society as a whole

Dinner Party

Judy Chicago

1974-1979

Ceramic, porcelain, textiles

"Collaboration"

• Plates were made at ceramic workshop alongside other women artists
• Mary Beth Edelson's idea of recreating Last Supper, where the idea for Dinner Party came from
• Chicago then developed a book, film, and curriculum using Dinner Party to study feminism

Fading Cloth

El Anatsui

2005

Aluminum liquor bottle capsuels and copper wire

"Globalism"

"Interconnecting the whole world"

• Make western world aware of non-western art through traveling exhibitions
• All has historical connection: weaving = African, tapestries = European, liquor = Europeans

Guernica

Pablo Picasso

1937

Oil painting

"Ideology"

• (Concepts about humans and their ways of thinking)
• Subject is the bombing of Guernica, shows the aftermath
• Wanted his work to be universally applicable: subject of "anti-war"
• Black and white reflects the idea of Picasso getting news from newspaper