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Art Appreciation Final
art Appreciation
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2008

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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
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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
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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
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Nam June Paik
Definition
First to use video film and TV monitors in his art
Conceptual music
Worked with Charlotte Moorman
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John Lage
Definition
Avant garde composer
“there is no such thing as silence”
Music is sound
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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