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Byam Slide Test 1
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103
Art History
12th Grade
09/17/2009

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Philip Guston, Rug, 1976, Neo Expressionism

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Richard Hamilton, Interior, 1964-1965, British Pop Art

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Roy Lichtenstein, Wham!, 1963, Pop Art

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Ellsworth Kelly, Red Blue Green, 1963, Hard Edge

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Willem DeKooning, Woman I, 1951, Abstract Expressionism

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Georgia O'Keefe, Cow's Skull with Calico Roses, 1931, American Regionalism

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Morris Louis, Alpha Phi, 1960, Color Field

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Frank Stella, Thkt-Sulayman I, 1967, Hard Edge

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 Alexander Calder, Flamingo, 1973, Organic Formalism, Federal Center Plaza, Chicago, International Style
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Jacob Lawrence, Migration Series No.57, 1940-41, Harlem Renaissance

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Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space and others, 1928, Organic Formalism

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Philip Guston, The Ladder, 1978, Neo-Expressionist with a Pop Art flair

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Maya Lin, Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC, 1982, Minimalism

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Grant Wood, Parson Weems' Fable, 1939, American Regionalism (Amon Carter Museum)

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Joan Miro, Woman Addressing the Public, 1981, Organic Formalism-Surrealism

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Richard Serra, Vortex, 2002, Minimalism

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Louise Nevelson, Lunar Landscape Wall, 1959-60, Assemblage

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Dan Flavin, Untitled, 1977, Minimalism

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Andy Warhol, Triple Elvis, 1963, Pop Art

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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, American Regionalism-Existentialism

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Frank Gehry, Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago Millennium Park, 2004, Deconstructive Architecture

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1961, Abstract Expressionalism

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Marsden Hartley, The Aero, 1914, American Cubist-German Expressionism

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Georgia O'Keefe, Red Hills With Flowers, 1937, American Regionalism

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Claes Oldenberg, Spoonbridge and Cherry, 1988, Pop Art;  Coosje van Bruggen

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IM Pei, Louvre Museum, Paris, France, 1989, Post Modernism

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Stuart Davis, Blips and Ifs, 1963-64, American Cubism

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Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963, Pop Art

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Roy Lichtenstein, Pop Art

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Eero Saarinen,TWA Terminal, NY, 1962, Organic Formalism(Postmodern)
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Alberto Giacometti, City Square, Existentialism
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Andy Goldsworthy, Earth Art, Ephemeral Art
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Jørn Utzon, Sydney Opera House, 1973, Organic Formalism.

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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979, Feminist Installation
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Stuart Davis, Swing Landscape, 1938, American Cubism
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Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, 1940-41, Harlem Renaissance
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Marsden Hartley, Studio 291 Artist, WPA Artist, German Expressionist, American Cubist
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Dan Flavin, Minimalism
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Morris Louis, Color Field
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James Rosenquist, President Elect, 1960-61, Pop Art
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Mark Rothko, Abstract Expressionism (New York School)
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Franz Kline, Abstract Expressionism(New York School) at the National Gallery of Art
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Renzo Piano and Rogers, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1977, Metabolic Architecture
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Alexander Calder, Red Mobile, 1956, Organic Formalism
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Richard Estes, Telephone Booths, 1968, Super Realism
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-79, Feminist Installation
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Donald Judd, Untitled, 1990, Minimalism
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Le Corbusier, Notre Dame de Haut, Organic Formalism
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Andy Goldsworthy, Rowan Leaves With Hole, 1987,
Earth Art, Ephemeral Art
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Helen Frankenthaler, The Bay, 1963, Color Field
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Grant Wood, Stone City, Iowa, 1930, American Regionalism
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Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces, 1955, Pop Art
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Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism
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Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 1955, Pop Art

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Robert Smithson,Spiral Jetty,1970, Earth Art
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Claes Oldenberg, Trowel, Pop Art
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Chuck Close, Mark, 1978, Super Realism
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American Realism, WPA artist
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Michael Graves, Denver Public Library, 1989, Post Modern Architecture
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Jean Dubuffet, The Gossiper II, Existentialism
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Joseph Cornell, Assemblage
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Henry Moore, Organic Formalism
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Michael Graves, Portland Public Service Building, 1980-82, Postmodern Architecture
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Henry Moore, Reclining Figure, 1951, Organic Formalist Sculpture
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Christo and Jeanne Claude, The Gates, Earth/Environmental Art
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Duane Hanson, Super Realism/Egalitarianism
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IM Pei, National Gallery of Art, Post Modern Architecture
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Francis Bacon, Existentialism
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Christo and Jeanne Claude, Surrounded Islands, 1980-83, Earth Art
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Minimalism
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Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans, 1978-79, Charles Moore

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Aesthetics

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Sense of Beauty

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Abstract Expressionism

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often called New York School; paintings are abstract and express the artists state of mind; 1940s and 50s; action (gesture) painting, impasto, sets precedent, organic shapes
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Appropriation

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Borrowning from someone else's artwork in your piece

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Assemblage

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artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found objects.
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Robert Rauschenberg

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transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art

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Art Brut

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Raw Art; term coined by Jean Dubuffet after being fasicinated by the art of children and the insane. Wanted to put this raw energy in his work
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Deconstructivism

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Building design that attempts to view architecture in bits and pieces; The basic elements of architecture are dismantled; Abstract forms
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Color Field Painter

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Color dominates, not texture nor brushwork; fills page no negative space, soak and stain, unprimed canvases, encaustic painting, calm and inwardly directed
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Constructivism

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Non-representational relief construction; Response to changes in technology & contemporary life it referenced social & economic problems.
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Existentialism

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Questions existence; foreboding; advocating individual struggles; spirit of cynicism and pessimism after end of WWII; isolated
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Earth Art

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inspired by Minimalism and Cubism; landscape dominates; ephemeral; work exists out in the open; nature as the canvas
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Ephemeral

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used in earth art; exisits only briefly; transitory; short-lived

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Hard-Edge Painter

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straight lines (mechanically made); opposite of Abstract Expressionism; precise; controlled placement of hues (color) (primary colors)
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Impasto

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way of applying paint, specifically a thick, textured application of paint where the marks made by the brush or painting knife stay visible (Abstract Expressionism)
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Installation

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Art that has been arranged in a place as intended by the artist

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Lozenge

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Diamond shaped painting

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Kinetic Art

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Art that dependes on motion for its effects; moves or has moving parts

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Maquette

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Small model of a sculpture or piece of architecture

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Minimalism

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3D version of Hard Edge; man made sculpture; 1950s; geometric

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Mobile

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coined by Alexander Calder; moving kinetic pieces of art

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Postmodernism

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late 20th century movement; taking something classical and immitating it

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Pop Art

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1950s; usage of Primary Colors (Blue-Orange; Yellow-Violet; Red-Green); Mass consumption; Mass Media; Mass Production
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Photorealism

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Reproduced exact details of commonplace objects; nearly photographic; photo vision; aka Super Realism
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Regionalism

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1930s; art movement where artists shunned the city to focus on scenes of rural life; American Heartland
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Stabile

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coined by Alexander Calder; static art; stays still

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Organic

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 living or natural shape that is not geometric; irregular;

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Geometric

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geometric man made patterns; rythmic

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Metabolic Architecture

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 building is divided up by function through color coding, can see its working from the outside
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Benday dots

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used by Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstien; small colored dots are closely-spaced, widely-spaced or overlapping; inexpensive way to create shading and secondary colors in the 50s and 60s
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Combine

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coined by Robert Rauschenberg; painted surface is combined with various real objects
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Encaustic

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method of painting where colors are burned in; pigments (colors) mixed with hot wax
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Mark Rothko

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transition from Abstract Expressionism to Colorfield

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