Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Dorothea Lange
- Title: Migrant Mother
- Date: 1936
- Medium: Gelatn silver print
- 1 significant detail: The artist crops the image close to the subjects face, forcing the viewer to comfont human misery.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Cindy Sherman
- Title: Untiled
- Date: 1984
- Medium: Color photograph
- 1 significant detail: The artist photographs herself as a disheveled model with a look of madness to protray a harsh view of the fashion industry.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Robert Smithson
- Title: Spiral Jetty
- Date: 1970
- Medium: Black rocks, salt, earth, water, and algae.
- 1 significant detail: The artist sucessfully creates land art by bulldozing earth and basalt into a spiral shape to mimic the look of a whirlpool.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Marc Evaristti
- Title: The Ice Cube Project
- Date: 2004
- Medium: Red dye and sea water
- 1 significant detail: The artist applies a deep red dye to an iceburge in order to create a dramatic contrast against the monochromatic blue backgrond.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Anish Kapoor
- Title: Cloud Gate
- Date: 2004-2006
- Medium: Highly polished steel plate
- 1 significant detail: The artist uses highly polished steel plate to mirror the surroundings of the piece as its composition.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Gustave Eiffel
- Title: Eiffel Tower
- Date: 1889
- Medium: Iron
- 1 significant detail: The artist created an open structure by using prefabricated iron.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Moche Safdie
- Title: Habitat, Expo '67
- Date: 1976
- Medium: Concrete
- 1 significant detail: The artist uses prefabricated concrete units, stacked ike blocks to provide a private deck on the roof of each unit.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Jackson Pollock
- Title: One
- Date: 1950
- Medium: Oil and enamel paint on canvas
- 1 signficant detail: The artist uses layers of dripped paint to create depth with in the painting.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Andy Warhol
- Title: Green Coca-Cola Bottles
- Date: 1962
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- 1 significant detail: The artist uses inexpensive coke bottles as his composition so that ever viewer can relate to it on some level.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Duane Hansen
- Title: Tourist
- Date: 1970
- Medium: Polyester resin/fiberglass
- 1 significant detail: The artist uses synthetic substances such as liquid polyester resin to closely aproximate the visual and tactile qualities of flesh.
|
|
|
Term
|
Definition
- Artist: Lee Krasner
- Title: Easter Lillies
- Date: 1956
- Medium: Oil on cotton duck
- 1 significant detail: The artist uses jagged shapes and bod black lines against muddied greens and pale yellows to render a meloncoly composition.
|
|
|
