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Fine Arts 101
Exam 3 (WSU)
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Fine Art
Undergraduate 2
04/21/2009

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Abstract Expressionism
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Art that is nonrepresentational, energetic, and combines the psychological content of expressionism with an abandonment of any clear reference to the visual world
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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
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  • "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
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4'33"
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John Cage, silent musical performance, the performance is the natural sounds
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  • "Two Calla Lilies on Pink" By Georgia O'Keefe
  • enlarged forms based on natural
  • harmonious
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  • "Christina's World" by Wyeth
  • Tempera Paint
  • Realistic art: imitates things in the world
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  • "Waterfall" by M.C. Escher
  • Print, alters perspective, metamorphosis, complex geometry, endless cycles
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  • "Two Hundred Soup Cans" by Warhol
  • Pop Art, mass media, repetitions bomard and desensitize us
  • familiar commercial objects viewed as art
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  • Comic Image by Lichtenstein
  • painting adapted from comic strips
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  • Giant Clothspin by Oldenburg
  • enlarged outdoor sculptures
  • make the object seem new to us
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  • untitled by Bridget Riley
  • pattern & color repitition
  • optical illusion
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  • Coca-Cola by Julian Beever
  • sidewalk chalk drawings
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  • "Tourists" by Duane Hanson
  • Trompe L'oeil: tricks the eye into believing it's the real thing
  • new materials, trompe l'oeil sculptures
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  • "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
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  • "Veitnam Memorial" by Maya Ying Lin
  • Wall of names of those who fought in D.C.
  • Caused controversy because it was TOO simplistic
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  • "Blue Umbrellas" by Christo
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  • "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
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Andy Goldsworthy
Definition
Earth Art and Performance art combined---- uses art to focus on a characteristic of the environment (color of earth, flow of water & wind, passage of time)

-Threw clay into water, threw dirt into air
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William Wegman
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Black and White video Art Humorous short clips, RAGE AND DEPRESSION
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"The Way Things Go"
Definition
by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Art and Science (physics, chemistry, machanics). Chain reaction!
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Cao Guo Quang
Definition

created gunpowder drawings & was responsible for the Beijing Olympics fireworks

-Also responsible for "Head On"

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Blue Man Gruop
Definition
applied art/Rock concert, manually made music

-3 men is the smallest # in which someone is an outsider
-Used PVC pipes
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  • James Luna
  • stereotyping
  • exemplified the stereotypes of his spanish and indian cultures
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[image]
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  • Magic Figure, African Art
  • Zaire, long process of accumulation of materials (added to give owner supernatural power)
  • function is determined by materials added
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  • Relinquary Figure, african art
  • Wood covered with brass and copper
  • Protects ancestor bones
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Ndbele Mural Painting and Beadwork
  • South Africa
  • Bright geometric murals and beadwork by Nedbele women
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  • "Bear's Belly" by Edward Curtis
  • Native American Photography
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  • Tlingit Totem Pole in Pioneer Square, Seattle
  • Honors a Woman
  • From Alaska
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  • Kwaguitl, Tsonqua Totem Pole
  • in Seattle
  • 12 feet tall
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  • Male Kangaroo- X-ray Painting
  • Aboriginal Art
  • Eucalyptus Bark
  • Ancestral Being Manifest as Kangaroo
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  • Man's Love Story, dreaming
  • Aboriginal Art
  • Sacred Narrative Ancestral Journey
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  • Mortuary Sculpture, two young women
  • Aboriginal art
  • ceremonial sculpture with funerary body paint
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  • 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)
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  • Cobumora
  • representational (things of the real world)
  • complex symbolism and mythology related to veterinary medicine
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  • Cobumora Entrance
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[image]
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  • Totem
  • echos the lines of the building behind it as well as color
  • non-representational
  • minimal geometric forms/color
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  • Minimal Sculpture by Smith
  • simple geometric shape and minimal color and texture
  • motto: less is more
  • norepresentational

 

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The Student (outdoor campus art)
Definition
Dudly Pratt, on Old Holland Library
-Relief sculpture, depicts the farm boy studying at WSU
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X-position (outdoor campus art)
Definition
biological processes. it's in sections with hinges so the form of the sculpture can be changed.
-Although each section is several tons, there is a light feeling because the sculpture touches down only on a few points. Upkeep of the creme finish is a problem
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The Caring Call (outdoor campus art)
Definition
-Farmer, boy, and cow
-private funding through the sale of small replicas of the sculpture.
-representational and naturalistic
-Genre scene, strategically placed within grass and trees on campus
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Technicolor Heart
Definition
Jim Dine, sculpture from Walla Walla
-bronze, casting makes multiples of an object,
Dine has passion for work, tools, familiar mass produced objects
-Pop Art & bright colors
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  • "A World Beyond" by Brad Rude
  • historic role of mule as beast of burden reversed
  • bought online same time as Red Horse Capture

 

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Andrea Zittel
Definition
-The Uniform Project (simplify life by creating small areas of space and wearing one garment for months at a time)
-"Things you think you need can control you. Things you think restrict you can free you"
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Mel Chin
Definition
-SPAWN (Special Projects Agriculture Worms Neighborhoods)
-Put burned homes (from Devil Night fires) on swivel and raised worms in the basement
-Reclaimed polluted land by using hyperaccumulates (plants) to soak up the metals in the soil (they may eventually be harvested for metals)
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Do Ho Suh
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-created transportable fabrics that act as replica of homes
-Came from Korean background where everyone was a number, same haircuts, uniforms, military required
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  • SITE (Sculpture In The Environment)
  • Best Building
  • Designers are artists and architects who design architecture with an artist's perspective/ functional architecture and art
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  • "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
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  • Personna by Douglas Hollis
  • wind activated sound sculpture heightens one's awareness of the natural world
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