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C5: 1960-2015 Flashcards

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David Hockney pieces and analysis

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  1. Bigger Splash 1967, acrylic paint on canvas
  2. In the dull village 1966, etching
  3. Pearblossom Highway 11-18th April 1986, collage
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Judy Chicago pieces and analysis

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  1. Rainbow Picket 1965
  2. Womanhouse 1972
  3. The Dinner party 1979
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Analyse Peter Blake’s Self-portrait with Badges

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Peter Blake, Self-portrait with Badges 1961 is a riff off of Thomas Gainsborough’s “Blue Boy” 1770, the Mona Lisa of it’s time. He wears fashionable denim, has American badges to show his identity and has shoes and magazine for Elvis. Linking consumerism and identity and the influence of American culture over UK

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Analyse Faith Ringgold’s “Ben”

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Faith Ringgold “Ben” 1978, soft-materials as high art, too big to be doll too small to be sculpture, shows homeless veteran, alcohol, political badges, confederate flag- America in chaos

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Yinka Shonibare pieces

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  1. Nelson’s ship in a bottle 2010

2. The Swing (after Fragonard) 2001

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Chris Ofili works + analyse

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  1. Holy Virgin Mary 1996, shows genitals and racial identity alongside holy image. Challenges conceptions through using Black Madonna with golliwog imagery
  2. No Woman No Cry 1998, RIP Stephen Laurence written on it- both pieces larger than life and propped up on elephant dung
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Claus Oldenburg works + analyse

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  1. Lipstick ascending caterpillar tracks 1969

2. Lipsticks in Piccadilly circus 1966

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2 works of High Tech architecture

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  1. Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano Centre Pompidou 1977
    - Emphasising usefulness of the building
    - Bowelism, inside on the outside
    - Technology, function, on form, outside
    - “Fun palace” and “architecture for the people” not an elite building of high art, but democratic
  2. Richard Rogers, Lloyds building 1986
    (not for the people though, for Lloyds)
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Summarise analysis of the Venturi Sainsbury wing

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  • Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown, National Gallery Sainsbury Wing 1991
  • Built on department store, odd outside therefore use of marble facade on steel frame
  • Rhythms of classical elements to appear like a curtain pulled back, acknowledgement of detail
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3 works by Frank Gehry for Deconstructivism

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  1. Guggenheim 1997
  2. Dancing House 1996
  3. Santa Monica House 1978
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3 works for Brutalism

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  1. Trellick Tower, Goldfinger 1968
  2. Hayward Gallery, Higgs and Hill 1968
  3. National Theatre, Denys Lasdun 1976
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Name 2 UK and 2 US non-objective (or abstract) works of art

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UK1. Richard Long, Line made by walking 1967, traces of humans in nature, grass will grow back, impermanence
UK2. Anthony Caro (his teacher) Early One morning 1962, found steel welded together to create big masculine sculpture. High classical modernism and formalism, made to be pondered and interpreted
US1. Judy Chicago, Rainbow Pickett 1965
US2: Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty 1970

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Name 2 UK and 2 US Portraits (C5)

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UK1: No Woman No Cry, Chris Ofili 1997
UK2: Peter Blake’s Self-portrait with badges 1961
US1. Andy Warhol, Golden Marilyn 1962
US2. Andy Warhol, Mao Tse-Tung 1972

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“In 1960 the problem that has no name burst like a boil through the image of the happy American housewife”

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Betty Friedan, Feminine Mystique, 1963

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“Why are there no great women artists” Linda Nochlin, 1971

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not only due to societal marginalisation, but also the celebration of the male genius as an artist and hero, which contrasts with the “Quotidian banality of the female, domestic sphere”

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“not only [is Judy Chicago] a pioneer of feminist art; she is arguably its founder, inventor and chief figurehead”

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Gloria Steinem, Interview Magazine, 2017

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What did Ana Mendieta say about her Silhueta series

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“I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body […] I believe this has been a direct result of my having been torn from my homeland during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature)”

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Summarise Richard Long’s A Line made by walking

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  • Made in 1967 in England
  • “Long’s artistic ethos has always been f direct, dynamic and physical movement with the landscape” (Walking the Line, Paul Moorhouse)
  • Remove the hand of the artist, intolerable simplicity
  • Resistance to the dominant belief that art is not only to be enjoyed but must also promote an eternal future (Moorhouse, Walking the line)
  • Artist controlling nature and leaving a trace impermanently
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Summarise Mies van der Rohe’s National Galerie Berlin 1968

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  • “Less is more”
  • Dark heavy steel roof contrasts the glass walls
  • Elevated like the Parthenon
  • Square roof reminds one of coffered classical ceilings
  • 8 columns and 18 metre cantilever hold it up
  • The space is inefficient, all paintings have to be hung downstairs
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Summarise the Trellick Tower

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  • Built in 1968 by Erno Goldfinger
  • Form of brutalism popular in the post-war society due to its cheapness and equality
  • Higher and uses more glass than typical council houses
  • Lifts and boiler room on the left tower, separate from the living spaces
  • Bridge elements prevent sound pollution and provide viewing galleries
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Summarise Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao

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  • Made in 1997 for the Guggenheim art gallery, Gehry makes moving buildings
  • No classical elements, entirely new
  • Fluid and moving, looks like a ship from one angle, get deconstructed and abstract
  • Grey shimmery tiling like fish skin
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Summarise Frank Gehry’s Gehry Residence

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  • Made in 1978 in Philadelphia
  • Old Dutch-colonial house kept underneath
  • Holes in house, walls thrown out rebuilt
  • “Windows…I wanted them to look like they’re dragging”
  • Buy and old house, build a new one and retain the tension between the two
  • Finding rubbish on the street and incorporating it to deliberately unsettle
  • Under a constant state of change
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Summarise Tracy Emin’s Why I never became a dancer

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  • made in 1997 shot on super 8 film
  • Narration of artist’s early teenage years
  • Doesn’t line up with video creating detachment and retrospect
  • Small-town hypocrisy towards female sexuality, culminating in a dance competition where Emin is heckled by boys she slept with
  • Dancing alone in an empty room she dedicates her dance for them
  • Introduces sexuality to high art
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Summarise Bruce Nauman’s Good Boy Bad Boy

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  • Made in 1985 consisting of two monitors sitting at head height
  • Man and woman repeat 100 phrases and never break eye contact
  • Delivery changes in tone, and eventually they fall out of sync
  • Man’s delivery exaggerated, woman’s is more expressive
  • While the viewer can’t answer they become an active participant
  • Statements become aggressive rather than educative and tension builds
  • Disorientated by moral implications
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Summarise the Pompidou Centre by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano

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  • Made from 1971-1977
  • Showing structural systems as potential sources of artistic inspiration
  • Exposed ducts, externalised technical elements (bowellism)
  • Long interior makes flexible space
  • Facade made entirely from glass allowing the public to see inside- palace of the people, public space
  • Structure, movement and flow systems are all related to the exterior to free up the inside space
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ETVT Nothing in this period was more influential than the women’s movement

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INTRO: While influential, there were other movements which were also inspirational.

  1. Chicago and Minimalism
    - 1965 Rainbow Pickett at the 1966 Primary Structures exhibition challenged monochrome impressions in minimalism
    - triangle is woman’s genitalia and the large structure obstructs the viewer
    - Latex paint inspired by finish fetish
    - WomanHouse with Mariam Schapiro in 1972 turned to Exhibitionism
    - The Dinner Party 1979, triangle table with placeholders for successful women
    - Introduced ceramics and textiles as a form of high art and that women should be celebrated for their vulgarity
  2. Silhueta and Land Art
    - Silhueta series started in 1973
    - “my exploration through my art of the relationship between myself and nature has been a clear result of my having bee turned from my homeland”
    - Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty 1970 links to her beach silhuetas. Intended to be temporary, only immortalised by photography
    - Richard Long, A line made by walking 1967, leaving traces behind- Mendieta leaves traces of violence against women behind like the outline of a murder
  3. Civil Rights Movements
    - 1966 Flag Day Benny Andrews speaks about the incarceration of black people- became influential after MET exhibition on Harlem and Black America 1969 did not include any black artists
    - 1978 Faith Ringgold’s “Ben” used soft materials not considered high art
    - Too big to be puppet too small to be sculpture, he is a representation of USA
    - Vagrant veteran, holding a bottle, confederate flag and ripped clothes/shoes. He has many different political badges reflecting polarisation
    - Also reflects consumerist culture, identifying yourself through materials.
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Explore the impact of public controversies on interpretation of three works of art associated with YBA

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  1. Emin’s “My Bed” 1998
    - instillation and confession piece to her use of alcohol, drugs and contraception
    - Removes “Divine hand” of artist, bringing herself down to be criticised
    - Revels in controversy, part of the art is the response to a woman’s flaws
    - Did not win Turner Prize 1999 but it can be argued to be most famous, pushing the boundaries of female artists
  2. Damien Hirst, “Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” 1991
    - Stuckold Gallery “A dead shark isn’t art”
    - More ridiculous than meaningful to some, but a closer look at a shark
    - Rather than standing in front of a shark fearing death, you consider the shark’s
    - Subtle critique of capitalism destroying nature for profit and fear
  3. Chris Ofili, “The Holy Virgin Mary” 1996
    - Black Madonna propped up by elephant dung + dung nipple
    - Black Madonna is unfamiliar to the Europeans, plus exposed breast seen as wrong: both are traditional though
    - Facial features similar to the Golliwog and shapes used to make up her dress are like vaginas
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Who talks about hybridity of cultures?

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Homi Bhabha

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Explore artistic influences on your specified artist

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Hockney:
Picasso: Flattening of the camera pictures (Pearblossom Highway)
Matisse: colour (Bonheur de Vivre)

Judy Chicago:
Mariam Schapiro: Womanhouse
Georgia O’Keeffe: Flower series

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Georgia O’Keeffe on colour

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“I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way”

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