2400 Test 2 Flashcards
(49 cards)
Abramovic, Marina
“The Family I”, chromogenic print, 70-7/8 x 88-1/2” Photo as document of performance artist’s series, critique of war (highlights use of child soldiers)
Ai Weiwei
“Sunflower Seeds” (installed 2010 at Tate Modern, London)
100 million, illusionistically hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds as visual metaphor for Chinese masses. He was 1 co- designer of Birds Nest for Beijing Olympics. Outspoken artist fell from grace, jailed (& recently released) by his govt.
Ai Weiwei
”Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn”. Digital Print in 3 parts. Provocative Chinese artist in 1995 performance, dropping a 2000-year old Han Dynasty urn. What is the value of art?
Baldessari, John
“Gavel” b/w appropriated, altered photographs, vinyl paint, 48 x 30 inches 1987
Barney, Matthew
From “Cremaster 1” (film) production still. Spent youth in Idaho & chose to return to Boise stadium to create this piece. Performances by artist-producer of extravaganzas. Adopts assorted personae. Questions identity, gender etc. Screen at least part of his piece at UMoCA
Bourgeois, Louise
“Maman” 1999. steel and marble, 30-1/2 x 29-1/4 x 33-3/4 ft. From series of similar spider forms. Influential French artist w/ long international career experimenting w/ many materials. Deceased
Burden, Chris

“Urban Light” 200 (found- object) antique cast-iron street lamps, installation at LACMA’s Broad Contemporary Art Museum 2008
CAI Guo-Qiang
“Head On”, glass wall & 99 life size replicas of wolves made of papier mache, plaster, fiberglass, resin and painted (found- material) goat hide. Illusion of movement. Pattern. Visual metaphor
CAI Guo-Qiang
“Inopportune: Stage One” 2004. 8 found-object cars and sequenced multichannel light tubes. Installation exists in different guises/ locations, eg Seattle Art Museum. Born Fujian Province. Designer of Beijing Olympic ceremonies
Cattelan, Maurizio
“Him” 2001 Wax, human hair, suit, polyester resin. (Piece uses both found-
object and fabricated elements) 101 x 41 x 53cm Artist as Bad Boy, Provocateur enjoys outrage of viewers.
After successful recent Guggenheim retrospective, announced his retirement from making art.
Cattelan, Maurizio
“The Ninth Hour”, installation, with both fabricated and found-object elements. Italian artist frequently skewers authority figures in his illusionist figures. 1999
Clemente, Francesco
“Moon” Tempera on 12 sheets of handmade paper mounted on muslin, 96x91” Much of his material is autobiographical. Visual metaphor. Italian (with 1 of his studios in India)
Coe, Sue
“Live Baby Chicks used as Fertilizer” Mixed media drawing from “Dead Meat” series. Among other topics, UK artist (working in US) spotlights ethics of the food industry. Artist as social critic, as scold
Coe, Sue
“Horse Slaughterhouse” Image from her critique of the meat industry, the book “Dead Meat”. Grew up next to a slaughterhouse in England, and those early memories inform her work.
Frey, Viola
Whiteware (ceramic) 87” h each. Height significant because of technical difficulties of lg scale in clay. 1982.1 of influential California artists who moved towards sculpture, expanding the medium beyond public’s expectation of ceramic art as smaller, utilitarian ware. Figurative abstraction. See her piece at UMFA. Deceased
Hamilton, Ann
“Still Life”. Artist (as both performer and sculptor, creator of temporary, on- site installation.) Found- object shirts with alternative media: eucalyptus, wax. 1988
Hamilton, Ann
“Accountings” installation transformed museum’s entire exhibition space. Floor covered w/ steel tokens, walls drawn on w/ candle soot as alternative medium. Wax votive heads filled vitrine. 200 canaries flew free. 1992.
Hirst, Damien
Top: “Away from the Flock” Bottom: “This Little Piggy went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed Home”
2 sculptures which include found objects & steel/glass/formaldehyde. Part of series used animals (in some cases cut by butcher in half, w/ organs visible on one side) Lower piece is motorized (i.e. kinetic). UK artist
Holt, Nancy
“Sun Tunnels” concrete, site-specific installation, land art, Great Basin, UT 1973-76
From list of Required Shows, you are seeing UMFA exhibit “Sightlines”, including her film on construction of this land art sculpture and early video “East Coast/ West Coast”
Kapoor, Anish
“Cloud Gate”, permanent feature of Chicago’s Millennium Park. (Public art.) Reflective surface engages clouds, sky and viewers. Interior swirls upwards, offering distorted reflections. One of a series of projects in which sculptor ventures into architecture.
Kapoor, Anish
“Yellow” fiberglass/pigment. Intense primary color pigments and elemental forms typical of Indian-born UK artist’s work. 245x245x140 cm. 1998
Keifer, Anselm
“Iron Path” oil, acrylic, gold leaf/canvas, with lead strips, crampons, olive branches, 86”x149” Railroad tracks in German artist’s work reference to history of the Holocaust, the transportation of millions to their deaths. 1986
Kiefer, Anselm
From his inventive series of artist’s books.
Original photos and ferrous oxide and linseed oil on oatmeal wallpaper. 104 double pages.
Painter known for experimentation with mixed media, many of his images touching on landscape & troubled 20th c. history of his native Germany
Kiefer, Anselm
“Isis and Osiris”
Oil. acrylic emulsion, clay, porcelain, lead copper wire, and circuit board on canvas. (Alternative material). 12’ x 18’
Some of architectural forms are critique of triumphalism of Nazi era art & architecture. 1985-87
