lesson 11

Question 1

Neo-Expressionism 1970’s

Answer 1

-Georg Baselitz (German)
-return to the sensuousness of painting
-> ways form Minimalism / Conceptualism

US - work that affirmed the redemptive power of art in general / paintign

themes : mythological / cultural / historical

accepted / rejuvenated historical / mythological imagery

-raw / brutish manner -> large-scale works
-textural expressive brushwork / intense colours

closely linked to buying / selling / commercial system - system of art with its galleries / critics / media hype -> question its authenticity as art that was purely motivated

Question 2

Georg Baselitz (German) 1938

Answer 2

influential showing German artist who they can come to terms with issues of art / national identity (WWII)
-revived German expressionism - returned the human figure to a central position in painting (romantic traditions)

-warriors seem awkward giants clad in tattered rags -> depiction figures upside down
-who have been traditionally seen as outcasts form society

Question 3

Georg Baselitz “Elke” 1965

Question 4

Julian Schnabel 1951

Answer 4

-restore painting to its re-abstraction status

-expressivity / exuberance / balanced technical concerns with Emotional resonance

reintroduced human sentiment t painting / heaping material onto unconventional supports
->emotion / brutal expressivity

Question 5

Anselm Kiefer 1945

Answer 5

Konfrontation canvases -> know for the subject matter dealign with German history / myth => Holocaust

-heavy impact / uncommon materials

-history painter (traditional sense)
->symbolic motifs - provoke an émotion / psychosocial effect on the viewer

-incorporates text into his painted - excerpts form poems / novels / nationalist slogans

Question 6

Anselm Kiefer “ Deutschland Geisteshelden” 1973
Anselm Kiefer “The seven Heavenly Palaces” 2004

Question 7

Transavanguardia 1979
(beyond the avant-garde)

Answer 7

-referring to internation Neo-Expressionism
-> describe the work of Italian artist working in the style during the 1980’s-1990’s

Chia / Clemente / Cucchi / Paladino

free figural style of painting - nostalgic references to the Renaissance and its iconography

-large scale works - realistic imaginary portraits / religious / allegorical history paints

-inspired by symbolists / Fauvists

Chia: narrative religious works
Paladino: geometric / figurative motifs
Cucchi: romantic Surrealism inspired scenes
Clemente: self-portraiture / intimate figurative works

Question 8

Graffiti Art 1970’s-1980’s

Answer 8

-cultural movement
-> New York subway trains

B-boys voiced frustration of urban minorities in their attempt to create their own form of art => non-commercial (not to please the general public)

canvas = subway trains / walls in urban areas / industrial wastelands

-1971 signature calligraphic styles to distinguish their work / apply tags

Trains became gallery

1972 - Top-to-bottom works - entire height of the subway

Question 9

Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988

Answer 9

-emerged form the Punk scene
-street.smart graffiti artist
(widely celebrated Neo-Expressionism art movement)

Unstudied appearance - purposefully brought together in his art as host of disparate traditions / practices / style
=> visual collage

reintue human figure in their word after the wide success of Minimalism / Conceptualism

Question 10

Jean-Michel Basquiat “Notary” 1983

Question 11

Keith Haring 1958-1990

Answer 11

-fame thought his work in the city subways / streets / sidewalk

• personal vocabulary of bold/ graphic icons (radiant baby) - combined with abstract marks / patterns in densely pack allover composition s

-social activism (AIDS)

-a bridge that gap between the art world and the real world

-work in the subway is available to everyone - everyone was equal in ownership of it

Question 12

Keith Haring “Retrospect” 1989

Question 13

Banksy
(Identity remains yet unknown)

Answer 13

-famous for his graffiti art

perfect example for post modernist art - satirical stencilled images are a mixture of pure vandalism / narcissistic posturing / Irreverent Humor/ Vivid imager

-variety of stunt / happenings - filmmaking / writing ( anti-establishment messages of slogans)

Question 14

Banksy

Question 15

Young British Artist (YBA) 1997

Answer 15

-officially recognised in the “Sensation” exhibition
-called “Britart” (UK)

shocking artworks

would not have succeeded only through the patronage / promotion by millionaire / contemporary art collector Charles Saatchi

maintreat when 1997 the London Royal Academy in conjunction with Saatchi hosted “Sensatio2

Question 16

Damien Hirst 1965

Answer 16

leading figure of Young British Artists

-concerned with the fundamental dilemmas of human existence
themes: fragility of life / society’s reluctance to confront death / nature of love / desire

-Dead animal care frequently used in Hirsts installations - forcing viewers to consider their own / society’s attitudes to death

-Aquariums / vitrine are uns as devices to impasse controle of the fragile subject matter

“spot” paints are named after pharmaceutical stimulant / narcotics

collaborative pop music project

Question 17

Damien Hist “ The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mid of Some Living” 1991
Damien Hirst “Love of God” 2007

Question 18

tracy Emin “My Bed” 1998

Question 19

louise Bourgeois 1911-2010

Answer 19

-never became an abstract artist
-she created symbolic objects / drawings expressing themes of loneliness / conflict / frustration / Vulnerability

-highly person thematic content - unconscious / sexual desire/ body

symbolise the feminine psych / beauty /Psychological pain (spirals, spiders, cages medical tools)

-use of abstract form / wide variety of media -> balance playful juxtaposition material conventionally considered mal or female

rough hard material = masculine
soft biomorphic sofern = femininity

Question 20

Louise Bourgeois “Maman” 1999

Answer 20

symbol = protective

Question 21

Jeff Koons 1955

Answer 21

-appropriation / parody
-following example of Pop artist - used his work to reflect the commercial system of the modern world

-referred back to the Duchamp tradition / appropriating an art statu to selected products

-replicated domestic products advertisement / kitchen toys / models -> enthusiastic / endorsement of unlined consumption

Westen civiliationas a driven society flatters by narcissistic images and with a voracious appetite for glamorous commodities

-breached the borderlines of test - expliticy sexual photographs / models of himself with his wife (porno star)

Question 22

Jeff Koons “ Pink Panther” 1988

Question 23

Takashi Mrakami (Japanese) 1962

Answer 23

-recognition as a sculptor

-work explored the clash between contemporary Japanese / American culture with aggressive / sardonic character of his work (influence of commercial display)

-more recognition as a painter
-> blend abstraction with cartoon imagery
highly coloured images painted in flash spaces

Question 24

Takashi Murakami “ Tan tan bo” 2001

Question 25

William Kentride 1955

Answer 25

heavily involved in theatre / designing / acting -> inform the dramatic / narrative character of his art as well as his interests in link drawing / film -dominated by past / charcoal -> drawing are conceived as basis of animated films -had an ambivalent relationship to the influence of European art / culture -influenced of starts ofter used European classical themes as framework for contemporary African subject Fusion of Expressionism and the theatre -> interest of South Africa's resistance art movement

Question 26

Willian Kentridge "Johannesburg 2nd Greatest City after Paris" 1989

Question 27

Olafur Eliasson 1967

Answer 27

-universal conscience tha catapults art outside of it's norma confines - challenges the way we inhabit the world -he collaborate with experts in various field - create diverse pieces intended to propose critical intervention within exiting social systems -progressive Leadern in the kind of create thinking ->provokes the way people perceive culture / community / natural environment around them creating work that compels uncertainty -> powerful tool for battalion complacency -juxtapostion of manmade / ephemeral elements -interaction with natural phenomena = Light / water / air

Question 28

Olafur Eliasson "Weather Project" 2003

Answer 28

sun was shine the whole day, everybody could enter an stay as long as they want

Question 29

Maurizio Catalan 1960

Answer 29

-not fram training but considers himself an "art worker" (not an artist) -his taste for irreverence / the absurd but his profound interrogation of socially ingrain norm / hierarchies -his facetious art productions -> pocking holes in art / art hits / nationalism He seems to mock the forced optimism of the art world / the authoritative structs of the museum Design furniture -> sculpture / conceptual art -reputation for a sense of humour / penchant of blurring the distinction between art / reality

Question 30

Maurizio Catalan " The Wrong Gallery" 2002

Answer 30

mockery of the states of museums, was not reals but peel apples and want to be part

Question 31

Petter Fischli 1952 and Davis Weiss 1946-2012

Answer 31

collaborated on a body of work - casual meditation on how we perceive everyday life they transformed the ordinary tin something decisively not pondered question great / small -> challenged the ideas of dualism what they produced playfully unravels what they understood to be "popular opposites" aim to confuse hierarchies and values by creating systems doomed to fail and found beauty in states of imminent collapse

Question 32

Fischl and Wiese "The Way Things go" 1987