Quiz 2 Flashcards
(45 cards)
Chosen by chance from French-German dictionary, French word for “hobbyhorse”, centered on chance occurrences, absurd (logic and reason had led to war), break complacency and conventional thinking
Dada
Use of salvaged scrap materials, combining unlikely found objects to create surprising and unsettling sculptures
Assemblage
One-of-a-kid camera less photograph made by putting objects directly on photographic paper and then exposing both the object and paper to light
Photogram
The principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations
Surrealism
Wiping paint over canvas with a textural object underneath, providing surface texture on canvas
Grattage
Sought to create, through geometric abstraction, total environments that were so perfect they embodied a universal harmony / the style
De Stijl
Founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany by Walter Gropius. Core objective to reimagine the material world to reflect unity of all arts. Gropius developed a craft-based curriculum that would turn out artisans and designers capable of creating useful and beautiful objects appropriate to this new system of living
Bauhaus
- No ground floor, with the house raised on columns, 2. A flat roof, which would be used as a garden terrace, 3. an open floor plan, with partitions slotted between supports, 4. free composition of the exterior curtain walls, 5. preferably ribbon (horizontal) windows
Le Corbusier, Five points of a New Architecture:
Symbol of American nation
New York City +. Skyscraper
Representational focus on social ills including poverty, labor oppression, suffering migrant work, alienation in industrialization, and racism
Social Realism
Movement in American Painting that flourished in New York City post WWII. Abstraction conveyed strong emotional content. Known for large-scale paintings and unconventional use of materials
Abstract Expressionism
A type of abstract expressionism utilizing gesture and movement
Action painting / overall painting
A type of abstract expressionism using large, meditative planes of color
Color-field painting
Innovative works that combined paintings, sculpture, collage, and found objects
Combines
Style emerged in early 1960s in NYC, derives imagery from popular or vernacular culture
Pop Art
Seek to make unemotional art using smooth surfaces that belie the human hand and assert the flatness of the surface
Formalist Painting
Using the land as a resource, the artist modifies or constructs in relation to the land, intended as a conceptual piece and often subject to atrophy or displacement, the work was frequently documented with photography or video
Earthworks
Art generally exists solely as an idea, with no visual manifestation other than words; the idea, concept, or information is consumed
Conceptual Art
Art that deals with women’s issues and redefining aesthetic values in contemporary art
Feminist Art
Duchamp 1917
Hoch 1919
Man Ray 1922
Dali 1931
Oppenheim 1931
