TEST TWO

Question 1

Answer 1

Marina Abramovic

Relation in Time

16mm film still from performance in Bologna, Italy 1977

Orginially performed in 1977 for 17 hours at Studio G7

Visual metaphor

Early performance art with partner Ulay

Question 2

Answer 2

Marina Abramovic

Balkan Baroque

Video installation & mixed media, MoMA, NYC 2010

Three channel 24 minute color video, cow bones, copper sinks, & tub filled with black water, bucket, soap, metal brush, dress stained with blood

Question 3

Answer 3

Ai Weiwei

Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn

Digital print in 3 parts

1995

Provocative Chinese artist in performace, dropping an ancient Han Dynasty urn

Photo documents also published bearing sarcastic text So Sorry emblazoned across them

Asking what is the value of art?

Member design team for Bird’s Nest, Beijing Olympics Political activist later fell from grace, jailed by his government

Question 4

Answer 4

Ai Weiwei

Sunflower Seeds

Temporary installtion at Tate Modern in London

2010

100 million illusionistic porcelain sunflower seeds all hand-painted by contracted workers in a single Chinese town, his homage to traditional craft

Question 5

Answer 5

Matthew Barney

From Cremaster 1 (part of his series of independently produced films), production still

Spent youth in Idaho & returned to high school stadium to stage piece

Performances by artist-director-producer of extravaganzas recalling mid-century Hollywood musicals

Adopts assorted personae

Questions idendity, gender, etc.

Question 6

Answer 6

Louise Bourgeois

Maman

steel and marble

30x29x33 ft

1990

From series of similar large-scale female spider forms in assorted media

figurative abstraction

influential feminist French artist with long international career experimenting with many materials

Question 7

Answer 7

Chris Burden

Urban Light

permanent installation

200 found object antique cast iron streetlamps in a grid

LACMA’s Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angelas

2008

Earlier in career, became notorious for Performance Art

Question 8

Answer 8

Maurizio Cattelan

Him

wax, human hair, suit, polyester resin (alternative media & found object)

2001

Artist as Bad Boy, as provocateur who enjoys the outrage of the audience

After successful recent Guggenheim Museum retrospective, claimed he would now retire early from making art

Question 9

Answer 9

Maurizio Cattelan

The Ninth Hour

installation

1999

Illustionistic fabricated elements used with found object elements

Pope John Paul II

Italian artist known for humorously skewering authority and historical figures. Said peice was “a reminder that all power has an expiration date”

Question 10

Answer 10

Francesco Clemente

Moon

tempera (egg-based paint) on handmade paper mounted on muslin

96x91 in (large for work on paper)

made up of 12 seperate attached sheets of handmade paper

much of his content is autobiographical

visual metaphor

italian (with studios in India and NYC), influenced by Indian street signage

Question 11

Answer 11

Francesco Clemente

Miniature, tempera paint/paper

6x8in

Strong influence from tradional India mini abstraction in this image, even as artist included a very modern looking phone

Recalls loneliness of the ex-pat, of life abroad

Question 12

Answer 12

Tara Donovan

(Untitled)

temporary installation

alternative materials/found objects

2003

Styrofoam cups and glue

organic forms

Question 13

Answer 13

Janet Echelman

She Changes

architectural fiber

2005

Work installed at waterfront, Portugal

Early influence on artist: watching fishermen tie nets in India. Collaborated with them in her original designs for durable, flexible, large scale forms.

Crossover to architecture

Question 14

Answer 14

Viola Frey

Earthenware (ceramic) 87 in tall

1982

Larger than life size ceramic figures

Height significant because of technical difficulties of large scale in clay

One of early influential CA artists who moved towards sculpture, expanding clay beyond small, utilitarian ware

Question 15

Answer 15

Ann Hamilton

Accountings

Site specific installation

1992

Transformed entire exhibition space

floor covered with steel tokens

walls drawn on with candle soot (alternative media)

Molded wax votive heads filled vitrine

200 canaries flew free

Question 16

Answer 16

Ann Hamilton

Privation and Excesses

Installation with performance art

1989

Alternative media (honey) with found objects (pennies)

Artist often a silent presence in her installations (in some of her works, she enlists other solo performers to sit quietly)

Question 17

Answer 17

Away from the Flock

Found object in fabricated case (steel/glass/formaldehyde)

Work in a series ft animals

other work in this series is This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Stayed Home

Motorized (kinetic) to slide back and forth

Question 18

Answer 18

Anish Kapoor

Cloud Gate

Permanent feature of Chicago’s Millennium Park

2006

Public Art (frequently a fraught enterprise, but this peice was well recieved by public, artists, and critics)

Reflective surface shows off city’s artchitecture and residents

Site specific

Interior swirls upwards, offering distorted reflections

one of a series of projects, experiemtns with mini architecture

Question 19

Answer 19

Anish Kapoor

A Flower, A Drama Like Death

1986

Intense primary color pigments and simple organic forms typical of this series

UK artist whose vivid colors influenced by spices in markets and clothing of his native India

Question 20

Answer 20

William Kentridge

Stills from recent animation by South African artist

Water based media on found object book pages with collage

Mixes figuratie abstraction with non-objective forms and with text

Question 21

Answer 21

Anselm Kiefer

Isis and Osiris

oil, acrylic emulsion, clay, porcelain, lead copper wire and circut board on canvas

12x18ft

1985-87

Alternative materials with found objects

Alternative methods: blowtorch, ax, etc used in producing heavily textured canvases

Architectural forms are a critique of triumphalism of Nazi architectural design and reference the Holocaust

Question 22

Answer 22

Margaret Kilgallen

Temporary site specific installation; LA parking garage

Hard-edge

figurative abstraction

retro aesthetic

was part of the California street art scene

Deceased

Question 23

Answer 23

Jeff Koons

Balloon Dog (Red) & on wall Moon

High chromium stainless steel with transparent color (creates illusion of soft, air filled party material)

1994-2000

Series of dogs marketed in editions in different colors

Artist as celebrity appropriates forms from mass culture

Kitsch

contracts out fabrication of his 2d and 3d work, relinquishing role of artist as maker

Question 24

Answer 24

Barry McGee

Site specific painted mural/installation on his studio facade

Bay Area artists

figurative abstraction

has parallel art practice: street artist AKA Twist paints for free while he conducts a separte high-end gallery and museum career

Widower of Margaret Kilgallen (some stylistic cross-influence)

Question 25

Answer 25

Barry McGee installation 1998-2002 Mixed media with found objects Drew atop found paper elements (old hand-drawn shop signage, song sheets, etc) Inserted works in junk store frames and presented as wall full of related images in his various installations

Question 26

Answer 26

Kerry James Marshall Untitled (Altgeld Gardens) Unstretched canvas 1995 From large series of monumental paintings, each ft imagined scenes from a different Chicago public housing project Recalls with some irony the optimism of early mid century social experiments in city planning

Question 27

Answer 27

Kerry James Marshall De Style Acrylic and collage on unstretched canvas 1993 African American artist adopts the heroic scale of tradional history paintings Images convey diginity and importance of his individual subjects and asserts their right to have their portriats featured in museum collections Flat areas of composition an homage to 20th century abstraction

Question 28

Answer 28

PO + KO Surrealism (Green) acrylic on board 1999 figurative abstraction hard edge painting influence from anime & other contemporary pop forms

Question 29

Answer 29

Takashi Murakami Installation Geffen Contemporary Museum LA 2007 Japanese artist mines pop culture Kitsch mass produced platic merchandise one influence

Question 30

Answer 30

Shirin Neshat Rebellious Silence Black/white photo 11x14in self portriat with face altered with Farsi text by contemporary women poets writing about martyrdom and the Revolution 1994 Iranian born US artist looking at woman's place in culture Visual art as political activism

Question 31

Answer 31

Shirin Neshat Munis and Revolutionary Man C-print & ink including performance Feminist narrative

Question 32

Answer 32

Tony Oursler Let's Switch installation with small crudely fabricated stuffed forms he then alters by video projection Videotapes actors speaking lines from his scripts Makes characters switch positions by alternation projectsion on the 2 cloth dummies Example of postmodern artist crossing boundaries between visual art and theater

Question 33

Answer 33

Tony Oursler Dum-Dum Video installation Milan 2007 Subject: the horrors of war Videos presented (ironically) in a funhouse like atmosphere intended to make visitor off balance

Question 34

Answer 34

Cornelia Parker Anti-Mass Installation Alternative materials (including burnt wood) with wire and string Found fragments (from burnt KY church) Some illusion of movement, where static peices appear animated UK artist

Question 35

Answer 35

Richard Prince Untitled (Cowboy) Ektacolor photographic print 24x20in Appropriation of images from mass culture, especially advertising Raises questions about ownership of image and of originality in art in artist's recasting models then meticulously rephotographing Marlboro cigarette ads Commentary on myth of the west and masculinity Also did The Blue Cowboys piece

Question 36

Answer 36

Martin Puryear The Nightmare red cedar (painted) 2001-2002 Experience as Peace Corps volunteer exposed him to tradional African crafts and apprach to materials and vessels influencing froms such as this Some works construted without power tools Artist cites early influence from his family's knowledge of boat and furniture making

Question 37

Answer 37

Neo Rauch Waiting for the Barbarians Oil/canvas 2007 Born in E. Germany, year before the Berlin Wall divided his country Chose to remain in Leipzig after reunification Enigmatic, layered images with implied but unclear narratives. Influcences from retro adveritising, comics and from early, noble-worker-Soviet-era propaganda images of his youth plays with scale

Question 38

Answer 38

Neo Rauch Felson oil on canvas 20x16in 2001

Question 39

Answer 39

Gerhard Richter Atlas Sheet 399: Still Lives 6 color photos German artist known for eclecticism Avoids restricting himself to a style, medium, etc. Candle image reused in his large Photorealist oil canvases

Question 40

Answer 40

Richard Serra 7 rolled steel plate sculptures Installation at Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain Steel 2" thick, but gives false impression material is easily manipulated US sculptor in this series crosses line between sculpture and architecture, forming (sometimes uncomfortably) narrow passageways for visitor to follow

Question 41

Answer 41

Do-Ho Suh Seoul Home/LA Home/NY Home/Baltimore Home/London Home/Seattle Home Silk Meditation by widely travelled Koream artist on the meaning of home Example of sculptor captivated by architecture as art form Traditional material emplyed in contemporary visual metaphor More concerned with conventional beauty than some contemporary artists

Question 42

Answer 42

Do-Ho Suh Part of a series in which artist finds beauty and nobility in military artifacts, in the art and art history of war alternative material: commerically fabricated militaray IDs (dogtags) to build traditional vestment

Question 43

Answer 43

Akio Takamori Village People 20-36 in heights stoneware 2000 japanese-american artist known for confident, intuitive tradional mastery of ink and bamboo brush, here used on 3d clay surface Figurative abstraction Pattern Medium exploited for its sculptural (non-functional) potential

Question 44

Answer 44

Ursula Von Rydingsvard Laminated, carved cedar blocks, cast brozne, graphite Aggressively carved organic abstract forms Chain saws and fine hand tools both used executing large-scale pieces Ironic she reassembles and re-forms lumber to make art which depicts trees polish born spenct early years in WWII refugee camps

Question 45

Answer 45

Jeff Wall Staged photo transparency in lightbox Large scale intended to fill viewers vision Backlighting offers illusion of real space Photographer as designer, builder, director, etc Implied narrative of abuse: vandalism of a woman's room Canadian artist

Question 46

Answer 46

Rachel Whiteread Vienna Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial Site specific concrete cast form Vienna square former site of synagogue. Area populated by Jews before some fled and other later evicted to death camps in WWII UK sculptor crosses over into (modest-scale) Minimalist architecture

Question 47

Answer 47

Rachel Whiteread Untitled (Orange Bath) rubber, polystyrene 1996 Sculptor experiments widely with industrial materials minimalist approach to design

Question 48

Answer 48

Krzysztof (K) Wodiczko Temporary projection on Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC 1988 Politically motivated Polish born US artist (Early illegal projects on govt bldgs in Eastern Europe put him in some jeopardy) Calling public's attention to gun violence in US visual metaphor

Question 49

Answer 49

Krzysztof (K) Wodiczko The Tijuana Projection Projected video with audio on (globular-shaped) building at Mexico/US border 2001 Narrative art which highlights the plight of individual factory workers who, reading their own troubled stories aloud, had opportunity to broadcast their concerns to San Diego side of border Large-scale work used to gain attention for his political concerns Immigrant artist as socially engaged activist

Question 50

Kitsch

Answer 50

Sentimentaltiy, tastelessness, tackiness May refer to certain kinds of mass-produced items or to popular taste that displays such anti-high-art aesthetics, ex: a plaster verison of Durer's Praying Hands, sprayed with glitter

Question 51

Appropriation

Answer 51

Taking and using some (major) element from art or non-art source without permission. In contemporary art, a trend in which visual content is lifted with or without attribution, which often makes the most of reference while changing context ex: Paul McCarthy's (ironic) use of Disney's Pinocchio

Question 52

Narrative (art)

Answer 52

Story, account of events Art work concerned with story telling. Often this includeds animate figures. Some performance aspects in art we screened included narrative elements

Question 53

Kinetic (art)

Answer 53

Related to, or caused by, or producing motion. In art, most often refers to sculpture with moving parts

Question 54

Performance Art

Answer 54

Visual art experiment of past several decades which usually involves time, space, and artist's body in what may be scripted or spontaneous event. Many, but certainly not all, performance art pieces are presented in galleries. In its purest form, the performance itself is the (however ephemeral) work of art, which may or may not have been documented. In may works we studied this semester, however, performance has been just one aspect on the way to creating the work we remember, i.e the photograph or video