Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images.
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Final Exam Guide
The final exam will be held on Tuesday, May 24 from 2:15 to 4 pm
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| Key Images Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images. |
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| John Cage | 4'33" | 1952 | |
| Frank Stella | Die Fahne Hoch | 1959 | |
| Joseph Kosuth | One and Three Chairs | 1965 | |
| Yoko Ono | Cut Piece | 1965 | |
| Ed Kienholz | The State Hospital | 1966 | |
| Donald Judd | Untitled | 1968 | |
| Carl Andre | Steel Magnesium Plain | 1969 | |
| Robert Smithson | Spiral Jetty | 1970 | |
| Judy Chicago | The Dinner Party | 1974 - 1979 | |
| Carolee Schneeman | Interior Scroll | 1975 -1977 | |
| Cindy Sherman | Untitled Film Still #6 | 1979 | |
| Sherrie Levine | After Walker Evans #4 | 1979 | |
| Richard Serra | Tilted Arc | 1981 | |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | Charles the First | 1982 | |
| Andres Serrano | Piss Christ | 1987 | |
| Gerhard Richter | Betty | 1988 | |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres | Placebo | 1991 | |
| Janine Antoni | Gnaw | 1992 | |
| Chris Ofili | The Holy Virgin Mary | 1996 | |
| Guerrilla Girls | Do Women Have to Be Naked? | 2005 | |
Key Terms Know the definition and historical significance of the following terms. |
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| Appropriation | Globalism |
Photorealism |
| Art Boom | Grisaille |
Postmodernism |
| The "aura" | Iconographic approach |
Post-Structuralism |
| Biographic approach | Identity politics |
Process Art |
| Body Politics | Jouissance |
Psychoanalytic approach |
| Cremaster | Male Gaze Theory |
Semiotic approach |
| Culture Wars | Marxist approach |
Sensation |
| Death of the Author | NEA |
Simulacra |
| Essentialism | Neo-Expressionism |
Trompe l'oeil |
| Feminism | Pastiche |
Untitled Film Still series |
| Feminist Art Program | Perfect Moment |
Whitney Biennial |
| Feminist approach | Pictures Generation |
Womanhouse |
| Formalist approach | YBAs |
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People |
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Walter Benjamin |
Laura Mulvey |
Linda Nochlin |
Charles Saatchi |
| Questions to consider |
| What key events launched the feminist art movement? what were the chief concerns of feminist artists during the 1970s? |
| Why was painting declared dead in the 1970s? Why did artists resurrect it in the 1980s? |
How does Postmodern art differ from Modern art? What does Postmodernism reject and what does it embrace? |
Why were Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still series some of the first works to be considered Postmodern? Are they self-portraits? |
What were Jean-Michel Basquiat’s themes and what symbols did he repeatedly use? |
What spawned the 80s art boom? What effects did the boom have on the kinds of work that were produced? What happened to the art market after the crash of 1989? |
| What controversies surrounded Andres Serrano's, Robert Mapplethorpe's and Ron Athey's work? What did the controversies result in? |
| Why were artists of the 90s so interested in identity? What historic events may have encouraged such exploration? |
| Why did artists "return" to the body in the 90s? In what new ways did they handle the subject? |
| What are some of the current themes in contemporary art today? |
| Styles and
Movements You will be asked to identify the style or movement the following works are associated. |
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Artwork |
Style |
| Jean Dubuffet. Large Sooty Nude. 1944. | Art brut |
| Arshile Gorky. The Liver is the Cock's Comb. 1944. | New York School |
| Alberto Giacometti. Man Pointing. 1947. | European Avant Garde |
| Robert Motherwell. At Five in the Afternoon. 1949. | Abstract Expressionism |
| Jackson Pollock. Number 1. 1950. | Abstract Expressionism |
| Willem De Kooning. Excavation. 1950. | Abstract Expressionism |
| Barnett Newman. Vir Heroicus Sublimis. 1950-51. | Color Field |
| David Smith. Hudson River Landscape. 1951. | New York School |
| Helen Frankenthaler. Mountains and Sea. 1952. | Color Field |
| Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1952 - 3. | Abstract Expressionism |
| Alberto Burri. Saccho H8. 1953. | Art Informel |
| Francis Bacon. Study After Velazquez's Pope Innocent X. 1953. | Abstract Expressionism |
| Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954-55. | Neo Dada |
| Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram. 1955-59. | Neo Dada |
| Mark Rothko. Green and Tangerine on Red. 1956. | Post-Painterly Abstraction |
| Lee Krasner. Easter Lilies. 1957. | Abstract Expressionism |
| Frank Stella. Die Fahne Hoch. 1959. | Post-painterly Abstraction |
| Yves Klein. Leap Into the Void. 1960. | Nouveaux Realiste |
| Andy Warhol. 32 Campbell's Soup Cans. 1961 - 62. | Pop Art |
| Tony Smith. Die. 1962. | Minimalism |
| Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl. 1963. | Pop Art |
| Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Chairs. 1965. | Conceptualism |
Yoko Ono. Cut Piece. 1965. |
Performance Art |
| Eva Hesse. Hang Up. 1965. | Process Art |
| James Rosenquist. F-111. 1965. | Pop Art |
| Ed Kienholz. The State Hospital. 1966. | West Coast Funk |
| Donald Judd. Untitled. 1968. | Minimalism |
| Carl Andre . Steel Magnesium Plain. 1969. | Minimalism |
| Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty. 1970. | Earthwork |
| Chris Burden. Shoot. 1971. | Performance Art |
| Judy Chicago. The Dinner Party. 1974 - 79. | Feminsim/ Installation |
| Carolee Schneeman. Interior Scroll. 1975-77. | Feminism/ Performance art |
| Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #6. 1979. | Postmodernism |
| Sherrie Levine. After Walker Evans #4. 1979. | Postmodernism/ Appropriation |
| Richard Serra. Tilted Arc. 1981. | Minimalism |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat. Charles the First. 1982. | Neo Expressionism |
| Andres Serrano. Piss Christ. 1987. | Postmodernism/ Body politics |
| Gerhard Richter. Betty. 1988. | Photorealism |
| Sally Mann. Candy Cigarette. 1989. | Postmodernism/ Identity Politics |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Placebo. 1991. | Postmodernism/ Identity Politics |
| Damien Hirst. The Physical Impossibility of Death... 1991. | YBA |
| Janine Antoni. Gnaw. 1992. | Postmodern/ Body Politics |
| Matthew Barney. Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate. 1994. | Postmodernism |
| Chris Ofili. The Holy Virgin Mary. 1996. | YBA |
| Kara Walker. Slavery! Slavery! 1997. | Postmodernism/ Identity Politics |
| Catherine Opie. Oliver in a Tutu. 2004. | Postmodernism/ Identity Politics |
| Guerilla Girls. Do Women Have to Be Naked? 2005. | Postmodernism/ Gender Politics |