Midterm Study Guide
The midterm exam will be held on March 15
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| Key Images Be able to identify the title, artist and date of the following images. |
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| Artist | Title | Date |
Thumbnail Image |
Jean Dubuffet |
Large Sooty Nude |
1944 |
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Arshile Gorky |
The Liver is the Cock's Comb |
1944 |
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Robert Motherwell |
At Five in
the Afternoon |
1949 |
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Jackson Pollock |
Number 1 |
1949 |
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Willem de Kooning |
Excavation |
1950 |
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David Smith |
Hudson River
Landscape |
1951 |
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Willem de Kooning |
Woman I |
1950 - 52 |
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Alberto Burri |
Sacco H8 |
1953 |
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Helen Frankenthaler |
Mountains and Sea |
1952 |
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Francis Bacon |
Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X |
1953 |
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| Jasper Johns | Flag | 1954-55 |  |
| Robert Rauschenberg | Untitled (Man with the White Shoes) | 1954 |  |
| Robert Frank | Trolley- New Orleans | 1955 - 56 |  |
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| Andy Warhol | 32 Campbell's Soup Cans | 1961 - 62 |  |
| Roy Lichtenstein | Drowning Girl | 1963 |  |
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Key Terms Know the definition and historical significance of the following terms. |
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Abstraction |
Postmodernism |
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Abstract Expressionism |
Existentialism |
Purified abstraction |
Action Painting |
Federal Arts Program |
Semiotics |
Allover composition |
Figurative |
Silkscreen |
Armory Show |
Formalism |
Regionalism |
Art Brut |
Kitsch |
Representational |
Art Informel |
The Mainstream |
Social relevance |
Art of This Century Gallery |
Modernism |
Structuralism |
Automatism |
The Modern Man |
Sublime |
Avant-Garde |
MOMA |
Surrealism |
The Beat Generation |
Mural |
The Spanish Civil War |
Benday Dots |
Neo Dada |
Tachisme |
World War II |
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Consumer Culture |
The New York School |
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Elegy |
Picture plane |
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Encaustic |
Pop Art |
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| People Know the contributions, and the significance of those contributions, each of the following people made to the history of art. |
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Georges Bataille |
Marcel Duchamp |
Mexican muralists |
Thomas Hart Benton |
Clement Greenberg |
Harold Rosenberg |
| Questions to consider |
What elements characterize modern art? |
What events and circumstances prompted the shift of art world power from Paris to New York? |
How was a sense of community fostered amongst artists living in New York during and after WWII? Why was this community so important to American artists? |
What problem did Peggy Guggenheim propose to critics in the 1945 exhibition “A Problem for Critics?” |
What characteristics/ approaches did the New York School artists share? Why did they prefer to be called the “New York School” instead of “Abstract Expressionists?” |
Why did Harold Rosenberg call the work of the New York School "Action Painting?" |
What was so innovative about Jackson Pollock’s drip technique? |
How did David Smith apply the language of painting to sculpture? |
What were the core ideas to Greenberg's formalism? |
Rauschenberg said, "Painting relates to both art and life. I try to act in that gap between the two." Explain what he meant by this. |
Why are the works of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg considered a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art? In what ways are the works of Rauschenberg and Johns both impersonal and personal? |
What was the main source of inspiration for Pop artists? |