Postmodernism Final Exam AEAH 4813 Latest 2023 Complete

Postmodernism Final Exam AEAH 4813 Latest 2023 Complete The New Realism - Yves Klein Fluxus Readymade, assemblage, collage Bring art and life together Accumulation - collective things together in one to create an artwork sculptural Poubelle - trash in french, found objects Snapshot Aesthetic in Art Photography - everyday subject matter and off-centered framing Robert Frank started the aesthetic The Americans - Book by Robert Frank, intro by Jack Kerouac shows everyday life throughout America Clement Greenberg - Art critic, supported abstract expressionism Wrote essay about Kitsch Clement Greenberg on Modernist Sculpture and Modernist Painting - Through a self-criticism, it is that artist's responsibility to find what's unique to each medium Post-Painterly Abstraction - Post-painterly abstraction is a broad term that encompasses a variety of styles that evolved in reaction to the painterly, gestural approaches of some Abstract Expressionists. Hard-Edge Painting - Painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas. Color areas are often of one unvarying color. The Hard-edge painting style is related to Geometric abstraction, Op Art, Post-painterly Abstraction, and Color Field painting. Op Art - style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op art works are abstract, with many better known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or warping. Kinetic Art - art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect Light and Space Art - loosely affiliated art movement related to op art, minimalism and geometric abstraction originating in Southern California in the 1960s and influenced by John McLaughlin. The International Style - rectilinear forms light, taut plane surfaces that have been completely stripped of applied ornamentation and decoration open interior spaces a visually weightless quality engendered by the use of cantilever construction Glass and steel, in combination with usually less visible reinforced concrete, are the characteristic materials of the construction. Minimalism - a trend in sculpture and painting that arose in the 1950s and used simple, typically massive, forms. Intimidating Donald Judd on "Specific Objects" - neutral, discrete nature box like objects not painting or sculpture Robert Morris on the gestalt, unitary objects, and scale - Unitary form is something you can see and understand all at once Gestalt is something as a whole Scale is important, large sized objects exhibit more specifically as an element Michael Fried on art, objecthood, and theatricality - The viewer becomes an actor viewing the art on a stage, in time and space. The experience is theatrical. Theatre exists for one When you experience a modernist work of art, it is all there for you. You lose yourself in time. "Presentness is grace" Conceptual Art - art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Performance Art - a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. Body Art - People using their body as sculpture Politics and Postmodernism - People used their political views in their art, used art to promote them Feminism - Movement in the 60s/70s to empower women. Feminist art program, Barbara Krueger, Judy Chicago, Guerrilla Girls Feminist Art and Criticism - critical examination of both visual representations of women in art and art produced by women. Feminist Art Program - first feminist art program in the United States. Fifteen students studied under Chicago at Fresno State College. Womanhouse. Laura Mulvey on the Male Gaze - "voyeuristic" (i.e. seeing woman as image "to be looked at") and