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Chapter 22
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Clement Greenberg | was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century. Remembered for his promotion of the abstract expressionist movement, Jackson Pollock. |
| Jackson Pollock | most famous paintings were made during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950. He rocketed to fame following an August 8, 1949 four-page spread in Life magazine that asked, "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States? |
| Willem de Kooning | He was a leading figure of Abstract Expressionism. His style strongly influenced art after World War II, attended the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and Techniques and was drawn to Cubism. |
| Color Field Painting | A style of American abstract painting prominent from the late 1940s to the 1960s that features large expanses of unmodulated color covering the greater part of the canvas |
| Louise Nevelson | was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. |
| Helen Frankenthaler | color field work was characterized by the use of hues that were similar in tone or intensity, as well as large formats and simplified compositions. Her style is notable in its emphasis on spontaneity, |
| Assemblage | is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate |
| Robert Rauschenberg | was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Well known for his Combines, which incorporated everyday objects as art materials and which blurred the distinctions between painting and sculpture |
| Jasper Johns | played with and presented opposites, contradictions, paradoxes, and ironies, much like Marcel Duchamp (who was associated with the Dada movement). producesdintaglio prints, sculptures and lithographs with similar motifs |
| Happening | A performance, event, or situation meant to be considered art, usually as performance art, occur anywhere and are often multi-disciplinary, with a nonlinear narrative and the active participation of the audience. |
| Pop Art | art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. Presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising |
| Andy Warhol | Art used many types of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music, studio was called The Factory |
| Roy Lichenstein | produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. |
| Frank Stella | is an American painter and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York. Known for Protractor Series |
| Photo-realism | was coined in reference to those artists whose work depended heavily on photographs, which they often projected onto canvas allowing images to be replicated with precision and accuracy. |
| Chuck Close | An American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist through his large-scale portraits |
| Conceptual Art | is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns, may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions. |
| Solomon "Sol" LeWitt | was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism, regarded as a founder of both Minimal and Conceptual art. |
| Marcel Duchamp | French painter, sculptor, whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art, one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century |
| Donald Judd | was a painter until the early 1960s, when he began making work in three dimensions which changed the idea of art. Throughout his lifetime he advocated for the importance of art and artistic expression |
| Eva Hesse | was a Jewish German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics, associated with the Postminimal art movement. One of the first artists who moved from Minimalism to Postminimalism. |
| Bruce Nauman | Artist that defied the traditional notion that an artist should have one signature style and a visually unified oeuvre. includes fiberglass sculptures, abstract body casts, neon wall reliefs displaying cast-aluminum animal carcasses |
| Marina Abramović | Grandmother of performance art, is a Serbian performance artist based in New York. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. |
| Walter Joseph De Maria | was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City.; artistic practice is connected with minimal art, conceptual art, and land art of the 1960s. Most famous work: Lightning Field |
| Joseph Kosuth | Artist that belonged to a broadly international generation of conceptual artists that began to emerge in the mid-1960s, stripping art of personal emotion, reducing it to nearly pure information or idea and greatly playing down the art object |
| Joan Jonas | is an American visual artist and a pioneer of video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s, influential in the creation of video performance art as a medium |
| Magdalena Abakanowicz | s a Polish sculptor and fiber artist, notable for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium. She was a professor at Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland from 1965 to 1990 and a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles in 1984. |
| Judy Chicago | is an American feminist artist known for large collaborative art installation pieces examines the role of women in history. work incorporates stereotypical women's artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with stereotypical male skills. |
| Postmodernism | describes both an era and a broad movement that developed in the mid to late 20th century, typically defined by an attitude of skepticism or distrust toward grand narratives, ideologies, and various tenets of Enlightenment rationality, |
| Sherrie Levine | s an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. She is best known for her reproductions of significant male artists' works through the medium of photography, so as to discuss notions of authenticity and originality |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat | Neoexpressionist who achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, writing enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop music culture. |
| Guerrilla Girls | were formed by seven women artists in the spring of 1985 in response to the inaugural show in the MoMA's newly renovated and expanded building, and was planned to be a survey of the most important contemporary art and artists in the world. |
| Jenny Holzer | is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces. |
| Glenn Ligon | is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Created paintings, prints and drawings using phrases written or uttered by personalities like Mary Shelley, James Baldwin and Malcolm X |
| Olia Lialina | is an Russian Internet artist and theorist, an experimental film and video critic and curator. |
| Bill Viola | is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness |
| Terry Winters | is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art |
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