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HUM#4 Artists etc.
World War II to Contemporary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Louis Armstrong | Jazz. Also known as "Satchmo". One of the first musicians to be featured with extended trumpet solos. Also known for his distinctive gravelly singing voice. |
| Elvis Presley | Rock and Roll. White but sounds black enough to be a popular commercial success. "The King" |
| The Beatles | Rock and Roll. Boy band that developed through the ages. John, Paul, George, Ringo |
| Franz Kafka | Modernism. German-Jewish writer. |
| Marc Chagall | Modernism. Jewish. Artist, painter. "the fiddler", "the bride and groom". He worked with war damaged buildings. Stained glass in the chichester cathedral - shared heritage (old tesament). Attempt to heal wounds and bring people together after the war |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Modernism. Wrote "peter and the wolf" to demonstrate how very accessible he could be. |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Modernism. Parodied the ideas of triumph and centralization "the rejoicing is forced, as if under threat". |
| Albert Speer | Fascist. Architect. Nazi party rally grounds, Nuremberg. Dominating intimidating architecture that made you feel small. Used slave labor |
| Leni Riefenstahl | Fascist. Film maker "triumph of the will" |
| Marcello Piacentini | Fascist. Italian arcitect "epositzione universale europa" for the 1942 world fair (palazzo degli uffici) |
| Diego Rivera | Mexican Mural Movement. "man, controller of the universe". Caused controversy because Lenin was in the painting. |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Existentialism. French. Key figure in existentialism, as well as in marxism. |
| Simone de Beauvoir | Existentialism. French writer, political activist, and feminist. Feminist existentialism |
| Albert Camus | Existentialism. Awarded a nobel prize in litterature. |
| Samuel Beckett | Existentialism. Irish novelist and playwright |
| Sylvia Plath | Feminism. Poet. Confessional poetry (personal with the use of 'I') |
| Willem de Kooning | Abstract Expressionism. "woman II" "woman III" |
| Jackson Pollock | Action Painting/Abstract Expressionism. You know this guy, he just painted with lines, colors, random stuff |
| Mark Rothko | Color Field Painting. Untitled works. It's basically nothing but color, more blocky |
| Georgia O’Keefe | American Modernism. "rams head, white hollyhock, and little hills", "white trumpet flower" - Flower closeups |
| Helen Frankenthaler | Color Field Painting. More circles and smooth than the other painter |
| Alexander Calder | Mobiles. Non-representational. |
| Alan Ginsberg | “The Beat Generation”. Poet and writer. Post-war |
| Frida Kahlo | Surrealism. "frida and diego", "roots", "two fridas", "self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird" |
| Jasper Johns | Obvious image. Painted the american flag |
| Claes Oldenburg | Pop Art. Sculpture. Large replicas of everyday objects. "floor burger", "apple core", "spoonbridge and cherry" |
| Andy Warhol | Pop Art. "campbells soup" and "Marylin Dyptich" |
| Roy Lichtenstein | Pop Art. One panel of cartoon, we don't know the rest of the story. "whaam!" "drowning girl" "oh jeff, I love you too but..." |
| Robert Smithson | Environmental Art. Spiral Jetty |
| Donald Judd | Minimalism. Sculptures with just like blocks and shelf kind of things |
| Philip Glass | Minimalism. Composer. Music with repetitive structures. Concert hall music. Film "Koyannisqatsi" |
| John Williams | Popular Culture. Composer of a bunch of popular film scores (including star wars, jaws, indianna jones, jurrasic park, harry potter, etc). |
| Maya Lin | Environmental Art. Focus on land and earth art. Like more geographical art kind of. |
| Renzo Piano | Postmodernism. Arcitect. Kinda cool building designs. |
| Frank Gehry | Postmodernism. Architect with cool building designs that seem impossible and they're all wavy and seem to have movement. Stuff you saw in one of the videos we had to watch thanksgiving break. "guggenheim museum" |
| Robert Venturi | Postmodernism. Known for the difficult whole. Las Vegas |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda | Postmodernism. Hip-hop composer. Wrote Hamilton and Moana. |
| Victor Fleming | Hollywood. Director of Wizard of Oz |
| Steven Spielberg | Hollywood. Director of Indiana Jones, Jaws, Jurassic Park, etc. |
| Christopher Nolan | Hollywood. Director best known for Batman |
| Faith Ringgold | Impressionism and cubism. Quilts. Gender and race equality. |
| Nam June Paik | Neo-dada. Video art. "Electronic super highway" |
| Bill Viola | Contemporary art. Video art with nature, fire, and water. |
| Christo and Jeanne Claude | Arte Povera movement. Huge outdoor temporary structures, usually with fabric. |
| Damien Hirst | Contemporary. Controversial artist. Worked with dead animals, polka dots, and skeletons. |
| Andy Goldsworthy | Environmental art. Sculpture and photographer. Works with nature in nature. |
| Anish Kapoor | Neo-expressionism, contemporary art. Large sculptures. "The Bean" in chicago. Lots of red. |
| Abraham Cruzvillegas | Autoconstrucction, autodestruccion - self-construction and destruction. Takes garbage and compiles them into a heap of order or disorder. |
| Shirin Neshat | Contemporary art. Contrasts between men and women, islam and west, etc. Film, video, photography. |
| David Bradley | Modernist. Parodied famous paintings with a Native American twist. |
| Monster Chetwynd | Performance artist. Made handmade (papermache) props. Sculpture in front of a painting. |
| Nikia Gale | Sculpture, film, text, sound. Musical instruments. |
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