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Organized in Zurich 1916 by Hugo Ball
In the Cabaret Voltaire
Banded together—writers, musicians, etc.
Despised ‘high-art’
Loathed art dealers, collectors, galleries
Believed art should derive from life
Poked fun at high society and high art institutions |
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The artist did not make it
It is not a unique object
It has no visual or aesthetic properties to make it art
Its too commonplace and uncouth
I am the artist and it is my intent that it is art |
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| Dada artists: Raoul hausmann and Hannah Hoch |
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Emphasis on 2-D art ->collage
Development of graphic arts (design and printing)
Their name for collage ->montage or phototage |
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1960
Believe art must emerge from daily life
Flux-roman word meaning something is always shifting, changing, constantly moving. |
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Isolates a sensory art of everyday life to bring us in direct encounter with the self.
Wrote book of instructions for creating art.
Ladder piece |
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First to use video film and TV monitors in his art
Conceptual music
Worked with Charlotte Moorman |
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Avant garde composer
“there is no such thing as silence”
Music is sound |
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I Like America and America Likes Me
Shaman
Uses art to heal both personally and universally |
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| Fluxus based: Installations |
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Use sculptural materials and other media to modify the way the viewer experiences a particular space.
Performance pieces
Involve time-based performances that may involve objects, sound, film |
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Performance based activist group
Life and art merging |
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| Ancient systems and structures |
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Ancient building devices
The pyramid
Post and lintel construction (load bearing)
The arch
Cement
The dome |
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| Make sure building doesn’t fall in |
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The Marshall Field Warehouse
Thick stone walls
Load-bearing
Height limited
Arched windows
Massive
Giant bind on top to hide water system |
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| Two changes in technology altered architecture |
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High tensile strength steel (alloy)
Use of reinforced concrete |
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Used new technology of steel I-Beams and concrete to build deep overhangs called cantilevers.
House should be integrated into its site and environment
Wished to emphasize horizontality of Midwest |
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Louis Sullivan
The Wainwright Building in STL |
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The Kaufman House
Creek runs through house
Guggenheim Museum |
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Horizontal/vertical plane structures
Very clean and “pure” appearance
White washing |
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Le Corbusier
Machines for living
Uncomplicated |
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Design school in Germany
Industrial design
Woodworking
Weaving
Based in craft tradition
Craft indicates a link to function and to the system of master and apprentice |
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Flees to U.S and brings International style
True glass and steel skyscrapers
Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago
Seagram building, NYC |
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| characteristics of Modernism |
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Sleek design
Geometric purity
Everything derived from the “grid”
White, sparseness
Unadorned surfaces (lack of decoration)
Cold stainless steel |
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| A reaction against the minimalist tendency of modernism. Architects borrowed styles and motifs from past cultures, other architects + appropriation |
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Buildings are blocky
Details playful
Colorful
Ornamentation
Fluid and lyrical |
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| The Disney Hall, titanium structures |
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| Popular culture, post war economic and population boom |
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Serigraphy/silkscreen
A printmaking technique that utilizes stencils that are either cut or burned into a screen. The ink is pushed through the screen using a squeegee. This is a process that creates multiple copies.
Appropriated media images |
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| early type of technology that influenced invention of cameras |
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1st fixed image, 1826
8 hour exposure |
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Civil war photography
Took pictures of Lincoln |
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Aperture controls light (opening in camera)
Shutter speed
Depth of field—controlled by aperture
F stop |
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| Andre Kertesz and Ed Weston |
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| Cropped scenes, close up views, and this created abstracted viewpoints |
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| What did the depression bring about in photography? |
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| 1930’s U.S depression brought realism and documentary quality back into the field of photography. Walker Evans and Dorthea Lange |
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Holes align with constellations
Manipulating environment
Frames what she wants you to see
Ancient systems of star-gazing |
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| 400 stainless steel poles arranged in a regular grid formation over an area of land that is one square mile |
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Spends months gathering “art” materials (pollen)
Meticulously arranged indoor installations
Will not last in nature |
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The Greeting, installed at Venice Biennale in 1995
Stations
Room for st. john of the cross
Jacopo de pontormo, the visitation |
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| used the technique of recombinant work or collage, in which various texts and image are combined or “recombined” in a discordant, nonsensical or random manner and involves the juxtaposition and transformation of imagery and often the appropriation of mass media. Perhaps the narrative develops based on the unfolding juxtaposition of images. |
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Touch sanitation
Her work collapses social boundaries we all adhere to in daily life |
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Turned a mechanical process into “fine art”
He started simplifying by cropping images and isolating bold forms. Abstracting
His cloud studies became the first fully abstracted photographs. |
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