Method/style of conveying/portraying something that is widely used and recognized

representation conveying meaning other then the literal. Communicates by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation.

Device used to present an idea, principle or meaning, presented in a literary form. 

Ex) Sandro Botticelli Primavera

Appropriation

The taking or borrowing of elements to re-contexualize them or create new works. Borrowed from images, forms, styles from history, pop culture, materials, techniques and from non art contexts. 

New work recontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work- which comments on the original

original remains accessible

ex) Marcel Duchamp Fountain + L.H.O.O.Q

Placing items close to one another to contrast similarities that convey a message.

attention drawn to similarities + differenecs

ex) Rene Magritte The Lovers

Works artistic value is entirely based of its form, the way it is made, visual aspects +medium

Emphasizes compositional elements like line, colour, shape

Everything necessary to understaing he piece is within the artwork.

Ex) Barnett Newman Voice of fire

Abstract=seperate/withdraw something from something else. Artist has started w/ visible object then abstracted elements to make it less/more simplified

Non-Objective-Wholly devoid of any reference to the natural world. Uses geometric imagery.

Objective ex) Marc Chagall Calvary

Non Objective ex) Ad reinhardt Abstract painting

Aimed at influencing attitude of communities towards common cause

Ex) Norman Rockwell Rosie the riveter

Statement about current society

ex) Diego Rivera Man at the crossroads

-Invention of photography in 1830's attempt greater realism. 

-Artists began to question the need to refer to the outside world at all

-Development of abstract art

-decline in patronage

-dealers began to sell uncommisioned art by 19th century

-large-scale, dramatic abstract paintings

-2 types: Action painting +colour field paintings

-Caused NY to displace Paris

-images were rebellious, anarchic and highly personal

"gestural abstraction" 

-paint spontaniously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto canvas

-emphasizes act of painting itself

-touch observer deep in subconscience mind.

Ex) William de kooning Woman I

Jackson pollock Number 31

-large fields of flat, areas of flat solid colour spread across or stained into the canvas making it flat +unbroken

-Favors consistency of form + process

-inspired by european modernism 

Ex) Barnett Newman vir heroicus sublis

Mark Rothko No.5/No.22

geometric abstraction art manipulates viewers response+creates illusion of movement

-theories of psychology of perception

-Bridget Riley used changes of colour and wavy lines to add movement

-Victor Vasarely founder

Ex) Victor Vasarely Vega Multi

Bridget Riley Dominance Portfolio, Blue

All media +portrayed images from pop culture

-celebration of western consummerism

-evokes brash, colorful world of advertising, comic strips, popular entertainment

ex) Richard Hamilton "J.W.I.I.T.M.T.H.S.D.S.A?

Roy Lichtstein Little big painting

Claes Oldenburn Giant Three way plug

-Intellectual art consisting of little so viewer is forced to scrutinize formal properties of what is there.

-Rigorously geometric, repetition of identical objects

ex) Untitled(Barnett Newman) Dan Flavin 

Untitled (Henri Matisse) Dan Flavin

Kazmir Malevich Black Square

-Emphasizes ideas underlying works of art as protest against commercialism of art world

-used photo's, texts, to document action/express idea

-think beyond limits of traditional media, work out their concept or idea in what ever material/form is appropriate

Ex) Land art

involves going out into nature and making a mark on it

-the remains are photographic sometimes combined with maps, test, etc..

Ex) Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty

Jean claude + Christo Running Fence

-Denotes art of present day and relativly recent past of innovatory/ avante garde in nature

-Jeff Koons(Neo-Pop Kitsch style) Michael Jackson + Bubbles, Hanging Heart, Balloon dog

-Jean Michael Basquiat

-Damien Hirst For the love of God

-Richard Prince

-Zhang Xiaogang