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Dada-Feminism(Use Leonardo/Mona Lisa if prompted for login)
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
12/10/2010

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[image]
Definition

Performance from Cabaret Voltaire

Hugo Ball

Dada

1910's-20's

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[image]
Definition

Collage Arranged According to Laws of Chance

Jean Arp

Dada

1910's-20's

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[image]
Definition

Portrait of Cezanne

Francis Picabia

Dada

1910's-20's

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[image]
Definition

Nude Descending a Staircase

Marcel Duchamp

Dada

1910's-20's

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[image]
Definition

LHOOQ

Marcel Duchamp

Dada

1910's-20's

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[image]
Definition

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

Dada

1910's-20's

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Iconoclasm
Definition
The deliberate destruction of a culture's own artwork, typically religious
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Readymades
Definition
Objects that were not made with the intention of being art, but then turned into art by an artist (see: Fountain, Duchamp)
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Rayograph
Definition
Images made without a camera; objects placed directly on the photo paper
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[image]
Definition

The Treachery of Images

Rene Magritte

Surrealism

1920's-30's

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[image]
Definition

Personal Values

Rene Magritte

Surrealism

1920's-30's

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[image]
Definition

The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali

Surrealism

1920's-30's

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[image]
Definition

THe Weaning of Furniture Food

Salvador Dali

Surrealism

1920's-30's

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[image]
Definition

Henry Ford Hospital

Frida Kahlo

Surrealism

1920's-30's

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[image]
Definition

Self Portrait with Crown of Thorns

Frida Kahlo

Surrealism

1920's-30's

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Andre Breton
Definition
Principal founder of Surrealism
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"Pure Psychic Automatism"
Definition
How Breton defined Surrealism
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Automatic writing
Definition
Writing something with supposedly no conscious thought.
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The Exquisite Corpse
Definition
A "game" created by the surrealist where a collection of images or words is assembled in collaboration (such as writing a few sentences, covering up part of it, and handing it off to have the next person finish it)
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Juxtaposition
Definition
Placing things side by side
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Retablos
Definition
When an important event occurs, one will go out and find a scrap and paint a picture thanking God for whatever (See: Kahlo, Henry Ford Hospital)
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[image]
Definition

The Bauhaus

Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus

1910's-30's

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[image]
Definition

Homage to the Square

Josef Albers

The Bauhaus

1910's-30's

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[image]
Definition

Wasily Chair

Marcel Breuer

The Bauhaus

1910's-30's

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The Bauhaus
Definition
German school of art that combined crafts with fine art.
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Walter Gropius
Definition
Founded the Bauhaus
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"Total Architecture"
Definition
The theory and practice of business and architecture or something
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[image]
Definition

Lavender Mist

Jackson Pollock

Abstract Expressionism

1940's-50's

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[image]
Definition

Woman I

Willem de Kooning

Abstract Expressionism

1940's-50's

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[image]
Definition

Untitled

Mark Rothko

Abstract Expressionism

1940's-50's

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[image]
Definition

The Rothko Chapel

Mark Rothko

Abstract Expressionism

1940's-50's

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[image]
Definition

The Stations of the Cross

Barnett Newman

Abstract Expressionism

1940's-50's

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Clement Greenberg
Definition
Famous art critic, supported abstract expressionism, one of the first to praise Pollack.
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Gestural Abstraction
Definition
"Action painting"; the stuff Pollack did, where paint is dripped onto the canvas
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Color Field painting
Definition
Large flat areas of color spread or stained across the canvas, less concerned with gesture, brushstrokes, or action, instead focused on consistency of form and progres.
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"All-Over Painting"
Definition
Painting with no differiation or preference on the canvas, like what Pollack does.
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"Zips"
Definition
Thin line separating areas of color
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Triptych
Definition
"3 fold" painting
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[image]
Definition

Clothespin

Claus Oldenburg

Pop Art

1960's

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[image]
Definition

Bathtub Nude #3

Tom Wesselmann

Pop Art

1960's

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[image]
Definition

Still Life #20

Tom Wesselmann

Pop Art

1960's

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[image]
Definition

Drowning Girl

Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art

1960's

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[image]
Definition

Marilyn Diptych

Andy Warhol

Pop Art

1960's

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[image]
Definition

Campbell's Soup 1 (Tomato)

Andy Warhol

Pop Art

1960's

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[image]
Definition

Red Race Riot

Andy Warhol

Pop Art

1960's

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[image]
Definition

Skull

Andy Warhol

Pop Art

1960's

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"Pop as the Great Equalizer"
Definition
Pretty much what it says, bro. Direct response to the Abstra-expresso movement, all that "ivory tower" shckit.
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Benday Dots
Definition
Printing process using a series of dots near each other to form color. (See: Lichtenstein)
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Valerie Solanas
Definition
Radical femmanazi, tried to kill Warhol. Wrote the SCUM manifesto.
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SCUM Manifesto
Definition
Society for Cuttuing Up Men, written by Solanas, talking about male genocide for a society of all women.
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The Factory
Definition
Warhol's studio
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[image]
Definition

Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson

Earth Art

1970's

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[image]
Definition

Lightning Field

Walter de Maria

Earth Art

1970's

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[image]
Definition

Wrapped Reichstag

Christo and Jeanne Claude

Earth Art

1970's

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[image]
Definition

Umbrellas Project

Christo and Jeanne Claude

Earth Art

1970's

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[image]
Definition

The Kitchen

Judy Chicago and the Feminist Art Program (Womanhouse)

Feminist Art

1970's-90's

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[image]
Definition

The Dinner Table

Judy Chicago and the Feminist Art Program (Womanhouse)

Feminist Art

1970's-90's

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[image]
Definition

The Linen Closet

Judy Chicago and the Feminist Art Program (Womanhouse)

Feminist Art

1970's-90's

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[image]
Definition

The Dinner Party

Judy Chicago

Feminist Art

1970's-90's

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[image]
Definition

Mea Culpa

Mary Kelly

Feminist Art

1970's-90's

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[image]
Definition

Post-Partum Document

Mary Kelly

Feminist Art

1970's-90's

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[image]
Definition

Untitled Film Stills

Cindy Sherman

Femenist Art

1970's-90's

Term
[image]
Definition

The Reincarnation of St. Orlan

Orlan

Feminist Art

1970's-90's

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Central Core Imagery
Definition
VAGINA
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