Art 107 Short Answer Question questions These questions will help you prepare for quizzes. Also, the information gathered by studying these questions will help build the content for your essay. (SEE TEXTBOOK AND LISTEN TO POWERPOINT FOR ANSWERS – BRING QUESTIONS AND TEXTBOOK TO CLASS) INTRODUCTION ROMARE BEARDEN 1. What are projections (Romare Bearden)? 2. What was Bearden hoping to “do” with his images? 3. What early 20th century style did Bearden appropriate? OBAC 4. Describe the purpose of OBAC and which artists were involved in this group? 5. Describe the ideologies of the group AfriCOBRA EMORY DOUGLAS 6. Describe how Emory Douglas became involved in the Black Panther Movement. 7. Why were his drawings and prints an effective form of communication? 8. What was contained inside of the Black Panther newspaper? YOKO ONO 9. What did Yoko Ono mean when she stated her work was “Fabricating consciousness” rather than making art? 10. Describe the poetic and Zen elements in Yoko Ono’s work as seen in her “Cut Piece”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYJ3dPwa2tI (link to excerpt from performance) 11. Discuss the dichotomous as well as unifying elements in Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” that support a feminist reading of her performance. JUDY CHICAGO 12. Describe Womanhouse and the statement the artists were trying to make with the installation. 13. Why was the installation effective in terms of location, content and materials? 14. What bias within the art world was made apparent with the rise of the Pattern and Decoration movement? 15. What does Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party symbolize? 16. What are the positive and negative aspects of the Dinner Party? 17. What shift occurred in feminist art during the late 1970s? HANNAH WILKE 18. Why were Hannah Wilke’s performances considered contradictory to the feminist movement? 19. Why did Wilke paste objects onto her body? 20. What role did humor play in Wilke’s performances? CHAPTER 2: TAKING PICTURES 21. Define Appropriation and why it is or isn’t an effective art form (refer to Douglas Crimp’s exhibition Pictures). SHERRIE LEVINE 22. What issues did Sherrie Levine address by appropriating images from previous artists and popular culture? 23. How do her photographs question originality? RICHARD PRINCE 24. Why was Prince drawn to images from popular culture? 25. Why is “desire” an important aspect of his work? 26. Define Prince’s Gang photo series and why is placing the photographs of same subjects adjacent to one another an effective form for visual and social critique? CINDY SHERMAN 27. What type of feminism arose in the 1980’s and what was their main goal? 28. What types of subjects does she portray her photographs? 29. What does Cindy Sherman deconstruct with her photographs? 30. What types of subjects does she investigate with her later photographs? ALLAN MCCOLLUM and LOUISE LAWLER 31. Define surrogates (Allan McCollum) 32. Describe the contradictions in McCollum and Lawler’s pieces and the effects? 33. Describe their critique of the art gallery and presentational space. BARBARA KRUGER 34. Where did Barbara Kruger’s career begin? 35. What did she appropriate from this early career? 36. When Kruger uses terms like “we” and “you” whom is she referring to? 37. Describe the iconic formal elements in Kruger’s work. 38. Describe political consumerism in relation to Kruger’s work. GUERRILLA GIRLS 39. Who are the Guerrilla Girls, what is their goal and how is this information spread? http://www.guerillagirls.com/index.shtml 40. What styles are fused together in Guerrilla Girls works of art and why is this approach effective? 41. Describe some of the themes introduced in their posters, prints and books. CHAPTER 3: BACK TO THE EASEL ILYA KABAKOV (see powerpoint) 42. What did the paintings of the Russian Neo-Expressionist Ilya Kabakov center on? 43. Why were Kabakov’s works political? 44. What does The Man who flew into space from his apartment represent? JULIAN SCHNABEL 45. According to Julian Schnabel why is it impossible for painting to just refer to itself? 46. What is the connection between Schnabel and Johns? 47. What duality is expressed in his paintings? ERIC FISCHL 48. Why were Fischl’s works controversial? 49. What complexity and contradictions are apparent in his work? 50. What is deconstruction? (very brief) JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT 51. What is meant by SAMO? (Basquiat) 52. Why is his work an example of the diasporiac style? 53. Describe Basquiat’s definition of the fragmented self. FRANCESCO CLEMENTE 54. Who were the Transvanguardia and where are they from? 55. Describe the concept of fragmentation and subversion in Clemente’s pieces. ANSELM KEIFER 56. What does Anselm Kiefer seek in his paintings? 57. What is Keifer trying to resolve through his paintings? 58. Why did Keifer use natural materials in his works? 59. What symbolism is contained in Breaking of the Vessels? 60. Why is Breaking of the vessels an example of postmodern art? JORG IMMENDORFF 61. Describe the symbolic metraphor represented in Immendorff’s Café Deutschland III. 62. What iconography is portrayed in the Café? 63. Describe some of the influences on Immendorff’s later paintings. CHAPTER 4: INTO THE STREETS 64. Why was Graffiti art so attractive to artists? 65. Where did Graffiti art “begin”? 66. What did Haring appropriate that enhanced his Graffiti paintings? 67. What was the subject matter/content of his drawings? 68. Why can the deaths of Haring, Basquiat and Wojnarowicz be representative of social crises? 69. What does Wojnarowicz highlight in his works? 70. Why was Wojnarowicz so aware of the “evils” of society? 71. Why did Hammons choose a particular audience? 72. Why is Higher Goals symbolic of a particular AA experience (as well as other groups)? 73. Why were the materials used important? 74. What is Appropriation? 75. What types of subjects does Krzystof Wodiczko address in his art? 76. Why is the medium and location for Wodiczko’s works important to his message? 77. What is he addressing in his Homeless Projection projection (not just homelessness) 78. Ahearn 79. Sisco CHAPTER 5: COMMODITIES AND CONSUMERISM 80. What desire is represented in Koons works? 81. How does Koons differ from Duchamp? 82. Describe the characteristics of Minimal art in Maya Lin’s Vietnam memorial. 83. How does the design of Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial heal psychic wounds? 84. Why is Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial also considered a “reverse memorial”. 85. Why are Kara Walker’s silhouettes controversial? 86. Why does Walker refer to the women in her images as Heroine’s but at the same time she wants to kill the Heroine? 87. Discuss the different examples of parody, irony and the abject in Walkers images and why Walker portrays these themes. 88. 89. 90. .