General
For each period:
Painters
Sculptors
Characteristics of the
style
Influential Historical and
Cultural Features
Unit 1
Module 1
Module 2
Unit 2
Module 3
Type:P
Title:
1. What European political events and artistic movements influenced the development of American Abstract
Expressionism? How?
a.
Type:P
Title:
2. Discuss the use of industrial processes in the work of David Smith, Julio Gonzalez, and Donald Judd.
a.
Type:P
Title:
Which processes did of David Smith, Julio Gonzalez, and Donald Judd use and how were the processes
related to each artist's esthetic concerns?
a.
Type:P
Title:
3. Compare Hamilton's Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? (FIG. 28-26)
with Campin's Merode Altarpiece (FIG. 20-4). Discuss the compositional structure and the symbolism of both
works, along with their cultural meanings.
a.
Type:P
Title:
4. What distinguishes the works of Robert Rauschenberg from those of early Dada artists?
a.
81. Below are two examples of modern sculpture. Compare and contrast them and attribute each to an
artist, country, and decade, giving your reasons.
A.
Artist:
B.
Artist:
Country:_
Country:
Decade:
Decade:
Reasons:
IV. 81. A. David Smith, USA 1960s (Cubi XXVII, 1965, Guggenheim Museum, New York)
B. Claes Oldenburg, USA 1960s (Model Ghost Typewriter, 1963, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York)
Both of these pieces of sculpture were created by American artists in the 1960s, and they represent two very
different approaches to the art. Smith is representative of the Formalist-Structuralist approach. which aims to
eliminate the human element in art in favor of formal machinelike perfection. Like the two stainless steel
sculptures by Smith illustrated in the text (Fig. 22-86), this one shows his interest in arranging "solidgeometrical masses in a remarkable equilibrium of strength and buoyancy." Notice particularly the
precarious balance of the columnar form on the upper right part of the Sculpture. The beautifully machined
surfaces of the forms demonstrate Smith's interest in contemporary machines, and his professed desire to
turn his studio into d factor%. Oldenburg's approach is almost diametrically opposed, for one of his goals
was to humanize the machine. which he does with a kind of sly humor by means of his "soft" sculptures.
Like the forms of the So ' It Toilet reproduced in the text (Fig. 22-98), the various mechanisms of the soft
typewriter sag and assume a strangely grotesque organic quality, which completely denies its function as a
machine. Oldenburg's fantasy seems to be a combination of Dada mockery of society and the interest of
American Pop artists in the forms o: the commercial world around them.
42. In what ways did Marcel Duchamp's Fountain challenge accepted notions regarding art and aesthetics?
How does it redefine the role of the artist? In what specific ways can this work be seen as a commentary on
Modernism?
Module 4
Type:P
Title:
5. Can you relate Judd's untitled work (FIG. 28-22) and Tinguely's Homage to New York (FIG. 28-16) to the
earlier traditions of Classic and Romantic art? How?
Module 5
Unit 3
Module 6
Module 7
Module 8
Unit 4
Module 9
Module 10
Unit 5
Module 11
Module 12
Unit 6
Module 13
Module 14
Module 15
Type:P
Title:
1. What European political events and artistic movements influenced the development of American Abstract
Expressionism? How?
a.
Type:P
Title:
2. Discuss the use of industrial processes in the work of David Smith, Julio Gonzalez, and Donald Judd.
a.
Type:P
Title:
Which processes did each use and how were the processes related to the artist's esthetic concerns?
a.
Type:P
Title:
3. Compare Hamilton's Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? (FIG. 28-26)
with Campin's Merode Altarpiece (FIG. 20-4). Discuss the compositional structure and the symbolism of both
works, along with their cultural meanings.
a.
Type:P
Title:
4. What distinguishes the works of Robert Rauschenberg from those of early Dada artists?
a.
Type:P
Title:
5. Can you relate Judd's untitled work (FIG. 28-22) and Tinguely's Homage to New York (FIG. 28-16) to the
earlier traditions of Classic and Romantic art? How?