Art 1
Modern to Contemporary Art
Final Exam Study Guide
The final exam will be given on May 15 10:45 – 1:15 pm and will be cumulative
Key Images
Joseph Beuys. How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. 1965.
Yoko Ono. Cut Piece. 1965.
Judy Chicago. The Dinner Party. 1974 – 1979.
Carolee Schneeman. Interior Scroll. 1975 – 1977.
Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #6. 1979.
Sherrie Levine. After Walker Evans #4. 1979.
Jean­Michel Basquiat. Charles the First. 1982.
Andres Serrano. Piss Christ. 1987.
Gerhard Richter. Betty. 1988.
Sally Mann. Candy Cigarette. 1989.
Felix Gonzalez­Torres. Placebo. 1991.
Kiki Smith. Pee Body. 1992.
Matthew Barney. Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate. 1994.
Damien Hirst. This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy Went Home. 1996.
Chris Ofili. The Holy Virgin Mary. 1996.
Kara Walker. Slavery! Slavery! 1997.
Catherine Opie. Oliver in a Tutu. 2004.
Guerrilla Girls. Do Women Have to Be Naked? 2005.
Key Terms
Appropriation
The “aura”
Body politics
Cremaster
Entropy
Feminism
Feminist Art Program
Graffiti Aesthetic
Grisaille
People
Walter Benjamin
Hyperrealism
Identity politics
Jouissance
Male gaze
NEA
Neo­Expressionism
Pastiche
Performance art
Photorealism
Laura Mulvey
Linda Nochlin
Postmodernism
Post­Structuralism
Sensation show
Simulacra
Untitled Film Still series
Whitney Biennial
Womanhouse
YBAs
Charles Saatchi
Questions to Consider
What events launched the feminist art movement? What were the chief concerns of feminist artists?
Why was painting declared dead in the 1970s? Why did artists resurrect it in the 1980s?
How does Postmodern art differ from Modern art? What does Postmodernism reject and what
does it embrace?
Why were Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still series one of the first to be considered Postmodern?
Are they self­portraits?
What were Jean­Michel Basquiat’s themes and what symbols did he repeatedly use?
What spawned the 80s art boom? What effects did the boom have on the kind of work produced?
What controversies surrounded Andres Serrano’s, Robert Mapplethorpe’s and Ron Athey’s work?
What did the controversies result in?
Why was the Sensation exhibition controversial in England? Why was it controversial in New York?
Why were artists of the 90s interested in identity? What events encouraged such exploration?
Why did artists “return” to the body in the 90s? In what new ways did they handle the subject?
Styles and Movements
You will be asked to identify the style or movement the following works are associated.
Artwork
Jean Dubuffet. Large Sooty Nude. 1944.
Alberto Giacometti. Man Pointing. 1947.
Robert Motherwell. At Five in the Afternoon. 1949.
Jackson Pollock. Autumn Rhythm (Number 30). 1950.
Barnett Newman. Vir Heroicus Sublimis. 1950­51.
David Smith. Hudson River Landscape. 1951.
John Cage. 4’ 33”. 1952.
Helen Frankenthaler. Mountains and Sea. 1952.
Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1952 – 3.
Alberto Burri. Saccho H8. 1953.
Francis Bacon. Study After Velazquez’s Pope Innocent X. 1953.
Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954 ­ 55.
Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram. 1955­59.
Mark rothko. Green and Tangerine on Red. 1956.
Richard Hamilton. Just What is it… 1956.
Lee Krasner. The Seasons. 1957.
Frank Stella. Die Fahne Hoch. 1959.
Yves Klein. Leap Into the Void. 1960.
Andy Warhol. Marilyn Monroe’s Lips. 1962.
Tony Smith. Die. 1962.
Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl. 1963.
Joseph Kosuth. One and Three Hammers. 1965.
James Rosenquist. F­111. 1965.
Eva Hesse. Hang Up. 1965­66.
Ed Kienholz. The State Hospital. 1966.
Carl Andre. Steel Magnesium Plain. 1969.
Christo & Jeanne­Claude. Umbrellas. 1972 – 1976.
Carolee Schneeman. Interior Scroll. 1975 – 1977.
Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #6. 1979.
Sherrie Levine. After Walker Evans #4. 1979.
Richard Serra. Tilted Arc. 1981.
Jean­Michel Basquiat. Charles the First. 1982.
Andres Serrano. Piss Christ. 1987.
Gerhard Richter. Betty. 1988.
Sally Mann. Candy Cigarette. 1989.
Felix Gonzalez­Torres. Placebo. 1991.
Kiki Smith. Pee Body. 1992.
Janine Antoni. Gnaw. 1992.
Matthew Barney. Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate. 1994.
Damien Hirst. This Little Piggy Went to Market, This Little Piggy
Went Home. 1996.
Chris Ofili. The Holy Virgin Mary. 1996.
Kara Walker. Slavery! Slavery! 1997.
Catherine Opie. Oliver in a Tutu. 2004.
Guerrilla Girls. Do Women Have to Be Naked? 2005.
Style
Art Brut
European Avant Garde
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism
Color Field
New York School
Happerning
Color Field
Abstract Expressionism
Art Informel
Abstract Expressionism
Neo Dada
Neo Dada
Post­Painterly Abstraction
Pop Art
Abstract Expressionism
Post­painterly Abstraction
Nouveaux Realiste
Pop Art
Minimalism
Pop Art
Conceptualism
Pop Art
Minimalism
California Funk/ Installation
Minimalism
Earthwork/ Conceptualism
Feminism/ Performance
Postmodernism
Postmodernism/ Appropriation
Minimalism
Neo Expressionism
Postmodernism/ Body Politics
Photorealism
Postmodernism/ Identity Politics
Postmodernism/ Identity Politics
YBA
Postmodernism/ Body politics
Postmodernism/ Identity politics
YBA
YBA
Postmodernism/ Identity politics
Postmodernism/ Identity politics
Postmodern Feminism