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Year 11 Art (Art Study Notes 2013) Flashcards on Art Study, created by zmadelil on 14/08/2013.
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Duchamp was a member of which Art movement: The Dada movement; Dadaist
Name of Duchamp's sculptures? Readymades
Definition of the Dada Movement? - A movement following WWI - despised and challenged authority, the old conventions of art - questioned long-held assumptions about what art should be, and how it should be made
List Duchamp's two Duchamp works The Fountain and the Bicycle Wheel
What were "Readymades" made of? Mass produced, utilitarian objects,
What is the purpose of the Readymade? To mock the strict approach to art making and to liberate the art world
What was Duchamps message through objects? redefined what is art, created a beauty and art to the mundane object. Forced the audience to view ordinary objects in a new artistic light.
How did the audience react to Duchamps "Readymades" Critics accuse him of plagiarism, theft, immoral
Why is Duchamp influential ? His re-contextualizing and change in definition of objects as art, and the comment on the limits in art. Paved the way for conceptual, modern art.
Mike Parr: Describe his use of line? Gestural, Kinetic, spontaneous, directional, expressive, aggressive,loose, sketchy, semi-abstract
Mike Parr's is a .... artist? Performance artist, heavily influenced by the Fluxists
Mike Parr, Worked in what time period? 1970's
Duchamp worked in at what time? During and after WWI
What is Mike Parr's purpose within his self-portraits? To subvert and distort the accepted notions of beauty and accuracy- Distortion
What emotions and effect does Mike Parr's work create? creates a sense of vulnerability, grotesque, confrontational, unsettling because of personal context- of physical deformatity
What does Parr's works evoke within the audience? depicts the artists personal narrative, direct and opposing the viewer, autobiographical, life force and energy
What conventions of classical portraiture does Parr challenge in his works? The concept of idealized beauty, the depictions of accuracy. The glamourised fully developed human body. The idea of depicting deformity.
Damien Hirst what type of artist? - English sculptor, installation artist, painter and printmaker.
Classical art period- What year? 1BC
Classical art period- What year? 1BC
Renaissance- What period? 15-16th Century
Modernism- What period of time? late 19th/20th century
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