Contemporary Art Exam 2 || with 100% Error-free Answers.
Public Art correct answers An umbrella term which includes any work of art purchased with
public funds, or which comes into the public regardless of where it is situated in the community,
or who sees it.
Types:
Site specific sculpture
Monument
Street art
Tilted Arc, Richard Serra 1981-89 correct answers Site specific sculpture, very controversial, no
longer exists. Blocked the habitual route that people walked, forcing them to take a different
route. Clashed with the spirals on the ground/affected your perspective. General Services
Administrator William Diamond was the party responsible for Tilted Arc's removal.
Cloud Gate, Anish Kapoor, 2006 correct answers Millenium Park, Chicago. Eccentric
Abstraction, Chicago people call it "the bean" isn't as controversial as Tilted Arc because of it's
inviting, mirrored surface and it doesn't get in anyone's way. Not site specific.
Charging Bull, Arturo Di Modica, 1989 correct answers Wall Street, NY. Bull market=money.
Site specific- not commissioned by New York or any agency. In December of 1989, there were
several recessions and this was a rallying cry for capitalism. NY citizens loved it, Arturo paid a
fine for it, it sits on land that is private and public.
Prison Ship Martyr's Monument 2.0, AKA 'The Snowden Statue', 2015 correct answers Fort
Greene Park, Brooklyn NY.
Guerilla Artwork. The day after, city officials took it down. They were overjoyed bc they had
documented everything and it had a second life through the documentation. Appropriation,
detournement.
Guerrilla Art correct answers Also referred to as street art, is a method of art where the artist
leaves anonymous art pieces in public places. Often an installation in an unauthorized location.
The Ghost of Edward Snowden, Illuminator Art Collective, 2015 correct answers Was taken
down almost immediately, documented as well, also lived a second life through it's
documentation.
WORKS, Kryzsztof Wodiczko, 1988 correct answers Light Projection, Washington DC. Reaches
out to a bigger crowd, hypocrisy of the images, represented threat/hope, political. Suggesting
maybe someone in our office should not be trusted.
Monument correct answers a statue, building, or other structure erected to commemorate a
famous or notable person or event.
Street Art correct answers Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned
artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity
, during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent
incarnations.
Graffiti correct answers writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or
other surface in a public place.
Pichacao/pixacao correct answers is a unique form of graffiti native to the Southeastern
metropolises of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. It consists of tagging done in a
distinctive, cryptic style, mainly on walls and vacant buildings. Many pichadores (pichação
painters) compete to paint in high and inaccessible places.
Detournement correct answers A kind of appropriation from the modern era where something is
"stolen" out of one context and "forced" to exist in another context, often with a completely
opposite meaning. Often subversive and political. Always a specific citation involved: it is able
to deliver a political message because you can tell that the image/object/text was different in its
original form than in its appropriate form. Revolutionary. Modernist.
Appropriation correct answers Useful umbrella term for an artistic strategy of taking images,
words or objects from one context and putting them into another context. The 4 types are
detournement, pastiche, culture jamming & cultural appropriation.
Pastiche correct answers A kind of appropriation from the postmodern era whose meaning is less
clear and more blurry than détournement. The origin is often not very clear. For example, it
seems as if an artist has put the images they are working with into a blender and mixed them all
up together. The emphasis is not on "before" and "after," but rather on a recycling or mixing of
different styles and meanings.
Culture Jamming correct answers A kind of politically engaged appropriation from the last 20
years or so that acknowledges how hard it is to be truly political or subversive in an era that is so
influenced by consumerism and media. A kind of appropriation that critiques the messages that
dominant culture sends us through advertising. Doesn't attempt to be really revolutionary;
instead, it is designed to be a temporary "jolt" to our capitalist system
Cultural Appropriation correct answers When artists use the signs, symbols, or even bodily
characteristics of a particular group of people out of their original context and in a new context.
Cultural appropriation can be tricky, and it is important for artists to think through what the
stakes involved are.
Post-Production correct answers Part of the process of filmmaking, video production and
photography. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, radio programs,
advertising, audio recordings, photography, and digital art. It is a term for all stages of
production occurring after shooting or recording individual program segments.
Photorealism correct answers A return to figuration
Pop-like concern with the superficial, the reproducible, the commercial and the everyday,
pleasurable looking
