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MARTRIC IEB
ART EXAM
2021 works:
Tribal face paint:
Tribal or Cultural Face Painting has been used for many motives. For hunting, religious
reasons, and military reasons (mainly as a method of camouflaging) or to scare one's
enemy. ... Patterns developed over time to signify a variety of cultural events and these,
conveyed an emotional meaning that was attached to them.
Performance art: Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through
actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be live, through
documentation, spontaneously or written, presented to a public in a Fine Arts
context, traditionally interdisciplinary
Question 1
Visual Analysis: short paragraphs (20 marks)
,Terms:
1. Medium
2. Minimalistic
3. idealistic
(stereotype)
"Reality" is in some way indistinguishable or inseparable from human perception and/or
understanding, that it is in some sense mentally constituted, or that it is otherwise closely
connected to ideas.
4. surrealistic
(realities)
having a strange dreamlike atmosphere or quality like that of a surrealist painting.
Juxtaposition (oppose each other but next to each other) of uncommon imagery.
Question 2: visual analysis
Q2 - Short paragraphs (15 Marks): D, S, AE, P, M, S
Dada: Otto Dix= Card-Playing War Cripples; John Heartfield = Adolf the Superman
(Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk); Hannah Hoch = From an Ethnographic Museum, No IX;
OR Hannah Hoch = The Beautiful Girl
Surrealism: Dali = Gala and The Angelus of Millet Immediately Preceding the Arrival of the
Conic Anamorphoses; Meret Oppenheim = Luncheon in Fur; Renee Magritte = The Rape
Abstract Expressionism: Jackson Pollock = Lavender Mist; Willem De Kooning = Woman
I
Minimalism: Yves Klein = IKB 79
Pop: James Rosenquist = F1-11 Andy Warhol = Silver Car Crash; Edward Kienholz and
Nancy Reddin Keinholz = The Bronze Pinball Machine (with Woman affixed also)
Super-Realism: Chuck Close = Self Portrait; Duane Hanson = Tourists; Duane Hanson =
Supermarket Shopper
, Dada:
A hatred developed amongst artists for all existing forms of authority. Some ofthem wanted to
create Utopias of reason and social justice through art, and get
away from the madness of war. America was too far away, and so the main
haven for them in Europe was Switzerland.
The war opened up a vast gap between those who had fought, mainly young
men, and their civilian elders, starting the first of the conflicts of generation
that would mark modern culture right through to the 1960s. Its effect on
Europe and especially Germany in dividing the young from the old, was
similar to Vietnam’s effect on America.
This generation knew it had been lied to about the nature and length of the
war. Its politicians had lied about its causes, and a censoring press had seen
to it that very little of the realities of war – not even a photograph of a corpse
– found its way into any newspaper. Never had there been a wider gap
between official language and perceived reality.
The Dadists believed in the power of art to “save mankind” from political abominations. By
changing the order of language through devices such as nonsense poetry, they felt that art
could alter the existing order of experience.
However, the casualties of Verdun – 750,000 dead and wounded – caused the Cabaret
activities to take on an angrier, more “insane” flavour: a direct response
to the nightmare of unending, meaningless slaughter in the trenches.
Fountain- Marcel Du Champ
Description: Fountain by Marcel Du Champ is a urinal that is laid on its side with the
word :R.Mutt 1917” written on its side. Fountain substantiates the statement because it
literally is just a urinal.
Facts:
1. Purchased from R.Mutt- a manufacturer of plumbing equipment
2. A new function for a urinal is created
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