Art History from 10th to 20th Century
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What was a key characteristic of art during the 10th-12th centuries in Bohemia?

  • Art was focused on individualistic expression.
  • Art was primarily used as a commercial commodity.
  • Art flourished within churches and was vital for learning the Bible. (correct)
  • Art was predominantly influenced by Eastern cultures.
  • How did geographical factors influence artistic styles in different regions?

  • National styles developed regardless of local materials.
  • Art was shaped solely by international trends.
  • Art reflected the culture, history, and values of a nation influenced by local materials. (correct)
  • Geographic locations had no impact on the style of art.
  • What distinguishes Greek art from Roman art?

  • Greek art focused on realism while Roman art celebrated idealism.
  • Greek art celebrated beauty and harmony, while Roman art focused on realism and propaganda. (correct)
  • Greek art utilized marble exclusively, whereas Roman art used wood.
  • Roman art was primarily religious, while Greek art was more secular.
  • What role did art serve in Soviet Czechoslovakia?

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    What is a defining trait of land art from the 1960s-70s?

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    What were the primary themes of land art during its popularity?

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    Which material choice is commonly associated with artistic traditions in Italy?

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    What was the primary focus of Greek art compared to Roman art?

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    What was a key focus of modernism as described in the context of the Bauhaus?

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    What was the primary reason for the closure of the Bauhaus school during WWII?

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    What movement was notably present in Czechoslovakia during the Stalinist regime?

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    Which of the following artists was known for his work with poems and collage, influencing Czech modernism?

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    Which creative concept did Jiri Kovanda explore through his performances?

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    What was the objective of Charter 77 signed by various artists in Czechoslovakia?

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    In what manner did Jiri Kovanda typically document his performances?

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    What aspect of Bauhaus education contributed to a cohesive living atmosphere?

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    What medium did Jiri Kovanda primarily use in his art practice?

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    Which of the following best describes Marina Abramović's approach to performance art?

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    What criticism did Roy Lichtenstein face regarding his artwork?

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    How did Jiri Kovanda's work evolve after the fall of the communist regime?

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    What was the aim of Marina Abramović's performance 'Rhythm 10'?

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    What was a key characteristic of Jiri Kovanda's art during the communist regime?

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    Which of the following represents a significant method used by contemporary artists like Abramović?

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    What theme is often explored by contemporary artists, including those like Abramović?

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    What is a key focus of material innovation in sculpture?

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    What is the primary purpose of ornamentation as described?

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    How did the ornamentation movement respond to industrialization?

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    Flashcards

    National Styles in Art

    The influence of a region's geography, culture, and history on its artistic styles and traditions.

    Local Traditions in Art

    Artistic styles developed in specific regions due to factors like available materials and local cultural practices.

    Art as a Political Tool

    The use of art to promote political ideologies and nationalistic propaganda.

    Greek Art

    Greek art emphasized idealized forms, perfect proportions, and harmony, often focusing on human figures.

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    Roman Art

    Roman art borrowed from Greek styles but leaned towards realism, depicting historical events, daily life, and propaganda.

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    Land Art

    A type of art created in situ, often using natural materials and responding to the specific environment.

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    Site Specific Art

    The idea that art should be created in specific locations and be a part of the natural world.

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    Themes in Land Art

    Themes explored in Land Art, including the natural processes of decay and restoration.

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    Ornamentation

    Decorative elements added to objects and architecture to enhance visual appeal.

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    Art Nouveau

    The artistic movement at the turn of the 20th century that focused on ornamental embellishment to create individuality and escape mundane industrialized environments.

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    Abstract Art

    A style of art that emphasizes non-realistic representations, focusing on shapes, textures, materials, and space. It breaks away from traditional realism.

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    Minimalism

    A movement in abstract art that uses simple geometric shapes and forms to explore three-dimensional space. It emphasizes form and materiality.

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    Abstract Sculpture

    A style of abstract sculpture that departs from representing realistic human forms or objects. It focuses on creating new shapes and forms through creative use of different materials.

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    Surrealism

    A style of art that aims to create a mental picture or scene through the use of non-realistic elements and techniques.

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    Abstract Expressionism

    A movement in abstract art influenced by Cubism and Constructivism. It uses industrial materials and free-form designs to explore space and form.

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    Early Abstract Sculpture

    Early abstract sculpture that used simple geometric shapes like cylinders to create three-dimensional forms.

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    Early Abstract Art

    A movement in abstract art that emerged in the early 20th century. It explored unconventional forms and materials. Examples include Cubism and Constructivism.

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    Cubism

    An art movement that emerged in the early 20th century, focusing on the use of geometric shapes, straight lines, and multiple perspectives to represent objects. It emphasizes structure over detail and explores the fragmented nature of reality.

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    Analytical Cubism

    The initial phase of Cubism, characterized by the use of monochrome colors and the analysis of objects from various angles.

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    Synthetic Cubism

    The later stage of Cubism, characterized by the use of brighter colors and the incorporation of real-world materials such as fabric and newspaper. It embraces a more experimental approach.

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    Pablo Picasso

    A Spanish artist considered one of the founders of Cubism, known for his revolutionary paintings that explored geometric shapes and multiple perspectives.

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    Joan Miró

    A French artist known for his colorful and dreamlike abstract paintings, often incorporating organic shapes and textures.

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    Abstract Photography

    A style of photography that emphasizes the abstract qualities of light, shapes, and textures, often manipulating images in the darkroom.

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    Pictorialism

    A movement in photography that emerged as artists sought to express emotions and ideas through unconventional compositions and effects.

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    Contemporary Art

    A form of art that embraces a range of artistic expressions, drawing inspiration from past eras and highlighting social, political, environmental, and technological issues through diverse mediums.

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    Marina Abramović

    An artist known for their experimental performances that explore the limits of the human body, vulnerability, and the artist-audience relationship. They push the boundaries of performance art by enduring intense physical experiences, like the iconic 'Rhythm 0,' where they allowed the audience to interact with them using objects, resulting in a confrontational display.

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    Jiri Kovanda

    A renowned Czech artist who worked under the communist regime, known for their subtle performative art in public spaces. They used everyday gestures and interactions with the environment to create art that was often not physical or easily documented. Their work was a form of resistance, exploring the limitations of the human body and the nature of perception.

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    Roy Lichtenstein

    A prominent artist known for their vibrant, comic book-inspired art, often criticized for appropriating comic art without giving credit to the original creators.

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    Postmodern Art

    A mid-20th century artistic movement that challenged traditional art forms and embraced new mediums and techniques. Its works were often characterized by bright colors, bold imagery, and a focus on popular culture and consumerism.

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    Bauhaus

    A German art school known for its influence on modern design, architecture, and typography, promoting a unified aesthetic and communal living for students.

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    Interwar Avant Garde

    A period of time following World War I characterized by artistic experimentation and innovation, where movements like Dadaism and Surrealism emerged.

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    Underground Art (Totalitarian Regimes)

    A movement of artists who worked secretly and independently during periods of totalitarian regimes, often expressing their resistance through conceptual art, performance, and happenings.

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    Charter 77

    A manifesto signed by Czechoslovakian artists and intellectuals demanding freedom of expression and basic rights during communist rule.

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    Jiri Kolar

    A Czech artist who resisted communist rule and gained prominence for his collages and poetry, contributing significantly to the development of Czech modernism.

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    Happenings

    Art that engages directly with the audience through actions, participation, and often temporary installations, defying traditional boundaries of art.

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    Appropriation in Art

    A key concept in Postmodern art, appropriation refers to the use of existing images, objects, or ideas from other sources without creating something entirely new. This practice challenged traditional notions of originality and authorship in art.

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    The Blending of High and Low Culture

    Postmodern art challenged the traditional separation between fine art and popular culture, blending high art with everyday objects and commercialized media. This blurring of boundaries paved the way for movements like Pop Art.

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    Irony and Parody in Postmodern Art

    A central theme in Postmodern art, irony and parody were used to challenge traditional ideas about art, culture, and society. Artists often used humor and satire to express their critique of established norms.

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    Andy Warhol and Pop Art

    A prominent figure in the Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was known for appropriating images from popular culture, such as advertisements and consumer products. He used techniques like silk screen printing to mass-produce his works, challenging traditional notions of artmaking.

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    Globalization and Postmodern Art

    Globalization played a significant role in the spread and impact of Postmodern art. Artists began to explore diverse cultures, identities, and narratives, reflecting the interconnected world. New technologies, such as television and media, influenced the art created during this era.

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    The Significance of Postmodern Art

    Postmodern art questioned traditional hierarchies, narratives, and aesthetics. It paved the way for contemporary art practices that challenge the modern world, embracing multiple viewpoints, artistic methods, and cultural contexts.

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    Pluralism in Postmodern Art

    A core principle of Postmodern art, pluralism embraces multiple viewpoints and artistic methods, rejecting the idea of a single correct approach or style. It celebrates diversity and encourages a range of perspectives in creating art.

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    Study Notes

    Art Nouveau (1890-1910)

    • Revolutionary artistic movement merging art, life, architecture, design, and everyday objects.
    • Aimed to break from historical styles and embrace modernity.
    • The movement was influenced by industrialization in the 19th century. This led to a desire for brighter, more beautiful everyday spaces and architecture.
    • Core ideas centred on incorporating art into everyday life, including homes with stained glass windows, carved wood, panelling, and intricate wallpaper. The goal was to elevate the mundane experience.
    • Embraced organic forms and flowing lines.
    • Often featured female forms symbolically representing beauty, grace, and fertility.

    Art Nouveau Characteristics

    • Blended organic forms and flowing lines with functional objects.
    • Showcased nature's beauty (life, growth, and vitality) as a central theme.
    • Depicted many female figures.
    • Incorporated both traditional craftsmanship and modern techniques. This combination lead to fresh and experimental outcomes.
    • Artists used lithographic prints that maintained artistic flair while showcasing machine printing precision.

    Art Nouveau - Materials

    • Often experimented with innovative materials like glass, iron, and ceramics.
    • Avoided mass production and embraced unique, handcrafted pieces.
    • Industrial machinery allowed for the experimentation with these new materials.

    Art Nouveau - Groundwork

    • Inspired broader movements like Bauhaus.
    • Combined space elements (architecture, furniture, textiles, decorative arts) into unified style.
    • Emphasized holistic design.
    • Combined art, craft, and technology to create cohesive, functional designs.

    Art Nouveau - Alphonse Mucha

    • Czech illustrator and painter.
    • Became internationally famous for his distinctive art style in Czechia and globally.
    • His style focused on figurative art with themes of harmony, nature, and female figures.
    • Utilized flowing lines, colors, and often idealized woman with flowing hair and floral patterns.

    Art Nouveau in Czechoslovakia

    • Flourished in Prague in the early 20th century.
    • Incorporated folklore and mythology to create a unique artistic style.
    • This gave art a more mystical and engaging feel.
    • Integrated art with daily life to reduce mundane surroundings and improve city and home environments.

    Post-Internet Art

    • Contemporary art movement using the internet as its primary source of inspiration (memes, trends, stock imagery).
    • Emerged from online meme culture expanding to installations, sculptures, paintings, and hybrid forms.
    • It represents consumerism, surveillance, political situations, identity, and other trends.
    • Artists often reference current events and memes to connect with their specific audiences. This fast-paced nature makes references quickly outdated

    Post-Internet Art Characteristics

    • Includes elements like glitching, highly saturated images, surrealism, memes, and bad quality imagery.
    • Aims to critique the world in a relevant way to contemporary life.
    • Artists may struggle to maintain trends due to the fast pace of internet culture

    Post-Internet Art - Jon Rafman

    • Contemporary artist working with post-internet culture. This artist's work often explores surveillance themes.
    • One acclaimed project is "9 Eyes," inspired by Google Street View. It offers insight into being constantly observed.
    • Presents work in different forms emphasizing technology and ideas

    Medieval Art

    • Liberal arts referred to academic disciplines in crafts. Music, writing, and mathematics.
    • Craft was practical and intellectual and valued.
    • Art wasn't distinguished from other crafts. Talented crafters were known as skilled artists.
    • Churches played a crucial role, providing funding and space. This was primarily for religious use.
    • Used art to portray and teach biblical stories through functional objects

    Medieval Art - Craftsmen

    • Essential for creating works of art (tapestries, mill decorations, fountains, jewelry).
    • Produced stained glass, sculptures, jewelry.
    • Mass production was minimal

    Medieval Art - Bohemia (10th-12th centuries)

    • Art flourished within churches before the Gothic era.
    • Served as a vital learning tool in the bible.
    • Inspired expressive artistry that contributed to the rise of the Gothic style of architecture

    National Styles in Art and Local Traditions

    • Artistic styles and traditions reflect specific places or regional cultures.
    • Art embodies the experiences, history, and cultural values of a nation.
    • Materials used in art reflect the natural resources of the area.
    • This has historically been used as a political tool, with art used to shape nationalist propaganda

    National Styles in Art and Local Traditions - Antiquity

    • Greek art focused on ideals of human form, balance, proportions, and mythology.
    • Examples include the Parthenon.
    • Roman art emphasized realism, embodying historical events, daily life, and glorifying emperors.
    • Examples include the Colosseum.

    Nature in Art - Environmental Site-Specific Projects and Ecology

    • Land art in nature that is designed to coexist with the environment and is meant to be left in place.
    • Artists use materials like rocks, wood, water, fire. This works best in natural landscapes.
    • Main themes include entropy, sustainability, ecological activism, restoration, awareness and critique.
    • This movement challenges traditional gallery settings by placing art directly within nature.
    • Land art has had popularity issues stemming from cost, remote locations and lack of ways to preserve work

    Nature in Art - Environmental Site-Specific Projects and Ecology - Downsides

    • Art forms such as Land art are expensive.
    • Material transportation and placement require sizable budgets.
    • Difficult to find ways to preserve or maintain these projects in places without access to protective infrastructure.

    Nature in Art - Environmental Site-Specific Projects and Ecology - Artists

    • Andy Goldsworthy created playful forms and shapes using his environment.
    • Robert Smithson is notable for his large-scale spiral jetty made of rocks. He worked with large, expansive land settings.

    Power of Images: Power of Politics

    • Socialist Realism was a key art movement primarily used as political propaganda to glorify everyday life, and industrialization.
    • The art was viewed as optimistic despite not accurately representing the social or economic climate of the era.
    • Architecture design and buildings were specifically designed to reflect communism, and glorifying the regime's leaders.
    • Art censorship and guidelines were commonly enforced to control narrative expression to adhere to political policies.

    Power of Images: Power of Politics - Revolution Against

    • Artists during this time went against these policies through home exhibitions and secret gatherings, maintaining a creative outlet despite restriction.
    • Charter 77: a manifesto protesting for better freedom of expression and freedom

    Power of Images: Power of Politics - Artists

    • Jiri Kolar: Involved in collage work and poetry seen as a very influential figure
    • Jiri Kovanda: known for body and public happenings as a form of resistance

    Power of Images: Power of Politics - Propaganda Art

    • Art used to promote political agendas through propaganda.
    • Examples are various posters promoting and supporting ideals of regimes.

    Body Physicality and Role in Art History

    • Cannonization of body proportions served as a systematic way to measure and depict ideals of beauty in human forms, in ancient times.
    • Used as guide in religion, aesthetics and creation of cohesive imagery and sculptures.
    • Established standards of harmonious proportions in ancient cultures.

    Body Physicality and Role in Art History - Egypt

    • Used a grid system for proportions, 18 squares from hairline to toes for depictions.
    • Focused on symmetry and proportions, viewed as "divine perfection".
    • Men depicted as slim, youthful, and strong.
    • Women depicted as tall with rounded hips and graceful postures showcasing fertility

    Body Physicality and Role in Art History - Roman

    • Embraced naturalism and realism, including body flaws.
    • Used a circle-in-a-square method for proportion measurement such as the Vitruvian Man.
    • This method ensured harmony and detail in images.

    Body Physicality and Role in Art History - Contemporary

    • Modern standards often relate more to individualism as opposed to rules on specific proportions.
    • Many variations of what is considered beautiful do exist but aren't standardized.

    Art and Utopia - Social Utopia Expressed Through Art

    • Art and architecture represent hopes for a better world and social transformation.
    • Shows humanity's ideals for a better world.
    • Used art as a tool to idealize better societies through different political and social styles (socialist realism, Bauhaus, futurism).

    Art and Utopia - Visual Examples

    • Plato: He envision a world where art shapes moral values, inspiration for meaningful living, and harmonious lifestyle.
    • Bauhaus: A school designed to support harmonious living, equality for students, and creativity. It aimed to improve societal views for students.

    Art and Utopia - Socialist Realism

    • A good example of utopian and socially engaged art that used propaganda and censorship to enhance the regime politically.

    Art and Utopia - Counter Points

    • Utopian societies often lack individualism to maintain conformity and often reject unique universal ideas.

    Art at the Turn of The Century: Role of Ornament

    • Decorative elements applied to objects and architecture enhance visual appeal.
    • Ornamentation was a response to industrialization, wanting to personalize and make the environment around individuals feel more personal.
    • Heavily influenced by Art Nouveau. Incorporates harmonious patterns, floral, and fluid ornamentation.

    Art at the Turn of the Century - Ornamentation in Prague

    • Prague is known for its embellishments. Buildings and facades display ornamental design.
    • Shows cultural identity, great examples include Municipal Building and Café Louvre

    Art at the Turn of the Century - Modern Ornamentation

    • Less integral to contemporary design.
    • Used to personalize everyday objects.

    Origins of Abstract Art

    • Abstract art focuses on shapes, textures, materials, and space.
    • Picasso, founder of Cubism, is one early example. It uses geometry, lines, shapes, and structure as the primary focus of the art
    • Cubism has two approaches: Analytical and Synthetic. Analytical uses monochromatic colors, while Synthetic uses more color.

    Origins of Abstract Art - Cubism

    • Started as an experimental approach to art.

    Origins of Abstract Art - Constructivism

    • Early form of abstract art developed around industrial materials and experimented with different textures.
    • Use of industrial materials such as metals and glass, and focuses on form, space, and volume.

    Origins of Abstract Art - Minimalism

    • Characterized by simple geometric forms and shapes.

    Origins of Abstract Art - Photography

    • Pictorialism was a early movement incorporating emotion and manipulation in photographs.
    • Artists in this era used the dark room to manipulate prints. Artists manipulated photographs to convey emotion.
    • Soft focus, and experimental techniques.

    Origins of Abstract Art - Artists

    • Naum Gabo: A founder of Constructivism, impacting abstract art
    • Wolfgang Tillmans: A modern example of an artist manipulating photographs

    Abstract Expressionism

    • Mid-20th-century movement, originating from New York City.
    • Focused on intuition, spontaneity, and physical ways of creating art. Physical interactions with paint (dripping, splashing) were common methods.
    • Two primary approaches: Action Painting and Color-Field Painting.
    • Influenced surrealism. Developed drip painting in the late 1940s.
    • Artists often used unconventional tools and industrial paints.
    • A lack of a central focal point, focused on freedom from inspiration and references.
    • Often marked as a rejection of convention to showcase the artist's individuality.

    Abstract Expressionism - Artists

    • Jackson Pollock: Challenged convention and had a significant role in this movement.
    • Clement Greenberg: An art critic known for supporting Abstract art and formalist principles. This role became strained as the years went on.

    Land Art

    • Art form produced in remote locations using natural materials (rocks, wood, and water).
    • Sites are often temporary or permanent.
    • Core ideas relate closely to entropy, sustainability, and ecological activism.
    • Some of the most well-known artists are Robert Smithson and Andy Goldsworthy.

    Land Art - Artists

    • Robert Smithson: known for large-scale and permanent pieces including Spiral Jetty.
    • Andy Goldsworthy: known for works inspired by natural surroundings.

    Unofficial/Underground Art in Czechoslovakia

    • Utilized secret gatherings, home exhibitions, and other underground means to create and display art that often challenged the political regime in place.

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