AP Art History 15- Postmodernism questions with verified solutions 2023/2024

AP Art History 15- Postmodernism performance art - correct answer an American avant-garde art trend of the 1960's that made time an integral element of art happenings - correct answer a term coined by American artist Allan Kaprow in the 1960's to describe loosely structured performances, whose creators were truing to suggest the aesthetic and dynamic qualities of everyday life; as actions, rather than objects Earthwork/Site Specific/environmental art - correct answer transforming some section of the environment, calling attention both to the land itself and to the hand of the artist superrealism/photorealism - correct answer a school of painting and sclupture of the 1960's and 1970's that emphasized producing artwors based on scrupulous fidelity to optical fact feminist art - correct answer a school of art that followed the women's liberation movement of the 1960's Guerrilla Girls - correct answer a group of women artists in the 1980's who considered themselves the "conscience of the art world. Through humor and creativity they lobbied the art world for greater representation for women New Media Art - correct answer avant-garde artists who embraced new technologies in their attempt to find fresh avenues of artistic expression. Among the most popular new media are video recording and computer graphics. culture wares - correct answer in the late 1980's and 199's artists challenged the public's sensibilities thus creatingg a national concern over what was offensive and inappropriate postmodernism - correct answer a movement that broke away from the rigid confines of modernist practice, postmodernism accommodated a wide range of styles and interests. It often includes irony or reveals a self-conscious awareness on the part of the artist of the artmaking process or the workings of the art world deconstructivism - correct answer deconstructivist architects attempt to disorient the observer by disrupting the conventional categories of architecture. The haphazard presentation of volumes, masses, planes, lighting, challenges the views assumptions about form as it relates to function. installation - correct answer a temporary work of art made up of assemblages created for a particular space, like an art gallery or musem kitsch - correct answer something of low quality that appeals to popular taste Narcissus Garden - correct answer -artist: Kusama -happenings in the 1960's (spontaneous performances that represented the dynamic qualities of every day life) -performance art, involve the crowd - at a public park, people may buy a metal ball for $2: "Your Narcissus for Sale" - installation and performance - 1,500 balls -art is portable The Bay - correct answer -artist: Frankenthaler -title helps viewer interpret -abstract expressionism (New York School) -colorfield painting -untreated canvas and thinned paints make colors run -monochromaticism of Rothko -watercolor-effect -plays with optical illusions- bay or face?