modern art vocab (unit 10?)

the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them

a graffiti tag originally used on the streets of New York City from 1978 to 1980. Same old Shit

abstract woven hangings suggesting organic spaces as well as giant pieces of clothing made by magdalena abakanowizc

art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.

so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring. Trite

an emphasis on male strength and dominance

Puerto Ricans born and/or raised in New York.

spanish for trinkets

An architectural style using deconstruction as an analytical strategy. attempt to disorient the observer by disrupting the conventional categories of architecture. The haphazard presentation of volumes, masses, planes, lighting, and so forth challenges the viewer's assumptions about form as it relates to function.

a drawing of the outline of an object

A word used to distinguish a foreigner from natives

posada's gaudy skeleton

A two-paneled painting or altarpiece.

a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of "art."

art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.

An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors, lines and shapes. Gestural and Chromatic

a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.

had a tighter pictorial control and a cool detached rationality. There was little evidence of the painter's hand.

a style of abstract painting characterized by simple shapes and monochromatic color

artworks created by altering a large area of land using natural and organic materials. Earthworks are usually large-scale projects that take formal advantage of the local topography.