Review Night on Thursday the 18th

We are going to meet at CSB room 206 at 7:30 pm, and we will review till whenever...

Some questions:

1) Describe the roles that phenomenology and constructivism had in the development and production of minimalist art, in particular the works of Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre and Frank Stella.

2) Discuss the roles of consumerism, capitalism, pop culture and the historical avant-garde in relationship to Pop Art, give examples of artists who employ these ideas in their work.

3) German art was changed dramatically by World War II, discuss the artists associated with 'Capitalist-Realism' and the work of Joseph Beuys, think of the art works they produced in relationship to their identities as Germans after the Holocaust and WWII.

4) Discuss some of the main issues raised and worked on by the Abstract Expressionists, where were they painting, what were they painiting and from what pools were they drawing inspiration from?

5) Think of the idea of the gestalt, what artists, or works of art seem to embody the idea that the whole is more than the sum of it's parts, give names and examples.

6) Describe the influence of Marcel Duchamp on two artists we have discussed, compare the similarities and differences these artists used in developing work after Duchamp, that was inspired by his aesthetic philosophy.

7) Scatology has been a major point of interest, in all of our readings, discuss the role of scatology in our readings about European painting and Abstract Expressionism, name two artists who incorporate the idea of scatology into their painting technique, discuss their aesthetic reasons for doing so.

8) What role has semiotics, or the study of signs played in our readings related to sculpture and painting? Give at least one example.