Adam Cohen

November 30, 2017

Final art history test

Image 1: running fence by christo. Earthwork, this artwork uses the earth as it’s canvas.
This work was created outside a museum, and was funded as an event through sale of tv rights,
books, exhibitions etc. It is huge and uses the landscape. It is about a concept, in this case, as the
artist states “beauty”. Some have called christo’s work environmentalist

image 2: Sharp center for design by will alsop. Post modern architecture, this building is
very expressive and shuns the rigid simple forms of modern architecture. It is a response to its
context in terms of limited space. It clearly pushes the limits of what is possible for engineering,
and it makes itself unique through bright colours primary, and the distinctive random checkered
pattern on the facade.

image 3: The dinner party by Judy Chicago. feminist art, this work highlights hundreds of
women who have made a significant contribution to the world. but in many cases have not been
widely recognized. The table is shaped as an equilateral traingle symbolizing the struggle for
women’s equality. The mediums used like the emberoidered table cloths show these typically
female art forms as just as valuable as an oil painting. Clearly this is a work about women.

part b:

Image 1: post modern architecture, because uses expressive forms from the architect’s
imagination. Pushes the limits of construction and and enjineering technology and rejects the
simplicity of modernism. Also very unique compared to other buildings

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 Image 2: Feminist art, features a women front and centre with kruger’s signature white on
red text. Has a thought provoking statement probably intended to get the viewer to think about
the female body. This is particularly a female issue and probably is intended to talk about how
men attempt to fight over the female body, seeing it as theirs for the taking. This painting is from
a female perspective and appears a criticism of the notion.

image 3: earthwork. This work uses the earth and things from it to create art work. It rejects
the idea of art you have to pay to see in a museum, and highlights the beauty of nature. Perhaps
an environmental message is being spread here? this work is of such a large size that it was
probably commissioned by the very rich or a company. Possibly the artist tried to promote it. It
will weather over time.

part c:

1. An earth work is a work of art created either on or with the earth. some earth works are
sculpted hills while others are objects like umbrellas place across the terrain. Earth works are
usually huge and outside museums. Earth works are funded by rich people or companies if
they are not promoted by the artist through books, planning exhibitions or tv rights to raise
funding. Because earth works are outside, the ones that are around for a while will gradually
weather and errode until they return to the earth. the artists often have an environmental
message, but mostly their goal is in the process and experience of the work over time. visitors
are welcome to climb across them, and they like the idea that they are pulling from the earth,
and eventually the work will change and return to the planet. For many artists, the process
and method of creation, like gathering lots of friends around to help was almost as important
as the final work.
2. the artist made money by promoting the work as an event. they sometimes sold tickets
to come seen the work on site, they would sell tv rights and pictures, the sold books, and
organized exhibitions of the planning process in galleries.
3. If I made an earth work, I would carve a giant canyon deep crack into a farming field.
visitors would be amazed and I could sell tv right etc to fund construction. the shape of the

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crack would change over time and after many decades, the whole would start to fill in
symbolizing the healing of humanity after trump’s presidency. I would make the crack by
hiring illegal immigrants as a way to emphasize my message. In this way the process would be
almost as important as the final product.
4. The male gaze is the way males are constantly judgeing females based on their bodies,
appearance etc. The gaze is felt by almost all women, and effects how they live and the
choices they make regarding fashion, makeup etc.
5. In the past centuries and decades, women have been painted by men for men, and have
largely been depicted as objects on display. They were usually with out any identifiable
personality, and existed in very typical roles like mother when they were not painted as nudes.
Feminists are trying to fight this system by showing women more as they truly are. This is
done by empowering women with spoofs like the umbrella turned light sabre. They are also
using their art to highlight women’s views on politics and society etc. Powerful works like
“untitled” by Kruger show how women are affected and how they feel through tools like text
which point out how objectification etc is having an effect on women.
6. Pomo is very different from modern architecture. Modern architecture was a distinct
style which focused on function, simplicity, clean forms and boxy shapes etc. Modern
architecture used materials that were new at the time like glass steel and concrete. Pomo
architecture pushes the limits of what is possible through daring cutting edge design and
engineering. pomo is not one style but rather the accumulation of unique directions architects
have moved in since the end of modernism’s popularity. pomo uses today’s new materials like
advanced composites, fibre glass, additive manufacturing etc, but also makes heavy and
creative use of concrete steel and glass. Pomo is often designed as statement buildings for the
very rich or companies, symbolizing their ideas and idealls. Pomo often looks wild and
expressive. It is created with architect’s own ideas, and sometimes as a response to its purpose
and context.
7. picture on back of test paper.

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