Contemporary 2
Across
- 3. painter who started out in abstract expressionism but ended up doing weird, cartoon like meditations on the KKK, etc.
- 5. Maker of ambitious, large-scale video installations that involved fire and water and ambiguous soundtracks
- 8. anonymous collective of feminist artists who comment on artworld bias and hypocrisy (2 words)
- 10. guy who anticipated op art by making geometrical abstraction that is figuratively “eye-popping”
- 11. artist who comments on social issues, including the hypocrisy of the art market, in graffiti art and clever stunts
- 13. pop art icon who copied millions of soup cans
- 14. outspoken mimimalist who created really basic “primary structures”
- 15. artist who filled the Tate with thousands and thousands of artificial sunflower seeds
Down
- 1. the guy who erased the victims in photos of race-based lynchings
- 2. Canadian artist who fused indigenous themes with a style inspired by Wassily Kandinsky to create something utterly unique in contemporary Canadian art
- 4. a major feminist artist who urged us to “beware fascist feminism”
- 6. Canadian film-projection artist who explored his own subjectivity, often by using himself as the model
- 7. artist whose appropriation work takes the form of a kind of “future archaeology”
- 8. trio of Canadian artists who appropriated a famous pop art image and converted it into a symbol of what was once called “the gay plague” (2 words)
- 9. feminist whose work ranged from impenetrably boring videos demonstrating domestic utensils associate with “women’s work” to meditations on the President’s wife
- 12. artist most closely associated with conceptual art, which he defined as tautological