Perspectives | Key Words #4

• Avant-garde - original, experimental ,radical, innovatory, introducing or exploring new forms or subject matter.
• Nostalgia - the desire of returning back to a former time in one’s life or a sentimental longing for a period in the past.
  
• Appropriation - to appropriate something for example censorship in media.
• Pastiche - is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. (reusing an existing concept or idea)
• Parody - humorous imitation of an existing serious piece of artwork.
  
• Irony - expressing one’s meaning by saying the opposite for (mostly) comedy effect.
• Idealogy - a set of opinions or beliefs of a group that they are living after.
  
• Genre - a category in which the artwork is produced according to a particular model or style.

•  Sherrie Levine -  is an American photographer, painter, and conceptual artist. She is best known for her reproductions of notable male artists' works through photography. Most of all, Levine's reproductions focus upon idolized male artists, such as: Walker Evans, Constantin Brancusi, Vincent van Gogh, and Edgar Degas, ect. In order to critique limiting ideas of talented male artists in which Art History has traditionally undervalued the role of female artists. The artist has said: “Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know what a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.” While Levine sees her work as more of a collaboration with previous artists, in copying and replicating the work of male artists Levine also levels a feminist critique in art history and society. Movements which influenced artist: conceptual art, pop art, surrealism, moden photography, feminist art.