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25,000 BCE
Venus of Willendorf
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Period: 25,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE
Paleolithic Era
Old Stone Age-early people hunted wild animals and gathered berries, seeds, fruits, and plants for food. They lived in small nomadic bands, moving to find new food sources as needed. -
15,000 BCE
Hall of Bulls
Located in Lascaux, Dordogne, France, this wall painting is believed to have been linked to food and ritual. Some anthropologists propose that rituals could be preformed on the animals' likenesses to ensure a successful hunt. Painted spears and arrows could be thrown at the pictures in order to "kill" the animals. These paintings on the wall, while quite realistic, were actually drawn from memory and pigments made from natural materials were used to create different colors and paint for the wall -
Period: 10,000 BCE to 7000 BCE
Mesolithic Era
Middle Stone Age-saw the first experiments in raising crops and animals. Humans continued to live by hunting and gathering but older practices were intermingled with new during this time. -
8000 BCE
Neolithic Period
New Stone Age-expanded agricultural production and the beginnings of cities. -
3100 BCE
Stonehenge
Stonehenge was used as a place for rituals or agricultural reasons. It is an example of how art in architecture was used for cultural purposes. -
2685 BCE
Lyre
Made of wood, lapis lazuli, and gold and shell inlay was found in the royal Mesopotamian tomb of Queen Puabi. It has a bearded bull on the end as a symbol of royalty. -
2600 BCE
Mankaure and His Wife, Queen Khamerernebty
Early example of a royal portrait. The sculpture displays the Egyptian standard of beauty at the time. It also shows both as the same size, as pharaonic succession was traced through the female line. The sculpture was created to be permanent and durable, so as to show the power of pharaohs as divine descendants of the Sun God Re. -
2000 BCE
Stonehenge
Wiltshire, England. It is likely that the stone arrangement marks the midsummer solstice, needed for planting cycles. Likely and altar for religious rituals as well as an astronomical device that maps solar and planetary movement upon the earth -
1600 BCE
Snake Goddess
Minoan, from the palace at Knossos, glazed earthenware. Likely evolved from the Earth Mother deity; she represents male and female regenerative powers of a snake shedding its skin. -
1509 BCE
School of Athens
This fresco created by Raphael is one of the first pieces to properly execute the illusion of depth. It is one of the most famous and classic Italian Renaissance. This piece also contains great examples and uses of color, process, and content in a painting. -
1400 BCE
Musicians and Dancers
These Egyptian wall paintings reflect the Egyptian culture's style of entertainment and its fixation with funerary rituals and the afterlife -
1350 BCE
Bust of Queen Nefertiti
From the Egyptian New Kingdom's Eighteenth Dynasty, this is an example of a portrait that mirrors the sociopolitical milieu of the time. She also displays the new aesthetic canon, which is eased, flowing, naturalistic, and elegant, different from the rigid, more abstract style. -
1000 BCE
Classical
Classical Art is the art of Ancient Greece and Rome that often focuses on the human body and the natural world. Many people base artworks on Classical pieces to this day. -
Period: 800 BCE to 480 BCE
Archaic Greek Period
Figure styles on pottery were evolving from stiff, simplified forms into more fluidly realized bodies. -
720 BCE
Lamassu
This image of lamassu is an example of a type of guardian figure that would be placed outside of a palace -
600 BCE
Three-Legged Ting with Cover
The Chinese made bronze vessels to store their liquids. If it stored ritualistic liquid like ritual wine then it may have been placed inside shrines for ancestors or for good crops. This specific vessel from the Zhou Dynasty was a good example of balance and harmony, which were very important for the zen aesthetic that was going around during that time. -
600 BCE
The Goddess Hathor and the Overseer of Sealers
'Egyptian deities were usually personifications of natural forces or animal forms. This image is an offering to Hathor by an official, for her guidance in his duties.' -
520 BCE
Women at the Fountain House
This is an example of Archaic Greek period pottery where the shape of the figures was beginning to become more fluid instead of stiff. It is also an example of black figure painting. Black figure painting is achieved by putting a thin coating of black-firing clay is put over the top of the red clay of the actual vessel. Then details are carefully etched into it with a needle to create the designs of people or patterns. -
447 BCE
Parthenon
Located in Athens, Greece, the Parthenon is one of the greatest examples of Classical architecture that the world has to offer. The entire building is also an optical illusion. There are parts of the columns and different areas of the building that have size changes based on those around them so that when the viewer looks from different angles it seems to look a certain way. It was used as a temple, so the images and sculptures in and on the building were representative of some gods or stories. -
440 BCE
Horsemen
From the Parthenon frieze, Athens, Greece. Marble, 42" high. These images are carved in an upper band around the structure, representing part of the participants in the Panathenic Festival procession. -
421 BCE
Porch of the Caryatids
The Porch of the Caryatids on the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece is an example of how there is no real definition for art because it is always changing from culture to culture. It is also an example of the beauty aesthetic.
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300 BCE
Laocoön and His Sons
This is a piece from when Greek art turned to depicting humans engaged in violent action, vulnerable to age, injured, diseased, and subject to feelings of pain, terror, or despair -
70
Colosseum
The Colosseum was dedicated to blood sports and entertainment for the public and royalty. It was a masterful feat of architecture, full of ramps, passages, rooms, and places for water. -
79
Papyrus Scrolls
Mt. Vesuvius erupted and preserved an ancient Greek library which allowed researchers to uncover their writing on papyrus scrolls -
190
Unswept Floor
Mosaic from the emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli Sosus of Pergamon showing that if you were wealthy you could live in excess and did not care if bits of food and other materials fell on the floor. http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2012/08/unswept-and-unwelcome.html -
200
Spider
Drawings like this one consisted of large geometric shapes, spirals, and long, straight lines that extend for miles or radiate from center points.All of the lines are a standard width and executed as a continuous path. These drawings are so large that they can only be seen from above. -
1000
Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance
Shiva is one of the primary avatars of the Brahman, the Unbounded, the universal spirit of all things. Naltunai Isvaram Temple, Punjai, India. Bronze. -
1100
Codex Series
series of sheets of paper/vellum bound together with a cover -
1300
Lotus Flowers and Ducks
From 13th century China, this piece is an example of how art is a reflection of a person's perceptions of and responses to the world around them in all ways. Artists in the same culture may express ideasdifferently
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Period: 1300 to
Italian Renaissance
The rebirth of learning and the arts in the 14th-17th century in Europe, along with the revival and study of ancient Greek and Roman cultures -
1314
Madonna Giotto
Created by Ognissanti, this piece was when depth and perspective were beginning to be used and understood in art. There is still a lack in this piece, but you can start to see some depth and perspective in this piece. -
1377
Jikji
Korean religious text that was the first known use of metal moveable type -
1415
Development of Linear Perspective
Developed by architect Fillipo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) Mirror with sighting hole as well as lenses and prisms were important inventions to the progression of showing perspective in art. -
1425
Discovery Florentine Realism
The discovery of Florentine realism is accredited to Masaccio for his work Holy Trinity (1425) which was considered one of the earliest works that properly executed linear perspective. https://introtorenaissance2015.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/thematic-perception-and-linear-perspective-in-masaccios-holy-trinity-and-tribute-money/ -
1425
Holy Trinity
This fresco created by Masaccio is one of the earliest versions of successful execution of linear perspective. It demonstrated command of the rules; the figures have volume and are proportionate. Masaccio is also credited with starting the movement of Italian Realism. -
1431
Arnolfini Wedding
Painted by Jan van Eyck, this piece is not only a double portrait but a wedding certificate of sorts. There are many obvious and hidden symbols throughout that have to do with marriage, love, fertility, and religion. -
1434
Arnolfini portrait
In this painting by Jan Van Eyck, there is attention to detail in the food, light, and space. There is a good naturalistic style and it uses geometric perspective. This piece forms a full length double portrait where Van Eyck has actually painted himself and the backs of the couple in the mirror. -
1434
Emerald Bhudda
Has three different sets of gold seasonal costumes embedded with precious or semiprecious stones
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1435
Della Pittura
Written by Alberti, it discusses color mixing and color theory. States that through the mixing of colors there are infinite colors. But, there are only 4 true colors which he thought of in terms of nature: red/fire, blue/air, green/earth, gray/ash. -
1436
Lucca Madonna
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1440
Printing Press
Inventor: Johannes Gutenberg -
1482
The Birth of Venus
Painted by Sandro Botticelli, this piece is a reflection of the ideas of the early Italian Renaissance. It also expresses how content in a piece can require study rather than just a quick glance. Link text -
1495
The Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci used this piece to depict the ritual meal as a religious ceremony. He baed it on the Last Supper referred to in the Bible. The composition is symmetrical and the perspective lines all radiate from Jesus' head making him the center of attention and most important figure. It is also implied that there are more viewers and that we are a part of them -
1495
The Unicorn in Captivity
This is the last image in 6 Netherlandish tapestries. One meaning is that of Jesus, comparing the idea of being hunted by men, being brutally killed, and rising back to life. The image may also represent true love in the Age of Chivalry with the unicorn (man) enduring terrible ordeals to win his beloved. The unicorn was also one of the first examples of fantastic creatures in art -
Period: 1497 to
Northern Renaissance
The Renaissance that occurred in Europe and north of the Alps. In this time, artists started to look at smaller details, and the importance of space and observation in a piece of artwork. -
1500
Saltcellar
Salt was used to determine wealth in England and was just as important to them as water. Many of these vessels were designed and created in Africa or Portugal and then exported to Europe for the wealthy to use. -
1500
Seated Buddha
This newer image of Buddha gave the impression of a more generalized holy being rather than a specific person -
1501
David
Sculpted by Michelangelo, the David was not made in perfect human proportion. Michelangelo knew that when people would be looking at the David they would be looking up because of his size. Because of this he made his hands and head much larger so that when looking upwards, the viewer did not see a distortion in the figure. -
1505
Madonna of the Meadow
Raphael. Italy. Images of Christianity's deity can be depicted as one person or in three as in the Trinity. Jesus Christ is believed to be both divine and human, but is often depicted in his human form, seen here as a baby. -
1519
Pesaro Madonna
Painted by Titian, this piece is an example of when artists started to use more naturalistic and realistic ideas in their art. -
1543
The Fourth Plate of Muscles
Andreas Vesalius published this piece in 1543, and in it you can tell the work that he had to put into it to create a picture of a scale, moving, cut open person -
1547
Le Transi de Rene de Chalon
Figure of Prince Rene de Chalon who died at a very young age. It is a life size skeleton of the prince which used to hold his actual dried out heart. -
1567
The Peasant Wedding
Painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a renaissance painter and printmaker. The painting shows the traditional practices of a Flemish wedding. -
Vanitas Still Life with Shelf Portrait
Pieter Claesz. Identifiable by skull and timepiece. -
A Table of Desserts
This image painted by Jan Davidsz de Heem reflects the cultural and religious beliefs of the time. During that time, the display of much food was connected to a show of wealth. Food had become an aesthetic experience -
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Cloak and Feather Hat
Feathers were sacred in Hawaiian culture and considered connected to the gods, so only royalty could wear them. The colors have symbolic value, like in many cultures. The red symbolized royalty and the yellow signified a prosperous future. -
Codex Borbonicus
This religious calendar was made close to the Spanish conquest in Mexico. Its preservation affirms the history and culture of the Aztec people. -
Opticks
In it, Sir Isaac Newton discusses the color wheel and how using a prism created light, and how white light worked. He used the prism to conclude that white is a mixture of all colors put together. He put together the first workable theory of the rainbow. -
Marriage à la Mode
This piece - Breakfast Scene - was part of a series of comedic paintings that William Hogarth used to satirize the English upper classes in the 18th century. -
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Romanticism
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The Executions of May 3, 1808
A pivotal piece in the history of protest art, this painting was based on earlier sketches made of the actual event, happening six years earlier, by the artist Francisco Goya. -
The Haywain
Painted by John Constable, this piece shows a broad meadow in the distance, with a farm scene in front. The composition is casual, but pays very nice attention to details like the clouds and light. -
View From the Window at Le Gras
The first known photograph.Taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, and printed on a metal plate using emulsion. Heliography -
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty is personified as a partially nude woman but reminiscent of a Greek goddess. This is an homage to the 1830 Paris Revolt in France in which the artist personifies liberty's fight against oppression of the people -
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Realism
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First Known Photo of a Person
Louis Daguerre-Boulevard du Temple https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/early-photography/a/daguerre-paris-boulevard -
Arts and Crafts Movement
The Arts and Crafts Movement was established in England around 1860 and moved to North America around 1880 and stayed until 1920. In England, they wanted to focus less on the use of machines in craftsmanship, but in America they readily accepted the use of machines and new technology. This movement wanted to focus on the relationship between the artist and their handiwork. It included ceramics, building, woodworking, etc. wikipedia.com, theartstory.org -
Mesquakie Bear Claw Necklace
This piece represents the strength and tenacity of the bear, which added to the dignity of the owner. -
Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
Painted by Edouard Manet, this piece is one of the first from the new impressionism movement. It has good light and color, but the scale is off and the strokes are painted with less care. With the new photographs coming out, painters did not have to worry as much about being perfect in their representation, and could paint for paint's sake. -
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Impressionism
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L'Iconnue de la Siene
The body of a young girl was found in the river and one of the workers around when they found her decided that her face was so beautiful and pure that he made a replica of her face. Her image became very popular in France and replicas started popping up everywhere. -
The Potato Eaters
Vincent Van Gogh-his masterpiece when he was alive. Depiction of the working class https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0005V1962 -
Central Park
Located in New York City, Central Park is a nature retreat from the large city landscape. It is considered an outstanding example of landscape architecture that contains loads of places that can be used to appreciate art. -
The Night Cafe
Vincent Van Gogh's The Night Cafe marks a significant time in art when artists are beginning to intentionally flatten space again to make a point about society, causing the viewer to look at the paint itself as well as the image http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/night-cafe.html -
They Did Not Expect Him
Repin -
Basket
An example of the very tightly woven vessel made from natural materials. These baskets made by the women of California and Pacific Northwest Coast Tribes were water tight and used to carry liquid. To achieve patterns, they used different colored reeds, vines, or twigs, and pine needles. The patterns were often symbolic of something. Sometimes they were decorated with symbols for nature and other times they were made specifically for daughters and important times in their lives. Pomo Tribe -
Portrait of Dr. Gachet
Vincent Van Gogh painted a free-thinking, eccentric, homeopathic doctor with the foxglove flower to symbolize his profession. -
Rouen Cathedral
Claude Monet-this painting is a prime example of how painters were focusing on the paint and light in pieces as opposed to recreating reality -
The Scream
"inner emotional forces have distorted and deformed the head into almost a skull-like form" In Edward Munch's work "the distorted body is the vehicle for expressing inner terror, anxieties, and pressures. Realism has been abandoned to give form these internal emotions. -
The Three Stages of Woman
Edvard Munch
-virgin bride, sexual being, matron, death -
Jane Avril
Jane Avril was a favorite subject of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. She was a singer and dancer at the Moulin Rouge. This poster captures the provocative essence of the cabaret. -
Tyi Wara Dance Headdress
Used by the Bamana people of Mali, it was worn during rituals that were meant to ensure good crops and weather that season. Many ancient cultures, especially in Africa, used headdresses and masks like this one during rituals for food and ensuring health from this food. -
Water Lily Pool
Monet makes great use of his brush strokes to communicate light in his painting especially on the water and the lilies -
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Created by Pablo Picasso, this piece began as a picture of prostitutes and their customers, but ended up as the beginning of the new movement Cubism. It's manipulation of space and abstraction of shapes became a popular new movement Link text -
Cubism
Art style in which multiple viewpoints or facets are represented within one point of view. Analytical cubism breaks down form. Synthetic cubism used collage and assemblage to represent parts of objects in order to visually play with illusions and reality -
He That is Without Sin
Polenov -
Munsell Color Tree
The Munsell Color Tree is a perceptually uniform model of color and the way that it interacts with light and darkness to create different tones and hues -
Expressionism
Expressionism was an art movement that was often bold and gave the viewer a sense of urgency or spontaneity. It is often less realistic and more focused on the emotion that the artist is trying to evoke from the viewer. They are often distorted and maybe off balance or a symmetrical. -
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily Kandnisky -
Fountain
A urinal turned on it's side-found art. Marcel Duchamp challenges the idea of what art is and can be. Many people reject this piece as being art, but Duchamp's work has influenced a lot of the contemporary art we have today. http://www.toutfait.com/unmaking_the_museum/fountain.html -
Fit for Active Service
This pen and ink drawing was used as an expose of the bloated doctors and self-absorbed officers who sent elderly, sick, and very young men to the front lines to fight for Germany near the end of WWI. -
The City
Fernand Léger painted this piece in an attempt to suggest the newness and excitement of geometric industrial structures and the precision and efficiency of machines. -
Surrealism
Surrealism contains elements that seem odd or strange and have bizarre abstractions or placements in a piece. It often contains images that may only be found in the unconscious mind, and in the deeper depths of thought. -
Grey Line with Lavender and Yellow
Georigia O'Keefe. Enlarged, abstracted flower painting which many think resemble female genitalia. Feminists have found her work to be positive female-based imagery that glorifies and beautifies female sexuality. -
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The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali, a surrealist, painted this piece to bring attention to the dream world that was just as real as the reality we are currently in. -
Georing the Executioner
John Heartfelt used a news photographs combined and manipulated with drawing to create a photomontage that depicts the Naxi Field Marshal as a butcher to forewarn the public of the party's bloodshed that was to come in Germany during WWI. -
Triumph of the Will
Commissioned by Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl, this documentary was made to glorify Hitler's rule, his military strength, and the Nazi order of Aryan supremacy. It was a great work of propaganda and established Hitler as the first media hero of the modern age -
Veranda Post: Female Caryatid and Equestrian Figure
By Olowe of Ice, this carved wood post reinforces the idea of the king's power to the people and was a symbol of religious authority. Much like the "Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius" from c.175 CE in Rome Link text -
Self-Portrait with Monkey
"Frida Kahlo painted her face many times, almost always with the same impassive expression...Kahlo's face is central, studying us as we study her." -
Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism developed in New York in the 1940s as artwork that may not be recognizable but is based on a real object. Many times, artists will take different pieces of an object and dissect them or distort them. -
Listen to Living
An example of surrealism, this piece emphasizes absurd or dream states. -
Lucifer by Jackson Pollock
"The poured and dripped paint is a permanent record of the actions of the artist's body as he bent his back, lunged forward, and swung his arm to make this painting" -
Avant Garde Movement
In the mid-20th century, artists started to come up with new ideas in their work that did not particularly cohere with any other art forms and could be considered odd or radical. Clement Greenberg described it as "art for art's sake" and "pure poetry". -
Pop Art
Pop Art was a movement that glorified popular culture items into art icons -
I Love Lucy
TV sitcom starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. -
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
In an era of consumerism, people often gauge their worth by the purchases they can make, not by character, deeds, fate, or karma. Body shape became something that can be bought, like in this pop art collage -
Yves Klein's Blue
Yves Klein mixed together and patented his own color of blue -
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's museum is another example of organic architecture designed to exhibit art. -
Make a Salad
Allison Knowles-performance art-early well known female artist -
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers creates a book on how varying shades of color interact with each other and how a lighter or darker shade of one color can make the other color appear different. https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/570/2-josef-albers-interaction-of-color -
Pie Counter
Wayne Thiebaud was looking to display food as a popular icon rather than a show of wealth or as nutrition. Part of the pop art movement -
Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup and Del Monte Freestone Peach Halves
These boxes are silk screened wooden sculptures that look like the mass-produced boxes that hold food. Andy Warhol was celebrating the commercialism surrounding the images of the boxes and how people found comfort in mass-produced food -
Habitat
Moshe Safdie wanted to create an alternative to single-family urban house sprawling. He created low-cost housing that also minimized the use of land and provided privacy. The units are prefabricated and stacked on top of each other to create an interesting and aesthetic group living situation -
Eden
Helio Oiticica -
Insertion into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project
From Brazil, this work was created by Cildo Meireles as a response to Brazil's military government, which supported itself by "selling" the country to foreign investors, including the US -
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson's earthwork piece is made up of rocks, dirt, salt, and water that extends in the surface of the Great Salt Lake. It is hard to see most of the time because it is covered under the water. -
Ways of Seeing
John Berger-tv series -
Sydney Opera House
This opera house in Australia was built on the harbor so as to greet visitors arriving from anywhere. It is thought of as "functional sculpture". -
First Digital Camera
Steve Sasson invented the first digital camera for Kodak. However, Kodak did not want to sell digital cameras and this caused them to fall behind other companies in advancement, which led to their decline and ultimate filing for bankruptcy in 2012. http://www.kodak.com/corp/aboutus/heritage/milestones/default.htm -
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Modernism and Postmodernism
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TV Bhudda
Nam Juna Paik's piece TV Bhudda began to touch on how advancements in technology such as photography have caused us to change the way we view ourselves and those around us. https://switchtalk.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/tv-buddha-1974/ -
Witchetty Grub Dreaming
This piece by aboriginal artist Paddy Carroll Tjungurraryi is indicative of places where foods and resources can be found in Australia. The patterns create a sort of land map, and the symmetry and balance is to suggest piece within the cosmos and the ancestors -
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"Sherman suggests that no one has a built-in sense of identity, but rather we compose ourselves from pieces of popular culture." -
Sun Mad
Ester Hernandez takes familiar imagery from popular, commercial culture and subverts it. Hernandez wanted to create a piece criticizing the use of insecticides, that contaminated the groundwater the local population used, in raisin farming near her home. -
Draped Reclining Mother and Baby
Henry Moore-work references both modern and ancient art that has sought to visually express the power of human reproduction. -
The Social Mirror
Mierle Laderman Useless had a New York City garbage truck fitted with mirrors so that when the performance piece rode by citizens of NYC, they would become more aware that they are the reason for the waste and its impact. -
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Fanny (Fingerpainting)
Chuck Close used this portrait not to reveal inner personality as to create an amazingly detailed record of the structure, ridges, pores, and wrinkles of an elderly woman's head. -
There is No Escape
The artist of this piece, Sue Coe, wanted demonstrate the harsh changes from agriculture to industry. In many industrial societies, the food supply is guaranteed by technology and business and no longer religion and ritual. -
Your Body is a Battle Ground
Barbara Kruger. This was a poster made originally about abortion rights, but it also alludes to other body issues that could be a battleground for the viewer such as race and sexuality. -
Dingoes: Dingo Proof Fence
The dingo in this sculpture is a wild dog that is covered in many colors representing the native Aboriginal people and it has the ability to pass through fences. This work upholds the wild animals' right to the land in Australia, as well as supports the aboriginal way of life that leaves the natural environment intact. -
Buddha Statue of Hyderabad
India
When they were putting it on the platform it fell over and killed ten people
They had to get it out of the lake and it took two years to get it up and have it fully restored.
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Gnaw
Last piece on the topic of eating made by Janine Antoni, began as a 600 pound cube of chocolate and another equally large cube of lard. The artist created the piece by biting and gnawing the edges. -
The Temple of All Religions
Ildar Khanov. Kazan, Russia -
The Knot
The two ominous figures represent the country's police and politicians that conspired in the 1980s to create an oppressive regime in El Salvador. -
The Chromatic Diet
Sophie Calle-Art piece based off of the conversation between the artist and a novelist. The diet was based off of the meals of a character based off the artist within the book of the novelist.https://crowincrowndotcom.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/the-chromatic-diet-sophie-calle/ -
Monkey Magic-Sex, Money and Drugs
The monkey is a stand-in for human behavior, and here it holds an empty turquoise vessel and tries to capture three powerful elements of life: sex, money, and drugs which are actually three pieces of dried elephant dung attached to the canvas. The elephant dung is used as a reference to the African ritual use of it. -
Dolorosa
This piece consists of two flat-panel monitors arranged like a diptych or a double-frame portrait showing a weeping man and woman. The images move slowly and the images are very saturated so at first glance they look like painted portraits. It is a closer look into the idea of emotion in a portrait -
Spirited Away
Created by Hayao Miyazaki, this film not only has wonderful animation, but has hand drawn architectural interiors, diverse characters, and beautifully lush landscapes -
King of Kings/Touchdown Jesus
Sculpted by James Lynch and assembled by Mark Mitten. It had a core of styrofoam and a thin skin of fiberglass. It was 62 ft. high and was struck by lightning and burned down in 2010. -
RGB Colorspace Atlas
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Vantablack
Artist Anish Kapoor created Vantablack, a substance that is 99.6% black
