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Austria
This small but robust figure likely represented the power of female fertility and may have aided reproductive rituals in the Paleolithic era. -
Horns and sundisk represent royalty and divinity
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In memoriam of King Tut's Death
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Central Temple Complex, Cambodia. c. 1113–1150 CE.
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Athens, Greece, c. 447–432 BCE, from the east pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis. Marble.
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Mnesicles. Athens. Demonstrates post-and-lintel construction in its two porches, and load-bearing construction in the solid wall in between.
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Bronze.
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erected by Ashoka at Sarnath, India,
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Mosaic from emperor Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli Sosus of Pergamon
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Bronze, approx. 11' 6" high. This sculpture was also meant to reinforce the ruler’s power, but in this case, in Ancient Rome.
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1st century, found in the Mt. Vesuvius region of Italy. Fresco wallpainting.
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Japan
Made of natural materials, primarily wood and thatch. It is rebuilt every twenty years to exactly the same specifications, so what we see in Figure 7.25 is both a new building and a structure that dates from c. 685. With each rebuilding, the builders observe careful rituals and express gratitude as they take wood from the forest. Boards taken from the same tree are placed together in the building of the shrine. The wood is left plain and unpainted to retain its natural character -
Cordoba, Spain. The arches are a vast network of pattern, and the color banding adds to the intensity of the pattern.
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Shiva is one of the primary avatars of Brahman, the Unbounded, the universal spirit of all things.
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This image depicts a Buddhist living person who has attained Enlightenment but who has chosen to remain on earth to help others attain it.
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Believed to be 1185– 1204. Mosaic tile.
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Japan. 1192–1333. This artwork is meant to provide a spiritual experience, but it is framed within Japanese culture and the spiritual tradition of Buddhism.
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China. All artworks reflect the artists’ responses to their life experiences and to the world around them, 13th century.
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Madonna Ruccelai.
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
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Easter Island.c 15th century.
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Lorenzo Ghilbert
shows the emotionally intense moment when the youthful Isaac is bound on an altar of sacrifice as his fiercefaced father, Abraham, aims the knife at his son’s throat. The curves of their bodies echo each other, with Isaac pulling away as Abraham is poised to lunge forward. The nude body of Isaac is idealized and perfect, increasing the merit of the sacrifice. -
Start to see clear perspective- a major technological advance.
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Painted on wall of Brancacci Chapel in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine - Florence, Italy
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Sandro Botticelli. The content of a work of art includes its imagery and its cultural references. Some content is obvious, but other is hidden.
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Michelangelo. Made hands and head bigger so they would seem normal looking up at them.
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Leonardo da Vinci. Oil on wood. Follows the Golden Ratio.
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Raphael Sanzio
solemn composure and the cross they hold portends their roles of savior and prophet. All figures are totally human, but their dignity and serenity seem divine. The blues, reds, and greens add to the sense of harmony. -
Albrecht Durer. Engraving.
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Rosso Fiorentino. 1530-1540.
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1539-1543
Depicted from a series of poems by Nizami Ganjavi -
1555-1561. Moscow. Originally served to glorify the Russian Orthodox church and the Czar, now is a secularized World Heritage site and tourist destination.
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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Mi Wanzhong. Calligraphy by Chen Meng. Ink. 1570-1628.
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This artwork is also meant to provide a spiritual experience, but in this case within the culture of India and Hinduism.
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Johannes Vermeer
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1672-1674. Lahore, Pakistan.
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18th century. This rug is an example of an object that could be classified as fine art or as craft.
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Sir Isaac Newton wrote the book and demonstrated the first use of the color wheel and the color spectrum.
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Andrea Buffalini. Croatia.
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Thomas Gainsborough.
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Kitagawa Utamaro
Lovers, frontispiece from Poem of the Pillow, Japan, 1788. Wood block relief print, 9¾" × 14¾". -
Jacques Lois David
A death portrait right after a murder. The women sent him a note and as he was reading it, she walks in stabs him and leaves. -
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Oil on canvas, 35" × 64".
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Théodore Géricault. Many writers did not consider this painting to be a work of art when it was first made, because it did not conform to the concept of fine art at that time.
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Theodore Gericault
He made a replica of the raft, interviewed survivors of the incident, and studied bodies at the morgue to make the painting. -
John Constable
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Wisconsin
Made betweeen 1800-1860
Carved wood and adorned in wool fabric.
Used as medicine. -
Thomas Cole
series
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Joseph Mallord William Turner "Like an elemental vortex"
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Utagawa Kunisada. 1849.
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Vincent VanGogh
Depicts the lives of a lower class civilization. -
Paul Gauguin.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh. Rome.
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Pomo Tribe
1890-1910
Clamshell disks, red woodpecker feathers, quail topknots, tree materials, 7" diameter.
These baskets were made a ceremonial gifts that mark significant moments in a woman’s life. Women treasured the baskets and were cremated with them at death. ALthough they were so sacred, they were used in everyday life. -
Paul Cezanne
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Mary Cassatt.
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Akan Culture. 1900s. Asante Kingdom, Ghana.
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Paul Gauguin.
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Louis H. Sullivan
One of the first innovative tall buildings in twentieth century. -
Paul Cezanne. When Cezanne made this painting, he broke with the traditional ways of depicting space and form.
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1906-1907. Djenne, Mali.
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Antonio Gaudí
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Pablo Piccaso. Artwork reflects the cultural moment when it was made, in this case, the modern era at the beginning of the 20th century.
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JosÉ Guadalupe Posada. This poster, which was inexpensive and widely distributed at the time it was made, is now collected in libraries and museums.
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Wassily Kandinsky. This painting is expressionistic in style, with its bold colors and the immediacy with which it was painted.
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Giorgio de Chirico. Oil on canvas. In this example of multipoint perspective, the dark structure seems to be overly tall while the white building stretches back to the horizon, resulting in an unreal or illogical depiction of space.
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Marcel Duchamp. Oil on canvas.
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Suprematist Exhibition
Black square is just as good as the image -
Hannah Hoch.
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Paul Klee.
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Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on canvas, 9" × 12 3/4".
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Wee Gee
NY, NY
1930-1950s
Showcases the Seedy side of New York City
Wee Gee was a crime scene photographer and often was at the scene before the crime happened. -
Meret Oppenheim.
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Pablo Picasso. Etching, aquatint, and drypoint.
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Wood, pigment. In Nigeria in Africa, this sculpture was meant to reinforce the power of the local king.
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Joan Miró.
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Edward Hopper.
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James Hampton. c. 1950–1964. Gold and silver aluminum foil, Kraft paper, and plastic over wood furniture, paperboard, and glass, 180 pieces in all; completed over time after Hampton worked his day job.
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Salvador Dali
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Big book of colors.
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Joseph Cornell.
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Morris Louis.
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Yves Klein invents blue and patents it.
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Moshe Safdie
Designed for Expo '67 in Montreal -
In this example we see Maria twice, both as a helpless and vulnerable patient on the operating table in a foreign land and as the supplicant with her children imploring the help of the Virgin. In the Retablo, the Virgin looms large in the bleak, gray room, with golden rays, miraculously intervening in a fearful episode. Extraneous details are omitted to better emphasize the victim’s helplessness and the Virgin’s power.
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Claes Oldenburg
Both Painting and Sculpture.
Molded canvas. -
Josef Albers. 1963. Starting to figure out color relativity.
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Eero Saarinen and Associates. constructed 1963-1965; stainless steel.
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Wayne Thiebaud
Oil on canvas 30" x 36"
Food as a visual display and a pop icon. This piece shows the plentifulness, standardization, and bright colors in mass production of cafeteria food. -
Andy Warhol. One of a portfolio of ten screenprints on white paper.
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David Hockney. Acrylic on canvas.
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Frank Stella.
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Robert Smithson
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Louise Nevelson.
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Joseph Beuys. Volkswagen bus made in 1961, 24 sleighs, each equipped with fat, felt blankets, belts, and torchlight.
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Alexander Calder. Sheet metal, wire, and paint.
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Alexander Calder. Sheet metal, bolts, and paint, 25' high, destroyed on 9/11.
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Robert Smithson
Made of stones, algae, and other organic materials. -
Ronald W. Davis. Acrylic on canvas, support: 110 1/2" × 130 3/4".
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Veiled Fence running for 24.5 miles.
18 ft high. -
Marilyn Levine.
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Jean-Michel Basquaise
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Bruce Nauman. Neon tubing, transformer and wire,
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Louise Bourgeois
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Claes Oldenburg, Coosjevan Bruggen, and Frank O. Gehry.
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Sue Coe
Watercolor and Graphite 22' x 30'
Part of a large series called Porkopolis. In this series shows living animals being turned into packages of meat. Coe emphasizes the carnage and sympathizes with the pigs. -
Lorna Simpson
18 color Poleroid prints, 21 engraved plastic plaques, and plastic letters.
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Lynn Hershman
Interactive Computer Installation
Viewer touches part of her body to unlock areas of the intimation. Not all areas are sexual. -
Carrie Mae Weems
Documentation of intimate moments in African American lives. -
Fleix Gonzales Torres
175 pounds of candy that represent Fleix's boyfriend, Ross.
Viewers are invited to take a piece of candy showing the loss of Ross. -
1991 (Reclining) - 2008 (Standing) - Burma
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Arata Isozaki. Computer generated.
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Jeff Koons. Stainless steel, soil, and flowering plants. References 18th-century formal European garden. Designed to relentlessly entice, to create optimism, and to instill "confidence and security", says Koons.
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Fred Wilson
This revolutionized the way museums are set up. -
Tons of regular people helped create the quilt while raising money for AIDS research.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
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Rudolf Stingel
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Nam June Paik. 49-channel, closed-circuit video installation, neon, steel, and electronic components, 15' ×40' × 4'.
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Robert Gober.
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Shirin Neshat.
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Martin Puryear. 1997–1999. Stainless steel, bronze, 540" × 360" × 136".
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Frank O. Gehry. Spain 1997. Represents art from the time it was built. The sweeping forms and refined surfaces resemble modern abstract sculpture.
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Sophie Calle
A part of a series where a novelists writes about Sophie's life and she turns the novel into her life. -
Andreas Gursky. Cibachrome print.
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Lorna Simpson. Still from 16 mm film transferred to DVD.
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Douglas Schlesier. Charcoal on paper with gold leaf and color.
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Dale Chihuly.
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Cai Guo-Qiang. Gunpowder on two sheets of paper.
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Tony Oursler. Fiberglass sculpture and DVD projection.
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Wangechi Mutu. Cut-and-pasted printed paper with watercolor, synthetic polymer paint, and pressure-sensitive stickers on transparentized paper.
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Dona Schlesier.
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Kutlug Ataman. 40-channel video installation with tables and chairs; color, sound.
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Tim Hawkinson.
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Cai Guo-Qiang. An example of art that moves and changes in time with no fixed form.
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Richard Serra. Eight steel sheet sculptures, each 12 to 14 feet in height and weighing 44 to 276 tons.
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Kehinde Wiley
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Damien Hirst. Platinum life-size cast of a human skull, human teeth, and diamonds, 6.75" x 5" x 7.5"
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Margaret Lazzari.
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Stelarc
Grew his own third ear on his arm. -
Olafur Eliasson.
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Tauba Aurbach. Contains every color ever on the RGB scale.
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Nick Cave
Costumes for performance. -
Henry Hargreaves
Series
Recreations of death row criminal's last supper.
