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Gizeh, Egypt.
Oriented to the sun, these are the pharaoh's tombs, who were believed to be the sons of the sun god Re. -
Wiltshire, England.
It is likely that the stone arrangement marks the midsummer solstice, needed for planting cycles. -
Minoan, from the palace at Knossos. Glazed earthenware, 12.5" high. Archaeological Museum, Heraklion
This goddess has likely evolved from the Earth Mother deity; she represents male and female regenerative powers of a snake shedding its skin. -
1550-1500 BCE
This is considered the Mona Lisa of pre-history. -
Thebes, Egypt.
Unlike many of the pharaoh's tombs, this one was only partly plundere, leaving a vast amount of funerary treasure. -
This mask was said to strengthen the spirit of the mummy and guard the mummy's soul. It was adorned with gold and gems, and includes very stylized features of the ancient ruler. This is considered a devotional sculpture.
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Eturia, Italy. From a cemetery near Cerveteri. Museo Nationale di Villa Giulia, Rome.
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The building of the Parthenon was started in 447, and ended in 431 with the additions of decorative architecture.
The Parthenon was constructed in such a way that it fooled the eye into seeing something different. During this time, it was believed that the Greeks had some form of linear perspective. -
Athens, Greece. From the Dipylon cemetery. National Archeological Museum, Athens.
This stele depicts the deceased woman with a servant bringing her jewelry. -
Bronze. 51" high.
Greek, Hellenistic period.
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Shanxi, China.
This terra-cotta army is only part of the funerary complex built for the First Emperor of China. -
Teotihuacan, Mexico.
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Rome. Bronze, 11'6" tall. Located in Musei Capitolini, Rome
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Moasic from the Emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli Sosus of Pergamon.
It is on the floor of the villa, exhibiting how wealthy people "walked all over food". There is also something extremely contemporary about it, and it almost looks like it could be seen on Pinterest. -
China.
One of the earliest forms of printing. It involved cutting into a wooden block, inking it up, and stamping it down. -
Norway.
This ship burial was the tomb of a high-ranking princess. -
990-1051 Northern Song Dynasty. Made Movable Type.
Movable type is composed of letters that are carved individually, so you can move them into different sequences to create sentences.
Bi Sheng took sticky clay and cut into it characters as thick as a coin. He then baked them in a fire to make them hard. After thus, he prepared an iron plate with ask and wax. For each character, there were several types. -
Naltunai Isvaram Temple, Punjai, India
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Khajuraho, India.
This is one of the thirty temples on this site. It is dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, or Mahavira. -
This is a huge historic book that includes some bible aspects, but also talks a lot about the devil. Besides containing the Bible, it also contains 5 other complete texts.
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China, 13th century. Hanging scroll. Paint on silk, 50.4" x 30.7"
Located at Museum fuer Ostasiatiche Kunst, Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Berlin -
Duccio di Buoninsegna.
This painting looks weird-it is flat and the angels are sitting oddly in space. There are also perspective issues here, as the items at the front appear too small to be there. -
Dante Alighieri
This was made after Dante died of malaria. -
Giotto. 1314-1327
This has more realistic volume, but it still doesn't look quite right. However, the perspective is improving. -
Japan, 1192-1333. Kamakura period.
Location: Daitokuji Temple, Kyoto -
Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Fresco.
While the painting is beautiful, it does not have good perspective, and does not show a full understanding of lines and space -
Korea. Movable Metal Type.
Jikji was the first use of movable metal type. However, the full text is no longer available. -
This was a cookbook about how once can achieve good health. It included information on farming, diets, agriculture, and the like.
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Carlo Crivelli. Tempera and gold on wood panel.
The apples and flies in the painting are symbols of sin. While the painting is executed quite well, there are still many perspective issues and issues with scales. The fly is too large--about the size of the baby's foot. -
Masaccio. Fresco
This was painted ten years after the discovery of linear perspective, and it was the first piece to demonstrate command of the rules. The figures in this painting appear to have volume, and Masaccio is credited with being the initiator of Florentine realism. -
Masaccio.
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Jan Van Eyck. Oil painting on oak panel, full length double portrait
He had a significant influence on the Italian Renaissance, and his skills with realism were quite amazing for the time. The space and lighting in this piece are fairly realistic, and it was also the first successful painting of a mirror.
This was painted in geometrical orthographical perspective. -
Jan Van Eyck.
A painting of Virgin Mary nursing baby Jesus. In this image, Mary becomes a part of the architecture, especially with her robe, This painting shows the tenderness and lovingness for the child, Jesus. The apples and oranges on the windowsill symbolize paradise. -
Made movable metal type with screw cresses. The screw cress was combined with the type to create a press that could make books in a speedy manner. This in turn makes books more accessible.
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Between 158-180 copies printed.
42 Line Bible
Printed in a black-letter type. -
Albertus Pictor. 1470s.
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Sandro Botticelli. Italy. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5'8" x 9'1".
Located at Galleria degali Uffizi, Florence -
Janez iz Kastva.
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Albrecht Dürer. Woodblock print.
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Raphael. Italy. Panel Painting.
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Leonardo Da Vinci.
1503-1506
displayed behind bulletproof glass -
Ming Dynasty. 1427-1509
This is a southern academic style painting painted around the time of Brunelleschi's discovery of perspective. This piece includes many complicated elements. -
Raphael, 1509-1510
This painting shows the tender relationship between Mary and Jesus. In this painting, Joseph is a background character. The use of the veil symbolizes how Mary wraps the baby in it in the manger. -
Raphael. 1509-1511
Fresco--painted on wet plaster
This painting comes from the Renaissance, and it shows the School of Athens--the environment of Aristotle -
Michelangelo. 1508-1512.
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Titian. 1519-1526.
Titian was a master of light and color, and this piece has absolutely beautiful color in it. He also was quite good at painting figures that look realistic. -
Lucas Cranach the Elder. German.
This story box Adam and Eve is one of the main traps that women have been caught up in--says that female sexuality is tied into sin. -
Titian.
Completed for the Duke of Urbino Guidobaldo.
The painting represents the allegory of marriage. -
Rosso Fiorentino. 1530-1540Located at the British Museum, London.
The use of shading in this piece mimics light washing over the human form. -
Ligier Richier.
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Moscow, 1555-1561.
Originally, the purpose was to glorify the Russian Orthodox church and the power of the Czar. -
Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Used a process of combining objects to make them look like something else--this is called object oriented abstraction. -
Michelangelo. 1475-1564. Sculpture.
This statue tricks the eye, and creates the illusion that everything is to scale, but it is not. Michelangelo made David's head much larger, so that when viewed from below, it looks proportionate to the rest of his body. -
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. (1556-1569)
He was an artist who focused primarily on depicting peasant life. The painting shows the traditional practices of a Flemish wedding. -
Pieter Bruegel The Elder
Shows the totality of death, that everyone must eventually die. -
Michelangelo. 1598-99
This sculpture shows the tenderness and intimacy between mother and child. There is not a lot of evidence of crucifixion in this piece. At this time, Jesus would have been 33, however in the sculpture, Mary looks almost younger than her son--she maintained her virginal purity so she stays looking quite young. -
Jaganath.
From The Garden of Truth
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Juan Sanchez Cotan. 1602-1603.
At the time this was painted, people were very into high drama, therefore the piece is very dramatic and gaudy.
In the baroque period, this depicted a story of good and evil--this shows how the artist is able to communicate a story to us as long as we understand the cultural context of the time.
It was a meditation on goodness, purity, and excess. -
Frans Snyders.
Once again, a contrast between good and evil is shown.
There was also a strategic placement of items here. -
Artemisia Gentileschi. 1614-20
Artemisia was raped and sexually assaulted repeatedly, this painting could be interpreted as a form of revenge and empowerment. -
Peter Paul Rubens, mid 1630s.
This piece is not necessarily about motherhood, but it speaks of a mother who is not afraid to be open about her sexuality. Her son is Cupid, and she falls in love with Adonis after being accidentally hit by her son's arrow. In this painting, Venus is in power and has control over the situation. -
Isfahan, Iran
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Jan Davidsz de Heem.
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Agra, India.
This famous Islamic shrine is a memorial to the wife of a great Shah. -
Johannes Vermeer. 1657-1658
This painting shows the Dutch interior--the presence of the milkmaid herself shows realness. She has a solid and substantial presence in this image. She is not high class, she is just a commoner, who is why this piece is so important as it depicts the reality. -
Rembrandt
Reflects an interior state of being. -
Rembrandt.
Much more light in this piece (color wise)
How does color affect the mood here?
Across the three paintings, his expression doesn’t change too much. However, in this one he seems to have a sense of warmth to him -
Jan Steen. 1663-64
There is a ton of sin represented in this painting--they are all partying and having a good time. The master of the house is also flirting with the maid, as the woman of the house is so caught up in the party that she is stepping on the bible. -
Purchased by Louis the 13th. He bought this land as a place to go hunting, as it was all wildlife at that time. The palace itself is quite elaborate, and includes layers of decadent buildings. The interior of the palace is quite honestly, very overwhelming.
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1749-1832, German
Talked about how colors make you feel, and how they impact the brain and emotions. he did not believe that darkness was an absence of light (though it is). He also started researching the idea of an afterimage and also optical illusions. -
Thomas Gainsborough. Oil on canvas.
National Gallery, London -
Giovanni Paolo Panini.
Oil on canvas. -
Etienne-Louis Boullée.
Architecture that expresses a purpose. Emphasis on clean lines and vanishing points. -
1786-1889. French.
He was a physicist who often explored the idea of an afterimage. He developed and studied a hemispherical color system instead of the color wheel. By doing so, he was trying to talk about how we account for the gradient of light. -
1787-1851
Discovered that there is a latent image that can be captured over a shorter period of time, and it will produce an even better image.
"Daguerrotypes" -
Kitagawa Utamaro.
depicts lovers engaged in sex. -
Jacques Louis David.
Maret is a friend of his, they both want to overthrow the government and have a new start. Maret has a skin disease that causes him to be in the bathtub a lot, but he still does a lot of work. This is him right after he has been murdered. What he is holding is the murderer's letter she used to enter his house. He is stabbed by her, and then she leaves.There would normally be a lot of angels in a piece like this but it is empty--almost looking unfinished. -
1800-1877
Discovered photo sensitive paper.
Figured out that the translucent negative, if made on transparent paper, can make the image over again.
"Calotypes" oir "talbortypes" -
William Blake, 1795-1805.
This was devoted to John Milton. -
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
The woman in this photo is a prostitute who does not have full power over her sexuality as the painting is still meant to attract the male gaze. -
Theodore Gericault.
Artists veer away from classical imagery and move into current event type images.
Difference between dead and living existing on one plane together. -
This was a life-cast of Bonaparte's face, made after he died from stomach cancer.
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
1826/27
This photo took him days to develop--at LEAST one full day. We know this because the way the light hits multiple buildings could never occur.
It was printed on a metal plate.
This marks the beginning of being able to capture something without drawing. -
First known photograph of a human being/with a human being in it
The man in the photo was having his shoes shined, so he sat still enough to be captured in the photo! -
Utagawa Kunisada. 1849-1853
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Roger Fenton
Raises the question of is what we are seeing real or staged?
Roger and his crew say they set up they camera and started taking pictures as cannonballs started hitting the road. -
Edouard Manet.
This shows an empowered female prostitute. She is looking you straight in the eye, direct and unafraid. However, this is a very racist painting. -
1857-1913
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Èduard Manet. Painting.
This was the first use of impressionism, and Manet's sense of light is fairly successful. However, his scale is off, especially on the woman in the background--she is far too big. this painting marks the beginning ion the decline in naturalism. -
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, July 5-6, 1863.
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Gustave Courbet.
The woman in this piece looks a bit messy, depicting that this was probably done after she had had intercourse. A subject of male desire, she is "already used up," some would say. -
James McNeil Whistler
This painting shows his respect for his mother, but also shows that he feared her. -
Thomas Eakins.
The surgical theatre. Eakins is the man in the background doing sketches. -
1880s.
This is a cast of the face of a girl who was found in the Seine. There were no signs of struggle or murder--it was believed she died by suicide.Worker at the funeral place thought her face was so pure and beautiful, so he decided to make a cast of her face. -
Edgar Degas. Pastel on paper.
This piece is primarily concerned with the delicate use of color. -
Edouard Manet.
Here is shown a woman who is part of the prostitute business. The oranges symbolize prostitution. She is gazing out with a relaxed look and is fully receiving the male gaze. -
Vincent Van Gogh
While he is alive, he believes this is his masterpiece. You are able to connect with the people in this painting because you are getting a glimpse at the life of commoners. -
Vincent Van Gogh.
At this time, artists are intentionally trying to flatten paintings again, as the tenderness of perfect perspective dissipates in favor of thick paint. -
Vincent Van Gogh.
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Vincent Van Gogh. Oil on canvas
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Marie Cassatt.
Most of Marie's paintings appear to be very tender. -
Claude Monet
1892-1894
Very focused on light and how light hits the cathedral at different times of the day. Painting at this time is more about paint, light, and direct experience -
Paul Cezanne.
The artist is not bound to represent real products in real space, which allows him to think about the nature of something and depict it in a more emotional way.
this is not good perspective, but he did this by choice. -
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 1892-1895
Made during the Golden Era of France.
Depicts the Moulin Rouge in Paris. While Toulouse-Lautrec was more of a graphic designer, he also did art. -
Mary Cassatt. Pastel on paper, 21" x 17 3/4"
Located at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France -
Paul Gauguin, French.
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Paul Cezanne. Oil on canvas, 23 1/2" x 28 1/4"
Located at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow -
Pablo Picasso. Spain/France. Oil on canvas, 8' x 7'8"
Located at MOMA, New York -
Marianne Stokes.
Death as a woman. -
Egon Schiele.
Depicts a newborn baby and a mother who died during childbirth. -
Wassily Kandinsky. Underglass painting with ink and color
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1914-1973
Painter and sculptor.
Thought that abstraction had become stale; the only thing that can really speak to people is kitsch.
Academic art had become too elitist for people to relate to. -
James Ensor.
The grouping around the table evokes vibes of the Last Supper, but Christ and his apostles are replaced by some grotesque looking characters. -
Marcel Duchamp. Photographed by Alfred Stieglitz.
A bit of controversy surrounds this piece because Stieglitz photographed it and claimed the photograph as his piece. Begins a time of questioning whether photographing others' work can be considered original art. -
Man Ray.
She was a poet who was involved in the Dada and Surrealist scene. She wrote the Feminist Manifesto in 1914. She also believe that virginity traps one in a state of passivity, and wanted to obliterate gender roles and gender expectations. -
Paul Klee. Drawing on oil paper.
Shows a nice use and understanding of meandering, playful lines. -
Hannah Höch
Shows images that question gender bias and images that point top being fluid on the gender spectrum. -
Vladmir Tatlin. 1919-1920
Never built. -
Hannah Hoch. 1919-1920
Staatliche Museum, Berlin. -
Diego Rivera
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Sergei Eisenstein.
USSR
Odessa Steps -
Georgia O'Keefe.
Oil on canvas.
Washington, DC -
Rene Magritte
"this is not a pipe"--it is not an actual pipe, rather it is a picture of a pipe -
F.T Marinetti and Fillia.
Was a cookbook. Some things written in this book include the following statements:
People think, dream, and act according to the food they eat
Wanted food to reflect ideas of visualization
Abolition of the knife and fork
Music and poetry forbidden at dinner -
Meret Oppenheim
Shows a woman with a long claw-like nail strangling a newborn child.
Oppenheim created this piece to be a talisman to avoid getting pregnant so she could instead dedicate her life to being an artist. -
1931-1994
Derive: a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society; a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. -
Written by Walter Benjamin and centers around the concept of authenticity in artwork. He questioned if the original was the same as the copy off the work (typically a photographic copy). Also believed that reproductions of art lack the originality of the original piece, and said that passion and feeling live on in the original, and cannot be captured or felt in the copy.
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Meret Oppenheim. Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon.
Located at the MoMA.
Shows the surrealist movement of combinations of strange elements in a piece. -
Dorthea Lange.
She was commissioned by the government to document and symbolize the Great Depression. -
Pablo Picasso.
Drypoint, aquatint, and etching, with scraping on copper in black on ivory laid paper.
At this time, Picasso does a lot of works on the subject of grief. -
Käthe Kollwitz.
Dedicated life to portraying they reality of existence.
Forced to resign from her position in drawing and painting when Nazis took over, her work was taken out of museums.
Considered a degenerate artist by Hitler. -
Leni Riefenstahl
Claimed she had no idea of the Holocaust -
Frida Kahlo.
One Frida is wearing a Victorian style dress, while the other is wearing a Mexican style dress. This piece was made after her divorce from Diego Rivera. -
Edward Hopper.
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Jimmie Kewanwytewa. Hopi, Third Mesa, Oraibi, 1942.
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Norman Rockwell.
From a series of paintings called The Four Freedoms (off of FDR's Four Freedoms State of the Union address)
He just wanted to show how he saw American life. This was created at the end of WWII, and when people overseas saw this painting, they were mad because it showed Americans as living easily while they were suffering from the war. -
1930s-1950s
New York
Photojournalist
Would often arrive at scene of crime before it even happened. -
Henri Matisse. 1950-1951.
Stained glass.
Chapel of the rosary, Vence, France -
Edgar Heap of Birds
in memory of Native Americans -
Le Corbusier. Ronchamps, France.
The church's design recalls praying hands, dove wings, and a boat hull, Christian symbols of divine generosity. -
America, 1956.
During this time, capitalism is king. Pantone started as a commercial printing company that began in the 1950s in New York. In today's world, the Pantone color matching system is a standardized color reproduction system. -
Joseph Cornell.
North Carolina Museum of Art. -
Yves Klein.
H mixed a color of blue and then claimed ownership of it. This sparked a debate over whether people could own colors. -
Morris Louis. 1958-1959.
Acrylic resin paint on canvas.
a highly praised painting. -
Yves Klein.
Woman rolled around on paper with paint on themselves. The women say that they didn't feel like they were being disrespected, they felt they were being treated as collaborators. -
Robert Rauschenberg.
Mixed media.
MoMA -
Andy Warhol.
This piece was created right around the time that capitalism begins to take over. -
Wayne Thiebaud.
Oil on canvas.
Reflection of mass-produced foods. -
Andy Warhol.
Gruesome images of empty room with electric chair. -
"GO TO HELL WITH YOUR MONEY BASTARD--STOP--REFUSE PRICE--STOP--NEVER ASKED FOR IT--AGAINST ALL DENCENCY MIX ARTIST AGAUNST HIS WILL IN YOUR PUBLICITY--STOP--I WANT PUBLIC CONFIRMATION NOT TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN YPUR REDICULOUS GAME JORN"
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Joseph Kosuth
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Eero Saarinen and associates
St. Louis, Missouri
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Andy Warhol.
Screen prints.
This piece was created just a few years after Marilyn's death. -
Juan Miro
Cast bronze statue -
Frank Stella. Acrylic on canvas, 10' x 10'
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Louise Nevelson. Painted wood.
Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. -
Bas Jan Ader, Los Angeles.
Gets a photo of himself right before he is about to fall. -
Alexander Calder. Sheet metal, wire, paint.
Private Collection. -
Alexander Calder.
Destroyed on September 11, 2001 during the attack on the World Trade Center -
Ronald W. Davis. Acrylic on Canvas.
This shows a great use of perspective and of color. -
Carolee Schneeman.
A performance piece.
The artist, unclothed, pulls a scroll of her books manuscript from her vagina in front of an audience, reading it as she pulls it out. -
Bas Jan Ader.
About nine months after he set sail on the Atlantic Ocean, his boat was found upside down. -
Nam June Paik. Was an installation and time-based art piece of a statue of buddha watching himself on a tv that was placed in front of him.
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Ana Mendieta.
Placed physical representations of her body in nature. -
Francesca Woodman.
Providence, Rhode Island.
Ghostlike image of women in domestic spaces. -
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 1972-76.
Sonoma and Marin counties, California. -
Duane Hanson.
NOT real people, though they look incredibly realistic. -
Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi.
Paint on canvas. -
Hannah Wilke, 1974-82.
Chewing gum sculpted like vaginas, placed on the artists body. -
Cindy Sherman.
Suggests that like Marilyn Monroe, Sherman was also playing a socially defined role. -
Keith Haring.
Silkscreen on Rives paper.
Shows celebratory images of life and fertility. -
Founded in 1985, they were an undergrad activist group that was upset with how exclusive the art world was. They have remained anonymous, and whenever they appeared in public, the wore gorilla masks to protect their identities.
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Sue Coe.
Britain.
Critique of food industries in contemporary industrial societies. -
Yasumasa Morimura.
Replaced a female body with an Asian male dressed like a female.
A modern remake of Olympia. -
Lorna Simpson.
This is one of her earlier pieces, in which she denies us the faces of those being show, and instead focuses only on hairstyles. -
Faith Ringgold.
Acrylic on canvas with printed, dyed, and pieced fabric.
Washington DC. -
Barbara Kruger.
shifting attitudes and conflicts that surround women, sexuality, and reproduction in Western culture. -
Keith Haring, 1958-1990
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1990s, Zine.
3rd wave feminism, a new era of feminism. -
Lynn Hershman.
interactive computer-video installation -
Sally Mann. 1884-1991.
A collection of photographs of her children, herself, and her husband.
It shows something more sensual about childhood--this is a controversial topic with many people, and some saw it as child pornography. -
Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Frank Gehry. 1985-1991
Venice, California. -
Glenn Ligon.
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Juane Quick-To-See-Smith. Oil, collage, mixed media on canvas. 5' x 8'4"
Located at the Museum of Art, Atlanta -
Catherine Opie.
exposing the complexities of gender and sexuality -
Louise Bourgeois
Talks about her relationship withy her mother.
"The friend (the spider – why the spider?) because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and useful as an araignée. She could also defend herself, and me, by refusing to answer ‘stupid’, inquisitive, embarrassing personal questions.
I shall never tire of representing her." -
Rineke Dijkstra.
Shown Image: Julie, Den Haag, Netherlands
February 29 1994
Is a series of photos taken right after birth when mothers can hold the baby. Creates a problem because it creates a standard. -
Shirin Neshat
Faceless Women of Allah Series 1994 -
Ai Wei Wei
Documentary: Never Sorry 2012 -
Shirin Neshat.
Pen and ink over gelatin silver print. -
Martin Puryear. 1997-1999. Stainless steel, bronze.
Getty Museum, Los Angeles. -
Andreas Gursky. Cibachrome print.
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Rachel Whiteread.
Holocaust Memorial.
Known for her large scale sculptures.
Concrete cast of the inside of a library--negative space made solid. -
Yoshitomo Nara. 1992-2000
Felt-tipped pen on postcard.
New York. -
Andy Goldsworthy,
Strom King Sculpture Park, New York. -
Takashi Murakami. Acrylic on canvas mounted on board, 11'9" x 18'1" (3 panels)
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Lorna Simpson, Film still
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Kiki Smith. Lithograph.
MoMA -
Cai-Guo-Qiang.
Gunpowder on two sheets of paper.
MoMA, New York. -
Catherine Opie
Is done in a Madonna and Child portrait style. She has made the body represent sexual identity that is not typically accepted. -
Marlene Dumas.
Face seen in profile lying down.
Enlarged to massive proportions. -
Francis Alÿs
Man walking through city with a can of paint that has a hole in the bottom of it.
Walking the green line towards Jerusalem. -
Wangechi Mutu.
Cut-and-pasted printed paper with watercolor, synthetic polymer paint, and pressure-sensitive stickers on transparentized paper.
MoMA, New York -
Richard Serra. Steel sheet sculptures.
Guggenheim Museum. -
David Altmejd.
You need death for growth.
Known for his large scale installations. -
Ai Wei Wei
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Margaret Lazzari. Acrylic on canvas.
Collection of the artist. -
LaToya Ruby Frazier
A series of photographs of her mother and her. She lived in a place where there was a lot of toxic waste that caused those living there to get illnesses. -
Mickalene Thomas.
Replacing images of whiteness with poc. -
8" x 8" x 8"
Includes every color imaginable on the RGB scale, and is an extremely dense color print -
Henry Hargreaves.
People who were seated on death row were given a last meal--he recreated them and the photographed them. -
On Kawara, 1966-2012
Japanese artist who died in 2014.
Each painting is just a date.
White lettering against a background.
Allows him to keep track of what's happening in his life.
Nearly 3000 of these paintings. -
Audrey Wollen, date unknown.
Sad Girl Theory: the internalized suffering off women should be categorized as an act of protest. -
Erdem Gunduz.
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Titus Kaphar
Had a desire to memorialize an individual but an inability to do so. -
Ebony G. Patterson
Hoping to raise questions about how we react in the art of looking.
Memorial practice in Jamaica. -
The Propeller Group
Funeral rituals of South Vietnam. -
Wangchi Mutu.
Almost always focuses on the female form and on empowerment of black people. -
2017
Starting to question why we use these statues glorifying racism.
