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Prehistoric cave paintings, perhaps related to ancient ritual regarding the natural world
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Neolithic town in Anatolia, early example of urban life.
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Zhou Dynasty Bronze vessel used ritualistically.
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Large effigy likely constructed by the Adena culture.
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A loss of artistic principles resulted in flattening and poor perspective in art
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Invented movable type using clay
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Largest Medieval manuscript in the world. It is also known as the Devil's Bible.
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Mu-Qi. Southern Song Dynasty, Dailoxu-ji, Kyoto. Ink on paper. Reflects Zen Buddhism, emphasizing meditation and simplicity.
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Created by renaissance painter Filippo Brunelleschi
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Painted by Masaccio, it is one of the first successful examples of linear perspective.
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Inca, Peru. Silver. Glorifies the maize plant which was integral to Incan life.
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Leonardo Da Vinci. Milan. Depicts ritual meal as religious ceremony. Deifies Jesus.
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A style of architecture and art in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Western cultures (specifically in Europe) characterized by exaggeration, overstatement, and a flare for artifice and the theatrical
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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Jacques-Louis David. Neoclassical
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Goya Y Lucientes.
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Goya Y Lucientes.
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John Constable. Offered nineteenth-century urban art audiences an invigorating view of a healthier way of life
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Joseph Mallord William Turner. One seascape was painted upside down; the canvas can be flipped
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Cole Thomas. Depicted the ongoing battle between human development and natural forces
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Eugene Delacroix. Romanticism
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This is the first photograph to include a visible person
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Gustave Corbet.
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Gustave Courbet.
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A style of art with imagery that resembles what we see in the world around us. Is also known as realism
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Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist and semiotician. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiology in the 20th century.
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James Whistler.
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Paul Cezanne.
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Focused on traditional craftsmanship as opposed to industrial production
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Pastels
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Vincent Van Gogh.
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Paul Gauguin. Oil on wood
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Vincent Van Gogh.
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Vincent Van Gogh.
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Paul Gauguin.
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Utilized curved lines inspired by natural structures like plants and flowers
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Henry Ossawa Tanner. First African-American celebrity artist in the United States.
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Intricate weaving, precious feathers, and beads, made by mothers and given to their daughters. Pomo tribe, California.
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Pablo Picasso. Marked the beginning of the Blue Period
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One of the first films ever made to have a full production value and international success
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Antoni Gaudi. Building designed to look very organic, part of Art Nouveau Period
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a twentieth century art movement that abandoned a single point of view and mainly used simple geometric shapes
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An artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized speed, technology, youth, and violence, and objects such as the car, the aeroplane, and the industrial city
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Early 20th century avant-garde European art movement
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Visual imagery that does not copy reality. This may be achieved by simplifying, distorting, or exaggerating objects from nature
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a post WWII art movement that focused on self expression
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by Vladimir Tatlin 1919. Wood and Metal.
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20th century art movement influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud. Fantastic and dreamlike imagery drawn from the subconscious; or automatic drawing similar to doodling
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An architectural style based around simple geometry with little adornment.
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James Van Der Zee. Captured the real life of African Americans in Harlem during the 1920's
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Constantin Brancusi. Concentrated on the animal's movement, rather than physical qualities
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by Rene Magritte. Painting.
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French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International
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Pablo Picasso.
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late 19th and 20th century artists who develop new concepts in their work
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Isamu Noguchi. Modernist furniture. Simple and harmonious.
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Created a standardized color palette
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Asger Jorn. Painting
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An international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe
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Art book by Asger Jorn and Guy Debord. Renowned for its sandpaper cover
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Alberto Giacometti. Emblem of the grim realities of the post World War II consciousness
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Asger Jorn. Painting. Neo-Dada
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Wayne Thiebaud. Oil on canvas. Display of standardized, colorful, mass-produced food during the era of Pop Art.
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by Joseph Kosuth. A chair, a photograph of the chair, and an enlarged dictionary definition of the word "chair".
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On Kowara. Produced nearly 3,000 of them over more than four decades. 1966 -2013
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Bruce Nauman. Attempted to levitate while lying between two chairs
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Richard Long. A very simple earthwork
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David Hammons. Critiques the systemic denial of an equal education available to Black youth
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Michael Heizer. Created by removing tons of earth, creating a negative space
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Robert Smithson. Intended the shed to slowly collapse under the weight of the Earth on top
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Asger Jorn. Painting. Abstract
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Pablo Picasso.
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Nancy Holt. Concrete tubes act as viewfinders framing the sun
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Magazine.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 24.5 miles of nylon fabric
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Walter De Maria. 400 polished stainless steel poles in a grid.
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Romare Bearden.
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Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi. Aboriginal, Papunya, Australia, 1980. Paint on canvas.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat. Filled with his raw energy and emotion
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Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of radical feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world.
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Nancy Spero. Handprinting and printed collage on paper
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David Hammons.
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Adrian Piper. Conceptual art concerning the nature of race
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Keith Haring. Offset Lithograph.
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Cindy Sherman. Chromogenic color print.
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Carrie Mae Weems, A photographic investigation of a single domestic space in which the artist staged scenes
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Underground feminist movement that began in the early nineties, which was closely tied to punk music, radical politics, and a DIY aesthetic
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Glenn Ligon. Repeats "I do not always feel colored" from Zora Neale Hurston's essay "How it Feels to Be Colored Me"
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Fred Wilson. Presents Museum's collection in a new, critical light
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco. Sought to make visible the history of abuse, captivity and exploitation of indigenous peoples
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Shirin Neshat. Series. Examines the complexities of women's identities in the midst of a changing cultural landscape in the Middle East
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Lorna Simpson. A collection of hair pieces, depicting everything from Afros and braided hair to blond locks and doll wigs.
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Ai Weiwei. Dropped and smashed a 2000-year old ceremonial urn. Aimed to provoke controversy
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Yinka Shonibare. Headless life-sized mannequins recreate the poses of the subjects of the original paintings
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Nikki S Lee. Photography
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Eduardo Kac. A transgenic artwork resulting in a bunny with fluorescent protein
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Doris Salcedo. Installation at 8th International Istanbul Biennal
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Rithy Panh. Documentary. Brought together two former prisoners of the regime with their former captors at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
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Francis Alys. Walked along the 1949 ceasefire line, known as the Green Line that divided Jerusalem until June 1967, with a leaking can of green paint
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Maya Lin. References the Great Serpent Mound
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Kehinde Wiley. Naturalistic paintings of black people in heroic poses
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Kehinde Wiley
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Kara Walker. Confronts 19th century racial stereotypes though heightened exaggeration
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Ken Gonzales-Day. From erased lynching series
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by Ai Weiwei. Inspired by Monument to the Third International
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Stelarc. Ear constructed from scaffolding under the skin
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Rodney McMillan. Found Chair
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Fritz Haeg. Homes for wild animals in urban settings
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Alfredo Jar. Memorial for the victims of the 17 years long pinochet military rule and dictatorship
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Maren Hassinger. Shopping bags with love note inside inflated by human breath.
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Edgar Arceneaux. Centered around the city of Detroit
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Maren Hassinger. Wire ropes
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Zaha Hadid. East Lansing, Michigan. An example of Deconstructivist architecture resembling abstract sculpture over traditional architectural forms.
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Photographs of the last meals of famous death row inmates
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The Lone Wolf Recital Corps is a Multidisciplinary performance collective founded by Terry Adkins
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Erdem Gunduz. Nonviolent Protest. 300 people joined over the course of 8 hours
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Nick Cave.
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Theaster Gates. Bound volumes of Jet and Ebony magazines
