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Title: Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Medium: Oil on Cardboard

Origin: Paris/France

Date: post-impressionism, 1892

Extra Info: Quadrille is the dance the women in the pointing is about to perform and the artist uses strong silhouettes

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Title: La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge

Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Medium: poster, color lithograph

Origin: Paris/France

Date: post-impressionism, 1891

Extra Info: The posters generally form parts of the message

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Title: Mont Sainte-Victoire

Artist: Paul Cezanne

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Cezanne is from France, the painting is in Russia

Date: post-impressionism, 1900

Extra Info: artist revisited a subject that had preoccupied him for years, personal identification with mountain indicated by rich green tree in right foreground

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Title: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Artist: Georges Seurat

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: La Grade Jatte is an island in the river Seine, Seurat is from France

Date: post-impressionism, 1884-86

Extra Info: Seurat's painstaking and systematic technique reflected his scientific approach to painting 

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Title: The Starry Night

Artist: Vincent van Gough

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: France

Date: post-impressionism, 1889

Extra Info: artist painted this while in mental asylum, seen as the reflection of a disturbed mind

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Title: Nevermore

Artist: Paul Gauguin

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Painted in Tahiti, artist from France

Date: post-impressionism, 1897

Extra Info: depicts the Tahitian version of reclining nude, influence of Japanese prints and native designs 

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Title: The Scream

Artist: Edvard Munch

Medium: Oil, Pastel, and Casein on Cardboard

Origin: Norway

Date: post-impressionism, 1893

Extra Info: represents his own sense of disintegration, "I felt as though a scream went through nature - I though I heard a scream - I painted this picture- painted the clouds like real blood. The colors were screaming." -Munch

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Title: The Dream 

Artist: Henri Rousseau

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: France

Date: post-impressionism, 1910

Extra Info: painted shortly before his death and eleven years after the publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, painted to seem like it is daytime contrary to when dream happen (at night)

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Title: The Old Guitarist

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Medium: Oil on Panel

Origin: artist from Spain, bounced between Paris, Barcelona, Madrid before settling in Paris in 1904

Date: Symbolism, 1903

Extra Info: emphasizes somber quality with blue color and silver light, guitarist body style (long, thin, bony, etc.) conveys dejection, his inward focus indicates that he is blind, elongated forms of flickering silver light evoke spirituality of El Greco (1500s artist)

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Title: Women with the Hat

Artist: Henri Matisse

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: France

Date: Fauvism, 1905

Extra Info: portrait of the artist's wife, chromatic unity between figure and background

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Title: Joy of Life

Artist: Henri Matisse

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: France

Date: Fauvism, 1905-06

Extra Info: uses fauve color to create a mood of exuberant, creative eroticism, Matisse refers to the idyllic pastoral tradition of antiquity in the shepherd, to dancers circling Greek vases in the background, and to Classical nudes reclining and stretching

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Title: The Street

Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Germany

Date: Expressionism, 1907

Extra Info: combines exuberant Expressionist color with undulating (wavelike motion) forms reminiscent of Munch, the flat color areas can be related to Fauvism, The Street has a dreamlike quality created by unusual color and curvilinear, undulating forms

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Title: Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4 (formerly Painting Number 201, Winter)

Artist: Vassily Kandinsky

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Russia

Date: Expressionism, 1914

Extra Info: on of fours series representing seasons - this one being winter, Kandinsky creates a swirling, curvilinear motion, within which there are varied lines and shapes

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Title: Several Circles

Artist: Vassily Kandinsky

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Russia

Date: Expressionism, 1926

Extra Info: Kandinsky pursued  notion of the spiritual in art, did so by endowing delicate geometric shapes with a dynamic spatial tension, translucent circles float in a swirling space

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Title: The Large Blue Horses

Artist: Franz Marc

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Germany

Date: Expressionism, 1911

Extra Info: combines geometry with rich color, can be considered in the abstract terms of musical composition, Marc's believed animals were better suited than humans to the expression of cosmological ideas

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Title: Harmony in Red

Artist: Henri Matisse

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: France

Date: Matisse after Fauvism, 1908-09

Extra Info: women seems secondary to formal arrangement, same color on wall and table minimizes sense of perspective, despite the flattening of the form by minimal modeling, Matisse endows the women and the still-life objects with a sense of volume, Arabesques (outside window): an intricate pattern of interlaced or knotted lines consisting of stylized floral, foliage, and other motifs 

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Title: Dance I

Artist: Henri Matisse

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: France

Date: Matisse after Fauvism, 1909

Extra Info: it is the figures, rather than the arabesques, that dance, pose replicates those in the background of The Joy of Life, Matisse creates 3D illusion in the dancers themselves 

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Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Picasso is from Spain, later moved to France

Date: Cubism, 1907

Extra Info: representation of five nudes and a still life launched a spatial revolution, far left nearly replicates pose of ancient Egyptian kinds, Picasso's two central figures based on traditional poses of Venus, and the two figures on the right (seated and standing nude) based on African prototypes

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Title: Violin and Pitcher

Artist: Georges Braque

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: France

Date: Analytic Cubism, 1909-10

Extra Info: limited to dark greens and browns, subordinate to geometric exploration of 3D space, only reminders of space are violin and pitcher (brief reference to the horizontal surface of a table, and a vertical architectural support on the right) what would normally be air space is filled with cubism

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Title: Three Musicians

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: France

Date: Synthetic Cubism, 1921

Extra Info: arranged flat shapes of color to form objects, a clarinetist, a Harlequin playing a guitar in the center and a monk all built from unmodeled shapes of color arranged into tilted planes, occupy a more traditional space than analytic cubism

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Title: Guernica

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Spain

Date: Cubism, 1937

Extra Info: combined analytic and synthetic cubism and juxtaposed in a new Surrealist way, painting is Picasso's powerful protest against the brutality of war and tyranny (bombing over the town of Guernica)

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Title: Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Artist: Umberto Boccioni

Medium: Bronze Cast

Origin: Italy

Date: Futurism, 1913

Extra Info: This sculpture gives Futurism a plastic form, represents a man striding vigorously, as if with a definite goal in mind, Boccioni said sculpture must "make objects live by showing their extensions in space" and by revealing the environment as part of the object 

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Title: Broadway Boogie Woogie

Artist: Piet Mondrian

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: New York/America

Date: Expressionism/Cubism, 1942-43

Extra Info: grid pattern of the NY streets, flashing lights of Broadway, and the vertical and horizontal motion of cars and pedestrians are conveyed as flat, colorful shapes. Fast shifts of color and their repetition recall the strong, accented rhythm of boogie-woogie, a popular form of music

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Title: Nude Descending a Staircase

Artist: Marcel Duchamp

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: New York - The Armory Show

Date: Futurism/Cubism, 1912

Extra Info: very scandalous, humorous attack on Futurist proscription against traditional Academic nudity , the women in the painting is shown at different points in her descent, so the painting resembles a series of consecutive movie stills, unframed and superimposed

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Title: Lucky Strike

Artist: Stuart Davis

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America 

Date: Synthetic Cubism, 1921

Extra Info: flattened box of cigarettes was influenced by collage, words and numbers recall early newspaper collages, subject itself reflects American consumerism (advertises a product by its package), thus an important early forerunner of Pop Art

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Title: From Slavery through Reconstruction

Artist: Aaron Douglas

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Harlem/America

Date: Synthetic Cubism, 1934

Extra Info: second in 4 part series of Aspects of Negro Life, depicts 3 events following American Civil War. At the right, there is rejoicing news of the Emancipation Proclamation. Man on soapbox in center represents the success of the black man, whose voice is now being heard. In the background, the Union army leaves the South, and Reconstruction with its anti-Black backlash follows

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Title: Black Square

Artist: Kazimir Malevich

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Russia

Date: Suprematism (Cubism/Futurism), 1929

Extra Info: First work of suprematism, black square was an expression of the cosmic, of pure feeling, and the white was the void beyond feeling

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Title: Fountain (Urinal)

Artist: Marcel Duchamp

Medium: Sculpture (urinal)

Origin: New York/America

Date: Dada, 1917

Extra Info: When Duchamp added a title to an object, he called the result a "ready-made". He turned the sculpted urinal upside down, signed it and called it Fountain. The work was rejected by the society, and Duchamp resigned his membership

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Title: Collage Arranged According to the Laws of Chance

Artist: Jean (Hans) Arp

Medium: Torn and Pasted Paper

Origin: Artist is from Switzerland, art is in American now

Date: Dada, 1916-17

Extra Info: claims to have glued torn paper where it fell after some movement to prevent overlap. By tilting the rectangles slightly and leaving the edges ragged, Arp animated the image and created the impression that the shapes are trying to arrange themselves

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Title: Le Violon d'Ingres

Artist: Man Ray

Medium: photograph reworked with pencil and ink

Origin: France

Date: Surrealism, 1924

Extra Info: Rayograph (made without a camera by placing objects on light-sensitive paper), this photo combines Dada wordplay with Surrealist imagery. The nude recalls odalisques (female slave) of Ingres while the title refers to Ingres' hobby of playing violin. By adding sound holes, Man Ray puns on the similarity between the nude's back and the shape of a violin. The combination of the nume and the holes exemplifies the dreamlike imagery of surrealism

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Title: The Persistence of Memory

Artist: Salvado Dali 

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Spain

Date: Surrealism, 1931

Extra Info: famous for the melting clock, in a stark, oddly illuminated landscape, a number of elements referring to time - watches, eggs, a dead fish, a dead tree - are juxtaposed with a single living fly and swarming ants. Displaced from an unidentified landscape onto the eerie landscape are two rectangular platforms at left. The one in the foreground impossibly supports the tree, just as an impossible system of lighting produces strange color combonations

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Title: Time Transfixed

Artist: Rene Magritte

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Artist is Belgian, Art in America, maybe from France

Date: Surrealism, 1938

Extra Info: juxtaposed two familiar objects in order to evoke the unfamiliar, Poignardee in the French title, literally meaning "stabbed" with a dagger or sward, expresses the "transfixed," frozen quality of both the train and the time

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Title: Reclining Figure

Artist: Henry Moore

Medium: Sculpture from Roman Travertine

Origin: France (outside UNESCO)

Date: Sculpture derived from Surrealism, 1957-58

Extra Info: curvilinear masses and open spaces contrast with the stark rectangularity of the wall. Moor considered the mountainous quality of the forms and the majestic character of the upright head and torso a fitting metaphor for the noble aims of the UN

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Title: Big Red

Artist: Alexander Calder

Medium: Painted Sheet Metal and Steel Wire

Origin: America

Date: Dada/Surrealism, 1959

Extra Info: mobiles that hang from ceilings, their playful quality and the chance nature of air currents are reminiscent of Dada and Surrealism, although Calder is more abstract than many Dada and Surrealist artists.

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Title: American Gothic

Artist: Grant Wood

Medium: Oil on Beaverboard

Origin: America

Date: Regionalism/Social Realism, 1930

Extra Info: Although the influence of Gothic is evident in the vertical planes and the pointed arch of the farmhouse window, the figures and their environment are unmistakably those of the American Midwest

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Title: Gas

Artist: Edward Hopper

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Regionalism/Social Realism, 1940

Extra Info: combines regionalism and social realism and adds a sense of psychological isolation and loneliness, lone figure at gas pump (the form of which echoes his own), the road is a symbol of travel and time, seems to continue beyond the frame

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Title: Migratory Cotton Picker

Artist: Dorothea Lange

Medium: Photo - Gelatin-Silver Print

Origin: America

Date: Regionalism/Social Realism, 1940

Extra Info: used to illustrate rural poverty, in such images Lange succeeded in evoking sympathy for, and identification with, her subject, thereby achieving her political goals

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Title: Thinking about Death

Artist: Frida Kahlo

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: Mexico

Date: Surrealism, 1943

Extra Info: The abundance of foliage, juxtaposed with the death's head in the landscape tondo on Kahlo's forehead, alludes to Mexican mythology in which life and death are seen as integral aspects of nature's continuum

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Title: Black and White

Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Abstractionism, 1930

Extra Info: abstract depiction of various textures, motion, and form without any reference to recognizable objects, by eliminating color she further distances the image from nature and makes use of the same tonal range that is available to the black-and-white photographer

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Title: The Gate

Artist: Hans Hofmann

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Abstractionism, 1959-60

Extra Info: edges vary from precise to textured. Everywhere, the paint is structured, combining bold expressive color with the tectonic qualities of Cubism and related styles

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Title: Study for Homage to the Square

Artist: Josef Albers

Medium: Oil on Masonite

Origin: America

Date: Abstractionism, 1968

Extra Info: surfaces are smooth and the medium is subordinate to the color relationships among the squares, concentrated on the square because he believed that it was the shape furthest removed from nature

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Title: White Light

Artist: Jackson Pollack

Medium: Oil, Enamel, and Aluminum Paint on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Action Painting, 1954

Extra Info: The white, as indicated by the title, is what predominates, and the intensity of Pollack's light is everywhere present

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Title: Women and Bicycle

Artist: Willem de Kooning

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Action Painting, 1952-53

Extra Info: the anxiety created by the woman's appearance matches the frenzy of the brushstrokes. The assault on the figure, which seems to disintegrate into unformed paint, is also and attack on the idealized Classical image of female beauty 

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Title: Number 15

Artist: Mark Rothko

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Abstract Expressionism, 1957

Extra Info: By muting the colors and blurring the edges of the rectangles, Rothko softens the potential contrast between them. He likewise mutes the observer's attention to the "process" of painting by virtually eliminating the presence of the artist's hand

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Title: Spectrum III

Artist: Ellsworth Kelly

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Color Field Painting, 1967

Extra Info: bands of color create a temporal sequence of visual movement though the spectrum, by aligning them this way, he produces a tactile effect, despite the absence of modeling. 

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Title: Ocean Park No. 129

Artist: Richard Diebenkorn

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: West Coast Abstraction (Abstract Expressionism), 1984

Extra Info: reminiscent of the open spaces of the American West and the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Despite the evident influence of Matisse and Cubism on 

his vision the strict geometry of the forms is relieved by the drips and the emphasis on the paint texture, which relate his work to Abstract Expressionism

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Title: Black Wall

Artist: Louise Nevelson

Medium: Wood

Origin: America

Date: Abstract Expressionism, 1959

Extra Info: objects become abstract by virtue of their arrangement, further abstracting is the fact that it is monochrome, as a result the variety of shape and line takes precedence over the absence of color

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Title: Black Market

Artist: Robert Rauschenberg

Medium: Canvas, Wood, Metal, and Oil Paints

Origin: America

Date: Pop Art, 1961

Extra Info: The iconography of this combine points to features of American travel, while the technique and media combine collage with assemblage, Rauschenberg is a combo of Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism 

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Title: Campbell's Soup (tomato)

Artist: Andy Warhol

Medium: Screenprints on Paper

Origin: America

Date: Pop Art, 1968

Extra Info: The clear precision of his forms and the absence of any visible reference to paint texture intensify the confrontation with the object represented. Warhol expresses his obsession with mass production and his personal identification with the mechanical, mindless, repetitive qualities of mass consumption  

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Title: Torpedo...Los!

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Pop Art, 1963

Extra Info: the impression of violence is enhanced by the close-up of the figure's open mouth and scarred check. The absence of shading and the clear outlined forms replicate the character of comic-book imagery

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Title: Thirteen Books

Artist: Wayne Thiebaud

Medium: Oil on Panel

Origin: America

Date: Pop Art, 1992

Extra Info: The titles are blurred and unreadable, thereby suggesting the hidden, secret content of the proverbial "closed book"

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Title: Clothespin

Artist: Claes Oldenburg

Medium: Cor-Ten and Stainless Steel

Origin: America

Date: Pop Art Sculpture, 1976

Extra Info: manages to arouse tactile response by association with actual clothespins, reflects his talent for conveying paradox and metaphor

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Title: Aubade (Dawn)

Artist: Bridget Riley

Medium: Acrylic on Linen

Origin: America

Date: Op Art, 1975

Extra Info: the changing width of each line, combined with the changing hues, makes her picture plane pulsate with movement

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Title: Untitled

Artist: Donald Judd

Medium: Green Lacquer on Galvanized Iron

Origin: America

Date: Minimalism, 1967

Extra Info: the shadows emphasize the vertical character of the boxes by linking them visually and creating an impression of a nonstructural pilaster

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Title: Untitled #9

Artist: Agnes Martin

Medium: Synthetic Polymer and Graphite on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Minimalism, 1990

Extra Info: The all-over grid has been replaced by gray horizontal bands that potentially extend beyond the confines of the frame. Their geometry and the fact that the grays lighten as they rise present and image that combines the structure of architecture with the changing, cyclical quality of nature

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Title: Wall Drawing No. 681

Artist: Sol LeWitt

Medium: Color Ink Washes (Wall Installation)

Origin: America

Date: Conceptualism, 1993

Extra Info: Enormous aesthetic appeal despite the artist's insistence that the concept take precedence of the final product 

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Title: Coyote, I Like America and American Likes Me

Artist: Joseph Beuys

Medium: Action Sculpture

Origin: America

Date: 1974

Extra Info: when he moved the coyote moved and vice versa

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Title: Self-Portrait

Artist: Chuck Close

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Origin: America

Date: Return to Realism, 1997

Extra Info: painted by grid squares

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Title: The Cowboy

Artist: Duane Hanson

Medium: Polyester Resin Polychromed in Oil

Origin: America

Date: Return to Realism, 1995

Extra Info: in contrapposto, has a cowboy appearance clothing wise but the five o'clock shadow and chest hair contribute to the illusion that he is also a specific individual

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Title: The Singing Sculpture

Artist: Gilbert and George

Medium: Performance, actual people

Origin: America

Date: 1971

Extra Info: mimed in slow motion to a recording of an old English music-hall song while standing on a low platform

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Title: Spiral Jetty

Artist: Robert Smithson

Medium: Mud, Precipitated Crystals, Rocks, and Water

Origin: America

Date: Environmental Art, 1970

Extra Info: combo of minimalism and abstract expressionism 

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Title: Icicles

Artist: Andy Goldsworthy

Medium: Ice/Snow

Origin: Scotland

Date: Environmental Art, 1987

Extra Info: Starlike burst of icicles radiating from a central point and balanced on natural rock

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Title: The Gates

Artist: Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Medium: Poles and Cloths

Origin: America

Date: Environmental Art, 1979-2005

Extra Info: two week project for central park, at first was shot down as an idea

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Title: Carbon/Oxygen

Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Medium: Acrylic, Oilstick, and Silkscreen on Canvas

Origin: Art is in Switzerland

Date: Urban Environment, 1984

Extra Info: Conveys the frenetic pace and mortal dangers of the city

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Title: Self-Portrait

Artist: Robert Mapplethorpe

Medium: Unique Gelatin Silver Print

Origin: America

Date: Environmental Art, 1980

Extra Info: reveals Mapplethorpe's homosexual identity

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Title: Untitled

Artist: Jenny Holzer

Medium: Extended Helical Tricolor LED Display Board

Origin: America

Date: Installations, 1989-90

Extra Info: 105 minutes and consisting of some 330 verbal messages conveyed through vivid colored lights

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Title: Cremaster 4: The Loughton Candidate

Artist: Matthew Barney

Medium: Color Photograph in Cast Plastic Frame

Origin: America

Date: Installation, 1994

Extra Info: attacks our narcissism by challenging Classical idealization and threatens our sense of being human

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Title: The Dinner Party

Artist: Judy Chicago

Medium: Mixed Media

Origin: America

Date: Feminist Art, 1974-79

Extra Info: triangular feminist version of Leonardo's Last Supper with strong diagonals that are reminiscent of Tintoretto's Last Supper

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Title: Mary Magdalene

Artist: Kiki Smith

Medium: Cast Silicon Bronze and Forged Steel

Origin: America

Date: Feminist Art, 1994

Extra Info: The figure represents the penitent Magdalene, whose long hair, combined with the ankle chain, endow the figure with a subhuman quality

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Title: Slavery! Slavery!

Artist: Kara Walker

Medium: Cut Paper and Adhesive on Wall

Origin: America

Date: Race and Gender, 1997

Extra Info: In the Western iconographic tradition, the skull is a vanitas symbol and the monkey represents the artist as the "ape of nature"

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Title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Artist: Maya Lin

Medium: Photograph

Origin: America

Date: Plus Ca Change, 1981-83

Extra Info: 58,183 name are inscribed in the order of their deaths. Viewers become engaged in reading the names as the reflective nature of the wall mirrors the world of the living

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Title: Untitled

Artist: Cindy Sherman

Medium: Color Photograph

Origin: America

Date: Plus Ca Change, 1989

Extra Info: satire on Renaissance inspiration, attaches false breasts and shows herself as pregnant

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Title: The Crossing, fire still

Artist: Bill Viola

Medium: Video/Sound Installation

Origin: America

Date: Video Art, 1996

Extra Info: a votive candle at the man's feet becomes a raging fire

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Title: The Crossing, water still

Artist: Bill Viola

Medium: Video/Sound Installation

Origin: America

Date: Video Art, 1996

Extra Info: At first a few drops of water fall on the man, but then they become a flood and, accompanied by a roar, engulf him