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"The Gates"
Christo & Jean Claude
Feb 2005
installation art
NYC Central Park |
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Wrapped Coast
Christo & Jean Claude
installation art
Little Bay |
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Torii Gates
Fushimi Inari
8th century Japan
leads to shrine of rice god (Shinto) |
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The Maid and the Mistress
Jan Vermeer
1665-1670
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Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson
April 1970
Materials: earth, rocks, salt crystals, water & algae
Located in Great Salt Lake in Utah |
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God Bless America
Fath Ringgold
1964
reflects sentimentality towards events of Civil Rights movement |
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World Flag Ant Farm
Yukinory Yanagi
1990
artistic metaphor for globalization |
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Bushfire & Corroboree Dreaming
Erna Motna
1988
typical of Australian Aborigines
aerial diagram explains ritual: women set fire in the bush, drives out animals; women hunt them using tools depicted; larger animals tackled by men using spears |
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The Central Mountain (style)
Wu Chen
Drybrush technique
Yuen dynasty
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The Rocky Mountains
Albert Bierstadt
1863
Bottom scene clearly America, however, mountains are clearly in the Alps (reflects longing of artist for homeland) |
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The Treason of Images
Renee Margaritte
1929
"This is not a pipe"
Enlightenment period |
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The Knight, Death & Devil
Albrecht Durer
1513 |
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Christo and Jean Claude
October 1st
Blue umbrellas in Japan/Yellow in California
3100 total |
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| Focuses on Arabic calligraphy, rather than on figures, because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against Allah. |
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The Marriage of Joivanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami
Jan Van Eyck
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Triumphal Entry
Shahnama
Persia
1562
Page from manuscript
Contains calligraphy called Jawi
Repetitive floral design in background called Arabesque
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The Birth of Buddha
Silk painting
Asian culture |
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The Birth of Buddha
Stone sculpture
Islamic culture |
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