Art History

Great Pyramids

2500 BCE

Gizeh, Egypt.
Oriented to the sun, these are the pharaoh's tombs, who were believed to be the sons of the sun god Re.

Stone Henge

2000 BCE

Wiltshire, England.
It is likely that the stone arrangement marks the midsummer solstice, needed for planting cycles.

Snake Goddess

1600 BCE

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.

Mask of Agememnon

1500 BCE

1550-1500 BCE
This is considered the Mona Lisa of pre-history.

Innermost Coffin of Tutankhamen

1325 BCE

Thebes, Egypt.
Unlike many of the pharaoh's tombs, this one was only partly plundere, leaving a vast amount of funerary treasure.

Tutankhamun's Mask

1323 BCE

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.

Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple

520 BCE

Eturia, Italy. From a cemetery near Cerveteri. Museo Nationale di Villa Giulia, Rome.

Parthenon

431 BCE

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.

Grave Stele of Hegoso

400 BCE

Athens, Greece. From the Dipylon cemetery. National Archeological Museum, Athens.
This stele depicts the deceased woman with a servant bringing her jewelry.

The Marathon Boy

330 BCE

Bronze. 51" high.
Greek, Hellenistic period.
Athens

Soldiers from Pit 1

206 BCE

Shanxi, China.
This terra-cotta army is only part of the funerary complex built for the First Emperor of China.

Pyramid of the Sun

150

Teotihuacan, Mexico.

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

175

Rome. Bronze, 11'6" tall. Located in Musei Capitolini, Rome

Unswept House, Unswept Floor

190

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.

Wood Block Printing

220

China.
One of the earliest forms of printing. It involved cutting into a wooden block, inking it up, and stamping it down.

Viking Ship

800

Norway.
This ship burial was the tomb of a high-ranking princess.

Bi Sheng

990

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.

Shiva as Nataraj, or Lord of the Dance

1000

Naltunai Isvaram Temple, Punjai, India

Kandarya Mahadeva Temple

1030

Khajuraho, India.
This is one of the thirty temples on this site. It is dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu, or Mahavira.

Codex Gigas

1100

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.

Lotus Flowers and Ducks

1250

China, 13th century. Hanging scroll. Paint on silk, 50.4" x 30.7"
Located at Museum fuer Ostasiatiche Kunst, Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Berlin

Madonna Ruccelai

1285

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.

Life Cast of His Face

1321

Dante Alighieri
This was made after Dante died of malaria.

Ognissanti Madonna

1327

Giotto. 1314-1327
This has more realistic volume, but it still doesn't look quite right. However, the perspective is improving.

Zen Stone Garden

1333

Japan, 1192-1333. Kamakura period.
Location: Daitokuji Temple, Kyoto

Detail of the Effects of Good Government

1338

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

Jikji

1377

Korea. Movable Metal Type.
Jikji was the first use of movable metal type. However, the full text is no longer available.

Tacuinum Sanitatis

1400

This was a cookbook about how once can achieve good health. It included information on farming, diets, agriculture, and the like.

Madonna and Child

1400

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.

Holy Trinity

1425

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.

The Expulsion From Paradise

1427

Masaccio.

Arnolfini Wedding

1434

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.

Lucca Madonna

1436

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.

Johannes Gutenberg's Printing Press

1440

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.

Gutenberg Bible

1454

Between 158-180 copies printed.
42 Line Bible
Printed in a black-letter type.

Playing Chess With Death

1470

Albertus Pictor. 1470s.
Sweden

The Birth of Venus

1482

Sandro Botticelli. Italy. Tempera on canvas, approx. 5'8" x 9'1".
Located at Galleria degali Uffizi, Florence

Danse Macabre (Dance of Death)

1490

Janez iz Kastva.

The Four Horsemen

1498

Albrecht Dürer. Woodblock print.

Madonna of the Meadow

1505

Raphael. Italy. Panel Painting.

Mona Lisa

1506

Leonardo Da Vinci.
1503-1506
displayed behind bulletproof glass

Bidding Farewell at the Tiger Hill

1509

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.

Madonna of Loreto

1510

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.

School of Athens

1511

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

The Libyan Sibyl

1512

Michelangelo. 1508-1512.

Pesaro Madonna

1526

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.

Adam and Eve

1526

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.

Venus of Urbino

1538

Titian.
Completed for the Duke of Urbino Guidobaldo.
The painting represents the allegory of marriage.

Recumbent Female Nude Figure Asleep

1540

Rosso Fiorentino. 1530-1540Located at the British Museum, London.
The use of shading in this piece mimics light washing over the human form.

Le Transi de René de Chalon

1547

Ligier Richier.

Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed

1561

Moscow, 1555-1561.
Originally, the purpose was to glorify the Russian Orthodox church and the power of the Czar.

Vegetables in a Bowl or the Gardner

1563

Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Used a process of combining objects to make them look like something else--this is called object oriented abstraction.

David

1564

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.

The Peasant Wedding

1567

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.

The Triumph of Death

1582

Pieter Bruegel The Elder
Shows the totality of death, that everyone must eventually die.

Pietà

1599

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.

Scribe and Painter at Work

1600

Jaganath.
From The Garden of Truth
15599-1600

Still Life With Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber

1603

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.

Still life With Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market

1614

Frans Snyders.
Once again, a contrast between good and evil is shown.
There was also a strategic placement of items here.

Judith Slaying Holofernes

1620

Artemisia Gentileschi. 1614-20
Artemisia was raped and sexually assaulted repeatedly, this painting could be interpreted as a form of revenge and empowerment.

Venus and Adonis

1630

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.

Masjid-Shah, or Royal Mosque

1637

Isfahan, Iran

A Table of Desserts

1640

Jan Davidsz de Heem.

Taj Mahal

1654

Agra, India.
This famous Islamic shrine is a memorial to the wife of a great Shah.

The Milkmaid

1658

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.

Self Portrait, 1660

1660

Rembrandt
Reflects an interior state of being.

Self Portrait, 1661

1661

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

The Dissolute Household

1664

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.

Palace of Versailles

1710

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.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

1749

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.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

1750

Thomas Gainsborough. Oil on canvas.
National Gallery, London

Ancient Rome

1757

Giovanni Paolo Panini.
Oil on canvas.

Library

1785

Etienne-Louis Boullée.
Architecture that expresses a purpose. Emphasis on clean lines and vanishing points.

Michel Eugène Chevreul

1786

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.

Louis Daguerre

1787

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"

A Pair of Lovers

1788

Kitagawa Utamaro.
depicts lovers engaged in sex.

The Death of Maret

1793

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.

Henry Fox Talbot

1800

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"

House of Death

1805

William Blake, 1795-1805.
This was devoted to John Milton.

La Grand Odalisque

1814

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.

The Raft of the Medusa

1819

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.

Napolean Bonaparte

1821

This was a life-cast of Bonaparte's face, made after he died from stomach cancer.

The First Known Photograph: View from the Window at Le Gras

1826

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.

Boulevard du Temple

1838

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!

Shoki the Demon Queller

1853

Utagawa Kunisada. 1849-1853

Valley of the Shadow of Death

1855

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.

Olympia

1856

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.

Ferdinand DeSaussure

1857

1857-1913
Signifier and Signified

Le Déjeuner sur I'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass)

1863

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.

The Harvest of Death

1863

Timothy H. O'Sullivan, July 5-6, 1863.

Woman With Parrot

1866

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.

Arrangement in grey and Black NO. 1

1871

James McNeil Whistler
This painting shows his respect for his mother, but also shows that he feared her.

The Gross Clinic

1875

Thomas Eakins.
The surgical theatre. Eakins is the man in the background doing sketches.

L'Inconnue de la Seine

1880

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.

At the Miliner's

1882

Edgar Degas. Pastel on paper.
This piece is primarily concerned with the delicate use of color.

Bar at the Follie Bergere

1882

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.

The Potato Eaters

1885

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.

The Night Café

1888

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.

Portrait of Artist's Mother

1888

Vincent Van Gogh.

Portrait of Mme

1889

Vincent Van Gogh. Oil on canvas

Maternité

1890

Marie Cassatt.
Most of Marie's paintings appear to be very tender.

Rouen Cathedral

1894

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

The Basket of Apples

1895

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.

At the Moulin Rouge

1895

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.

Mother and Child

1897

Mary Cassatt. Pastel on paper, 21" x 17 3/4"
Located at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Two Marquesans

1902

Paul Gauguin, French.

Landscape at Aix, Mount Sainte-Victoire

1905

Paul Cezanne. Oil on canvas, 23 1/2" x 28 1/4"
Located at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

1907

Pablo Picasso. Spain/France. Oil on canvas, 8' x 7'8"
Located at MOMA, New York

Death and the Maiden

1908

Marianne Stokes.
Death as a woman.

Tote Mutter (Dead Mother)

1910

Egon Schiele.
Depicts a newborn baby and a mother who died during childbirth.

Jüngster Tag (Last Judgement)

1912

Wassily Kandinsky. Underglass painting with ink and color

Asger Jorn

1914

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.

The Banquet of the Starved (Comical Repast)

1915

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.

Fountain

1917

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.

Mina Loy

1918

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.

They're Biting

1920

Paul Klee. Drawing on oil paper.
Shows a nice use and understanding of meandering, playful lines.

Marlene

1920

Hannah Höch
Shows images that question gender bias and images that point top being fluid on the gender spectrum.

Monument to the Third International

1920

Vladmir Tatlin. 1919-1920
Never built.

Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany

1920

Hannah Hoch. 1919-1920
Staatliche Museum, Berlin.

Dia de los Muertos

1924

Diego Rivera

Battleship Potemkin

1925

Sergei Eisenstein.
USSR
Odessa Steps

Yellow Calla

1926

Georgia O'Keefe.
Oil on canvas.
Washington, DC

The Treachery of Images

1929

Rene Magritte
"this is not a pipe"--it is not an actual pipe, rather it is a picture of a pipe

The Futurist Cookbook

1930

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

Votivhild (Strangling Angel)

1931

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.

Guy DeBord

1931

1931-1994
Derive: a mode of experimental behavior linked to the conditions of urban society; a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances.

Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

1935

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.

Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)

1936

Meret Oppenheim. Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon.
Located at the MoMA.
Shows the surrealist movement of combinations of strange elements in a piece.

Migrant Mother With Three Children

1936

Dorthea Lange.
She was commissioned by the government to document and symbolize the Great Depression.

The Weeping Woman

1937

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.

From series, Death

1937

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.

Olympia

1938

Leni Riefenstahl
Claimed she had no idea of the Holocaust

The Two Fridas

1939

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.

Nighthawks

1942

Edward Hopper.

Ahola Kachina

1942

Jimmie Kewanwytewa. Hopi, Third Mesa, Oraibi, 1942.

Freedom From Want

1943

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.

Wee Gee

1950

1930s-1950s
New York
Photojournalist
Would often arrive at scene of crime before it even happened.

Tree of Life

1951

Henri Matisse. 1950-1951.
Stained glass.
Chapel of the rosary, Vence, France

Relocate, Destroy

1954

Edgar Heap of Birds
in memory of Native Americans

Notre Dame du Haut

1955

Le Corbusier. Ronchamps, France.
The church's design recalls praying hands, dove wings, and a boat hull, Christian symbols of divine generosity.

PANTONE

1956

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.

Suzy's Sun (for Judy Tyler)

1957

Joseph Cornell.
North Carolina Museum of Art.

International Klein Blue

1959

Yves Klein.
H mixed a color of blue and then claimed ownership of it. This sparked a debate over whether people could own colors.

Blue Veil

1959

Morris Louis. 1958-1959.
Acrylic resin paint on canvas.
a highly praised painting.

Anthropometry of the Blue Period (ANT 82)

1960

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.

First Landing Jump

1961

Robert Rauschenberg.
Mixed media.
MoMA

Campbell's Soup Cans

1962

Andy Warhol.
This piece was created right around the time that capitalism begins to take over.

Pie Counter

1963

Wayne Thiebaud.
Oil on canvas.
Reflection of mass-produced foods.

Electric Chair

1964

Andy Warhol.
Gruesome images of empty room with electric chair.

Jorn's Response to Guggenheim Award

1964

"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"

One and Three Chairs

1965

Joseph Kosuth

St. Louis Arch

1965

Eero Saarinen and associates
St. Louis, Missouri
1963-1965

Marilyn Monroe

1967

Andy Warhol.
Screen prints.
This piece was created just a few years after Marilyn's death.

Seated Woman and Child (Femme as sise et enfant)

1967

Juan Miro
Cast bronze statue

Abra III

1968

Frank Stella. Acrylic on canvas, 10' x 10'

Mirror Image I

1969

Louise Nevelson. Painted wood.
Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.

Fall II

1970

Bas Jan Ader, Los Angeles.
Gets a photo of himself right before he is about to fall.

Crinkly

1970

Alexander Calder. Sheet metal, wire, paint.
Private Collection.

Bent Propeller

1970

Alexander Calder.
Destroyed on September 11, 2001 during the attack on the World Trade Center

Cube and Four Panels

1975

Ronald W. Davis. Acrylic on Canvas.
This shows a great use of perspective and of color.

Interior Scroll

1975

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.

In Search of the Miraculous

1975

Bas Jan Ader.
About nine months after he set sail on the Atlantic Ocean, his boat was found upside down.

TV Buddha

1976

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.

From Silueta Series

1976

Ana Mendieta.
Placed physical representations of her body in nature.

House #3

1976

Francesca Woodman.
Providence, Rhode Island.
Ghostlike image of women in domestic spaces.

Running Fence

1976

Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 1972-76.
Sonoma and Marin counties, California.

Self-Portrait with Model

1979

Duane Hanson.
NOT real people, though they look incredibly realistic.

Witchetty Grub Dreaming

1980

Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi.
Paint on canvas.

S.O.S. (Stratification Object Series)

1982

Hannah Wilke, 1974-82.
Chewing gum sculpted like vaginas, placed on the artists body.

Untitled (Self-Portrait of Marilyn Monroe)

1982

Cindy Sherman.
Suggests that like Marilyn Monroe, Sherman was also playing a socially defined role.

Fertility Series B

1983

Keith Haring.
Silkscreen on Rives paper.
Shows celebratory images of life and fertility.

Guerilla Girls

1985

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.

There is No Escape

1987

Sue Coe.
Britain.
Critique of food industries in contemporary industrial societies.

Portrait (Futago)

1988

Yasumasa Morimura.
Replaced a female body with an Asian male dressed like a female.
A modern remake of Olympia.

Stereo Styles

1988

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.

The Bitter Nest, Part II: The Harlem Renaissance Party

1988

Faith Ringgold.
Acrylic on canvas with printed, dyed, and pieced fabric.
Washington DC.

Untitled (Your body is a battleground)

1989

Barbara Kruger.
shifting attitudes and conflicts that surround women, sexuality, and reproduction in Western culture.

Ignorance=Fear/Silence=Death

1990

Keith Haring, 1958-1990

Riot Grrl

1990

1990s, Zine.
3rd wave feminism, a new era of feminism.

Deep Contact

1990

Lynn Hershman.
interactive computer-video installation

Immediate Family (series)

1991

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.

The Binocular Entrance to the Chiat Building

1991

Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Frank Gehry. 1985-1991
Venice, California.

Untitled: Four Etchings

1992

Glenn Ligon.

Genesis

1993

Juane Quick-To-See-Smith. Oil, collage, mixed media on canvas. 5' x 8'4"
Located at the Museum of Art, Atlanta

Justin Bond

1993

Catherine Opie.
exposing the complexities of gender and sexuality

Spider

1994

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."

New Mothers Series

1994

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.

Rebellious Silence

1994

Shirin Neshat
Faceless Women of Allah Series 1994

Dropping a Han-Dynasty Urn

1995

Ai Wei Wei
Documentary: Never Sorry 2012

Speechless

1996

Shirin Neshat.
Pen and ink over gelatin silver print.

That Profile

1999

Martin Puryear. 1997-1999. Stainless steel, bronze.
Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

99 cent

1999

Andreas Gursky. Cibachrome print.

Judenplatz

2000

Rachel Whiteread.
Holocaust Memorial.
Known for her large scale sculptures.
Concrete cast of the inside of a library--negative space made solid.

Puffy Girl/Screen memory

2000

Yoshitomo Nara. 1992-2000
Felt-tipped pen on postcard.
New York.

Dandelion Line

2000

Andy Goldsworthy,
Strom King Sculpture Park, New York.

Tan Tan Bo

2001

Takashi Murakami. Acrylic on canvas mounted on board, 11'9" x 18'1" (3 panels)

Easy to Remember

2001

Lorna Simpson, Film still

Born

2002

Kiki Smith. Lithograph.
MoMA

Drawing for Transient Rainbow

2003

Cai-Guo-Qiang.
Gunpowder on two sheets of paper.
MoMA, New York.

Self Portrait Nursing

2004

Catherine Opie
Is done in a Madonna and Child portrait style. She has made the body represent sexual identity that is not typically accepted.

Stern

2004

Marlene Dumas.
Face seen in profile lying down.
Enlarged to massive proportions.

The Green Line

2004

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.

One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack

2004

Wangechi Mutu.
Cut-and-pasted printed paper with watercolor, synthetic polymer paint, and pressure-sensitive stickers on transparentized paper.
MoMA, New York

The Matter of Time

2005

Richard Serra. Steel sheet sculptures.
Guggenheim Museum.

The Giant 2

2007

David Altmejd.
You need death for growth.
Known for his large scale installations.

Fountain of Light

2007

Ai Wei Wei

Aqueous

2007

Margaret Lazzari. Acrylic on canvas.
Collection of the artist.

Momma Portrait Series

2008

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.

Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

2010

Mickalene Thomas.
Replacing images of whiteness with poc.

RGB Colorspace Atlas

2011

8" x 8" x 8"
Includes every color imaginable on the RGB scale, and is an extremely dense color print

No Seconds

2012

Henry Hargreaves.
People who were seated on death row were given a last meal--he recreated them and the photographed them.

Today

2012

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.

Girls Own The Void

2013

Audrey Wollen, date unknown.
Sad Girl Theory: the internalized suffering off women should be categorized as an act of protest.

Standing Man

2013

Erdem Gunduz.

Asphalt and Chalk: Michael Brown, Sean bell, Amadou Diallo, Trayvon Martin

2014

Titus Kaphar
Had a desire to memorialize an individual but an inability to do so.

Invisible Presence, Bling Memories

2014

Ebony G. Patterson
Hoping to raise questions about how we react in the art of looking.
Memorial practice in Jamaica.

THE LIVING NEED LIGHT, THE DEAD NEED MUSIC

2014

The Propeller Group
Funeral rituals of South Vietnam.

You Are My Sunshine

2015

Wangchi Mutu.
Almost always focuses on the female form and on empowerment of black people.

Removal of US Confederate Monuments

2017

2017
Starting to question why we use these statues glorifying racism.