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The Scream - Edvard Munch
Oil, tempera, pastel, and crayon on cardboard – Expressionist Style - National Gallery and Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway – This iconic artwork symbolizes human anxiety. The blurred reality created through its style and its feeling of hopelessness reflect the Postmodern era – This work continues to influence Postmodern artists -
The Treachery of Images - Rene Magritte
Oil on Canvas – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA – Surrealist style- Beneath the painted image of the pipe is the text “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” The translation from French is “This is not a pipe.” Magritte’s commercial artist background shows in his works. Surrealism attempted to join fantasy and dreams to everyday life. This painting influenced future postmodern art. -
No. 5 - Jackson Pollock
Oil on fiberboard – Private Collection, New York – Abstract Expressionism Style – The deliberate lack of message within Pollock’s works are characteristic of Postmodernism’s rejection of Modernism -
Drowning Girl - Ray Lichtenstein
oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas -
Museum of Modern Art, New York City -
Comic Book Style Pop Art-
Features a thought bubble that reads - "I Don't Care! I'd Rather Sink — Than Call Brad For Help!"-
Work is inspired by a DC Comics panel and Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa -
Cut Piece - Yoko Ono
performed at Yamaichi Concert Hall, Kyoto, Japan - Ono's performance featured her sitting on a stage and inviting the audience to approach her and cut away her clothing. It placed spectators in the position of participating in an aggressive act of unveiling a female body. It further demonstrated why viewing by the spectator should be done responsibly as it could destroy or harm the object being viewed -
One and Three Chairs - Joseph Kosuth
Wood folding chair, mounted photograph of a chair, and mounted photo enlargement of the dictionary definition of “chair” – Online collection Museum of Modern Art, Manhattan, New York City, NY – Kosuth challenges spectators to think about meaning and how it is made. Utilizes Plato’s philosophy and connections between objects, visuals and signs and signifiers. Spectators can consider what is real and if the definition is missing would they know what a chair truly is. -
The Dinner Party - Judy Chicago
Ceramic, porcelain, textile – 576 X 576 in. – 1974-1979 - Brooklyn Museum, New York City, NY – Permanent display in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art – This work features a triangular table set for a banquet w/39 place settings, each commemorates women from history starting with Primordial Goddess and moves chronologically through history and ends with Georgia O’Keeffe. 999 additional women's names are inscribed on the tile floor below -
Untitled Film Still #21 - Cindy Sherman
photograph - Sherman's Film Stills series is made up of over 70 black and white photos taken between 1977 and 1980 - This series is fiction about a fictional actress and film - It is a look at how femininity is seen through a cinematic lens -
You Are Not Yourself - Barbara Kruger
Photograph – Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. - Appropriation Art – Mirror shattered by a bullet with a woman examining herself which reads “You are not yourself” – This work can be seen as a reflection of women in society being fragmented by being held to unrealistic standards and having to adopt multiple conflicting roles – Kruger’s work is often discussed as there are often many meanings and interpretations as they often feature genderless pronouns -
Homage a Levi Strauss - Cinzia Ruggeri
Dress – Postmodern Style – Dress features a stepped ziggurat along the skirt and collar – The artist says the ziggurat is a personal symbol as well as a common motif in post-modern architecture and 1980s design -
Queen Elizabeth II 336 - Andy Warhol
Screen print on Lenox Museum Board - Work based on a photograph taken in 1977 for Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee - Part of Warhol's Reigning Queens series (Other Queens in the series are
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and Queen Ntombi Twala of Swaziland.) -
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - Damien Hirst
Tiger shark, glass, steel and 5% formaldehyde solution – 84 X 204 X 84 in – Roberta Smith wrote in The NY Times described it as “the shark is simultaneously life and death incarnate in a way you don’t quite grasp until you see it, suspended and silent, in its tank. It gives the innately demonic urge to live a demonic, deathlike form” (2007). Since its creation, the shark was replaced due to deterioration which has caused debate about if the artwork is still the same or a new work. -
Tulips - Jeff Koons
Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating – 80 x 180 x 205 inches – This is one of 5 unique versions – Celebration Series (1995-2004) – This series focused on generic, mass-produced objects associated with festive events – The sculptures from this series are minimalist yet colorful -
Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 - Tracy Ermin
Tent w/applique – Also known as “The Tent” - Featured the names of 102 people she had slept with from 1963-1995 including family friends, lovers and two fetuses – The tent’s floor featured the text “With myself, always myself, never forgetting” – This work was destroyed in 2004 during a fire at a warehouse owned by the buyer of the work – The remains were used by artists Uri Geller and Stuart Semple and repackaged in 8 plastic boxes and titled “Burn Baby Burn” (2004). -
Maman - Louise Bourgeois
Stainless Steel, Bonze, Marble – 927 x 891 X 1024 cm – National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada – The sculpture features a sac containing 32 marble eggs – The sculpture alludes to the strength of the artist’s mother as her mother was a weaver and spiders are “helpful and protective, just like my mother” (2008) – The balance of the work upon slender legs reflects vulnerability -
Jerusalem - Banksy
Mixed Media Sculpture - Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, United Kingdom - Banksy used a wood sculpture of Jerusalem created in 2002 made by Tawfiq Bishara Salsaa and added watchtowers, tanks, soldiers and an anarchist -
The Fashions of China Tracy 01 - Cao Fei
C-print – 30 X 50 cm – RMB City Opera Series – Cao Fei constructed RMB City as a fictional Chinese city within the online game Second Life (2009-2011). The project attracted Second Life users to events within the game including mayoral inaugurations, contests, and artist projects. Cao Fei did numerous videos and installations based on RMB City. This experimental artwork featured avant-garde urban planning. The art project highlighted the relationship between the real world and the virtual. -
Tabula Rasa (For My Father) - Imants Tillers
Acrylic, gouache on 288 canvas boards – 120 X 336 in – Disaspora Series - This work features personal, artistic and historical references of the artist. The main image is taken from “Karratha Landscape” (1981), a painting by Fred Williams and other imagery is taken from “Monaro” (1989), by artist Rosalie Gascoigne. The work maps his father’s travels across Australia and the artist reflects on what his father must have thought about the landscape -
Resonating Forest - Shieseido Forest Valley
Immersive Art – Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore - Designed by architect Moshe Safdie – Installation blurs boundaries between art and people – features gardens, attractions, retail and dining spaces, a hotel & airport – Luminous forest of trees that are autonomous and pulse in shifting colors as visitors pass by causing light to transmit between trees. Color tones change pitch according to where the tree is at in elevation on the trail. The goal is to enhance awareness of the presence of others. -
Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled With The Brilliance of Life - Yakoi Kasuma
On Exhibit Spring 2021 - Spring 2022 – The Tate Modern, London, England – A mini universe that features hundreds of small, round LED lights that flash on and off in different color combinations which give the illusion of infinity – Yakoi Kasuma began producing infinity rooms in 1965 and has produced more than twenty since then – This experimental work focuses on virtual spaces