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ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
Man Pointing
Postwar Expressionism in Europe
Bronze
Existentialist - alienated, solitary, lost |
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JACKSON POLLOCK
Number 1 (Lavender Mist)
Abstract Expressionism
Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas
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WILLEM DE KOONING
Woman I
Abstract Expressionism
Oil on canvas
Gestural abstraction |
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MARK ROTHKO
No. 14
Abstract Expressionism
Oil on canvas
Chromatic abstractionist |
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ELLSWORTH KELLY
Red Blue Green
Post-Painterly Abstraction
Oil on canvas
Hard-edge painting |
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FRANK STELLA
Mas o Menos
Post-Painterly Abstraction
Metallic powder in acrylic emulsion on canvas |
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MAYA YING LIN
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Washington DC
Modernism
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LOUISE NEVELSON
Tropical Garden II
Wood painted black |
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RICHARD HAMILTON
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
Pop Art
Collage
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JASPER JOHNS
Flag
Pop Art
Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood
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ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Hopeless
Pop Art
Oil on canvas
benday dots |
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ANDY WARHOL
Marilyn Diptych
Pop art
Oil, acrylic, and silkscreen enamel on canvas
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AUDREY FLACK
Marilyn
Superrealism
Oil over acrylic on canvas
Photorealist stil life |
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CHUCK CLOSE
Big Self-Portrait
Acrylic on canvas
Superrealism
Translate photographic information into painted information |
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JUDY CHICAGO
The Dinner Party
Feminist Art
Multimedia: ceramics/stichery
Honors 39 women. Triangle = women |
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BARBARA KRUGER
Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face
Feminist Art
Photograph, red painted frame
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JEFF KOONS
Pink Panther
Porcelain
Social/Political Art |
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MARK TANSEY
A Short History of Modernist Painting
Oil on canvas, 3 panels
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
Reinforced concrete snail shell |
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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE and PHILIP JOHNSON
Seagram Building, NY
modernist skyscraper w/bronze/glass skin w/ concrete/steel frame |
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ROBERT SMITHSON
Spiral Jetty
Great Salt Lake, Utah
Black basalt, limestone, and earth |
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RICHARD SERRA
Titled Arc
Jacob K Javits Federal Plaza, NYC
Minimalist |
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CHRISTO/JEANNE-CLAUDE
Surrounded Islands
Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida
11 small islands surrounded by 6.5 mill sq feet of pink fabric |
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