1. Aaron Douglas; Noah’s Ark, ca
Aaron Douglas; Noah’s Ark, ca.1927; Oil on Masonite; Fisk University Galleries, University of Tennessee, Nashville
D: Noah leading the ark as it sails of before disaster strikes the land
A: Incorporation of motifs from African American sculpture and the transparent angular planes characteristic of Synthetic Cubism
I: The storytelling of some type of African American
Struggle
J: Combining of two stories through the depiction of one
Pablo Picasso; Geurnica,1937; Oil on Canvas; Museo Nacional centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
D: A mural sized canvas of immense power
A: The fragmentation of objects and dislocation of anatomical features.
I: An expression of Picasso’s feelings toward the German attack on Guernica
J: High Merit
Piet Mondrian; Composition with reed, blue, and yellow,1930; Oil on Canvas; HCR International ,USA
D: A grid of the primary colors
A: Locked primary colors into a grid of intersecting vertical and horizontal lines. BY altering the grid patterns, he created a dynamic tension.
I:Purity of the primary colors
J: High Merit
Salvador Dali; The Persistence of Memory, 1931; Oil on Canvas; Museum of Modern Art, New York
D: Three decaying watches
A: The image is realistically rendered with a landscape that creates a haunting allegory of empty space
I: Goal was to paint images of irrationality
J:Allegory of empty space where time ends

2. Alexander Calder; Lobster Trap and Fish Tail,1939; Painted sheet and steel wire; Museum of Modern Art, New York
D: A early Calder “mobile”
A: Organic shape resembles those in Joan Miro’s Surrealist paintings.
I: Provided inspirational for the moblies
J: Expressed reality’s innate dynamism
Frida Khalo; The Two Fridas,1939; Oil on Canvas; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
D: Twins holding each other's hands
A: Common Artery suggest different sides of her personality
I: there was more than one personality to Frida
J: High Merit
Andy Warhol; green Coca-Cola Bottles,1962; Oil on Canvas; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
D: A large collection of green coca-cola bottles
A: Selection of a mass production icon in American pop culture and multiplied it, reflecting Coke’s omniprescrence in American Society
I: A passion for classic American Pop Culture
J: High merit due to its modern portrayal
Roy Lichtenstein, Hopelss,1963; Oil on Canvas; Kunstmuseum Basel
D: A young women laying in a puddle of her own tears
A: Immortalization of image on the large canvas
I: Use of the melodramatic scenes common to popular romance comic books of the time
J: Comic books appealed to Lichtenstein because they were a mainstay of American pop culture.

3. Chuck Close; Big Self- Portrait, ; Acrylic on Canvas; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Art Center Acquisition Fund,1969)
D: A self-portrait of a man smoking a cigarette
A: Avoided creative compositions, flattering lighting effects, and revealing facial expressions.
I: Connection to the Photorealist was tenuous
J: Paintings based off of late 1960s and early 1970s on photographs
Frank Lloyd Wright; Kaufmann House(Fallingwater) Bear Run, Pennsylvania;
D: A house designed for weekend retreats perched over a rocky hillside with a waterfall flowing from it.
A: An example of naturalism. Built over a waterfall because he believed the inhabitants would become desensitized to the waterfall’s presence and power if they merely overlooked it.
I: Implied message of Wright’s new architecture was space, not mass.
J: Influential on Europe especially in Holland and Germany
Willem De Kooning; Woman I, ;Oil on Canvas; Museum if Modern Art, New York
D: A definite abstract view off a woman
A: Displays the energetic application of pigment typical of gestural abstraction
I: Abstract view of the woman
J: Nonrepresentational works dominated by huge swaths and splashes of pigment.
Mark Rothko; No. 14,1960; Oil on Canvas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
D: Large rectangles of pure color with hazy , brushed edges that seem to float on the canvas surface
A: Chromatic abstractionist paintings-consisting of hay rectangles hovering in front of a color background- are compositionally simple but compelling visual experiences
I: Simple artworks are the most complex
J: High Merit