3. Kasimir Malevich Black Circle 1913 oil on canvas 41 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.

4. Kasimir Malevich Black Square 1913 oil on canvas 41 3/4 x 41 7/8 in.

5. Kasimir Malevich Black Square and Red Square 1915 oil on canvas 28 x 17 1/2 in.

6.  Portrait of Tristan Tzara  1916  Geneva, Switzerland  Artist: Hans Arp  Dadaism – so called for da da (yes yes) a child’s nonsense word or first word in German, was an attempt to rebel against the war and violence with art  A combination of random shapes and colors make up this work in a world that makes no sense – so should its art make no sense  This is a portrait of the artist’s friend Tzara a poet

7.  Fountain  1917  New York  Artist: Marcel Duchamp  Claimed Dada was French for rocking horse to further confuse the meaning of the movement  Saw it as anti-art  Claimed what mattered most about art was who made it not its aesthetic qualities

8.  L.H.O.O.Q.  1917  New York  Artist: Duchamp  When the letters are pronounced in French they form a pun that means this woman has a hot ass  He used puns to further undermine the stability of meaning in art

9. Duchamp, In Advance of a Broken Arm, 1915

10. Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel 1913 assemblage 23 3/4 in. high

11. Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) 1915-23 oil, lead wire, foil, dust, varnish, glass 8 ft. 11 in. x 5 ft. 7 in.

12. Man Ray Gift 1921 flatiron with nails 6 1/2 in. high

13.  Painting  1933  Paris, France  Artist: Joan Miro  Seems inhabited by abstract creatures in constant motion  Claimed he painted entirely from hallucinations  Automatism – drawing liberated from planning

14.  Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird  1926  Paris, France  Artist: Joan Miro  “Biomorphic Abstraction”  Art taken from the dream world and the subconscious

16. Giorgio De Chirico The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street 1914 oil on canvas 34 1/4 x 28 1/4 in.

18. Giorgio De Chirico The Great Metaphysician 1917 oil on canvas 41 1/8 x 27 1/2 in.

19.  The Persistence of Memory  1931  Paris, France  Dali was a Spanish born painter  The melted watches represent that time is relative and not fixed  Many of his paintings depict the impossible and the dreamlike

20. Salvador Dali Anthropomorphic Bread 1932 oil on canvas 24 x 32 cm

22. Dali, Soft Construction w Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936

23. Dali, Apparition of a Face and a Fruit Dish on a Beach, 1948

24. Dali, Hallucinogenic Toreador, 1969-70

25. Dali, Corpus Hypercubicus (Crucifixion), 1954

26. Dali, Sacrament of the Last Supper, 1955

27. Salvador Dali The Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937 oil on canvas 51.2 x 78.5 cm

28. Salvador Dali Young Virgin Autosodomized by Her Own Chastity 1954 oil on canvas

29. Max Ernst The Robing of the Bride 1940 oil on canvas 129.6 x 96.3 cm

30. René Magritte The False Mirror 1928 oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 21 7/8 in.

34. René Magritte The Treachery of Images 1928-29 oil on canvas 23 1/4 x 31 1/2 in.

35. Meret Oppenheim Object 1936 fur-Covered cup, saucer and spoon 2 7/8 in. high

36.  Composition in Red, Yellow, and Blue  1920  Paris, France  Artist: Piet Mondrian  Dutch by birth  De Stijl means the style in Dutch – the movement championed pure abstraction  Mondrian took cubism to its extreme and just painted abstract shapes and primary colors

37. Piet Mondrian Broadway Boogie Woogie 1943 oil on canvas 50 x 50 in.

38.  Bird in Space  1928  Paris, France  Artist: Constantin Brancusi  Romanian born  Brancusi favored simple forms and shapes in his sculptures  It does not depict a bird but rather the flight of a bird

39.  Three Forms  1935  London, England  Artist: Barbara Hepworth  Created shortly after the birth of her own triplets – the egg shaped forms perhaps represent this event  Egg-like in shape and smooth

41.  Reclining Figure  1939  London, England  Artist: Henry Moore  In a classical reclining pose similar to the Parthenon sculptures  His admiration for Stonehenge and weathered prehistoric art can be readily seen here  He attempted to obtain that same weather & time worn look

42.  Triple Gong  1951  Paris, France  Artist: Alexander Calder  American born  Invented the mobile  Art that was responsive to the environment; some of the shapes did not move intentionally as a contrast

43.  Kouros  1944 – 1945  Poston, Arizona  Artist: Isamu Noguchi  Sculpted while in an interment camp in Arizona  Used flat slabs of marble because they were inexpensive  Kouros is Greek for boy  Carved and constructed so it uses two opposing techniques; viewed from different angles changes how it appears  Demands that the viewer moves to see it all

44.  Winter, Fifth Avenue  1893  New York  Artist: Alfred Stieglitz  Leading photographer of his day  Taken during a winter storm – shows nature’s ability to overcome progress  Hw introduced European modernism to America through his studio in NY  He purchased the 1 st Picasso in America

45.  Yellow Calla  1929  New York  Artist: Georgia O’Keefe  O’Keefe painted flowers close up and animal bones  She emphasized the abstract forms and patterns of a flower close up  Many art critics say that O’Keefe’s work has many sexual symbols in it – she denied this completely

46. Georgia O’Keeffe Music—Pink and Blue, II 1919 oil on canvas 35 1/2 x 29 in.

50. Georgia O’Keeffe Jack in the Pulpit IV 1930 oil on canvas

53.  Aucassin and Nicolette  1921  Lancaster, Pennsylvania  Artist: Charles Demuth  Took architectural landscape of American cities and turned them into basic shapes similar to Picasso’s cubism  The title actually refers to famous medieval lovers

54.  Guernica  1937  Paris, France  Artist: Picasso  Painted on a 11 x 25 foot canvas to commemorate the massacre of the city of Guernica by German supported air force and Franco  The city burned for 3 days – and thousands were killed  Picasso captures the chaos in this work  It was returned to Spain in 1981 on Picasso’s wish that when Spain returned to democracy it could regain the painting

55.  Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California  1936  Nipomo, California  Artist: Dorothea Lange  Lange included only 3 of this woman’s 10 children to not cause widespread anger and resentment towards the upper classes  Part of a project by FDR to show that American farmers needed help and the FSA (Farm Security Administration) to give them aid  These photos are propaganda in style not just social conscience

56. Imogen Cunningham Frida Kahlo Rivera-1931 1929 gelatin-silver print

57. Imogen Cunningham Triangles 1923 gelatin-silver print

58. Ansel Adams Monolith, the Face of Half Dome 1926 gelatin-silver print

59. Ansel Adams Frozen Lakes and Cliffs, The Sierra Nevada, Sequoia National Park, California 1932 gelatin-silver print

60. Man Ray Larmes (Tears) 1932-33 gelatin-silver print

61. Man Ray Prayer 1930 gelatin-silver print

62. Man Ray Minotaur 1934 gelatin-silver print

63.  At the Time of the Louisville Flood  1937  Louisville, Kentucky  Artist: Margaret Bourke- White  Captured moments like these during the great depression  Irony is key here as people in soup line form behind government propaganda sign

65.  Unique Forms of Continuity in Space  1913  Rome, Italy  Umberto Boccioni  Called for the destruction of museums and all existing art forms  Ironic his works are exhibited in many museums  “An image of speed”

66. Giacomo Balla Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash 1912 oil on canvas 2 ft. 11 3/8 in. x 3 ft. 7 1/4 in.

67.  Nighthawks  1942  Chicago, Illinois  Artist: Edward Hopper  Captures the solitude and loneliness of the American city after hours  Documented middle class American scenes is a realistic rather than abstract manner  Regionalism was a reaction against abstraction – American painters felt that abstract was a European movement and did not represent America properly

68.  Missouri Mural (section)  1936  Jefferson City, Missouri  Artist: Thomas Hart Benton  Inspired by Mexican muralists  Project to decorate public buildings in USA was funded by the Works Progress Administration of FDR  The radically anti-European Benton claimed art for American themes  Every aspect of Missouri life was depicted in this mural

69.  They Also Found Discrimination  1940 – 1941  Washington, DC  Artist: Jacob Lawrence  From his series of woodcuts titled “The Migration of the Negro”  Shows blacks with no face and divided from whites who sit leisurely  Even up north African- Americans faced discrimination – it was not purely a southern phenomenon as depicted here

70.  Beat the Whites wit h the Red Wedge  1919  St Petersburg, Russia  Artist: El Lissitzky  Abstract art was seen as art for the masses; and as such was used by the artist as a tool for propaganda and information

71.  Detroit Industry  1932 – 1933  Detroit, Michigan  Artist: Diego Rivera  Mexican born Rivera had tremendous influence on the murals of Benton  Expose of worker’s plight and a plea for social reform

72.  Cocoa-Pod-Shaped Coffin  1970s  Ghana  Artist: Kane Kwei  Coffin size and shape  He was an informally trained carpenter who made coffins in unique shapes

73.  Diego and I  1929  Mexico  Artist: Frida Kahlo  Reveals the pain of her all powerful and all-seeing husband who is always on her mind

74. Frida Kahlo The Broken Column 1944 oil on canvas

77.  The Jungle  1943  Havana, Cuba  Artist: Wilfredo Lam  He studied in Paris where we can see Picasso had a great influence on him  It is a record of his reaction to being placed in a prison camp in Martinique by the Nazis  Density is focus and African masks

78.  Mona Lisa at the Age of Twelve  1959  Colombia  Artist: Fernando Botero  Famous for his bloated figures  Attempt to show the Latin American aristocracy’s gluttony and their ability to consume the land and its people

82.  Autumn Rhythm: Number 30  1950  New York  Artist: Jackson Pollock  “Drip Paintings”  Unrolled canvas on floor and dripped, threw and splattered paint on it – he claimed he knew what he was trying to achieve before starting the painting although they appear accidental

83. Action Jackson

84.  Excavation  1950  New York  Artist: Willem de Kooning  Dutch born immigrant  Human figures can be barely seen to arise throughout the painting  The red white and blue splotch in the middle suggests an American flag

85.  Woman I  1950  New York, NY  Artist: Willem de Kooning  Large brush strokes with clumps of paint  Here is his favorite theme of the earth mother/fertility goddess

86.  Red, Brown, and Black  1958  New York  Artist: Mark Rothko  Russian immigrant to America  His art contained only flat color fields and an absence of recognizable subjects  Made shapes fuzzy without clear lines  Believed these works allowed viewers to experience their feelings

87.  Mauve District  1966  New York  Artist: Helen Frankenthaler  Worked on raw canvas, no glue or white background  Some areas were even left unpainted intentionally

88. Yves Klein Anthropometry 1960 pigment in synthetic resin on paper on canvas 145 x 248 cm

89. Yves Klein Anthropometry Performance Galerie Internationale d’Art Contemporain Paris, France March 9, 1960

90. Yves Klein Untitled Fire Painting 1961 charred pasteboard on wood 50 x 38 cm