All the identifiers for images in Unit 4. From the Course Description Order. Images 99-152
Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow
Date of creation: 1930
Artist: Piet Mondrian
Original Location: Paris, France
Movement: DeSTIJL
Media/Materials: Oil on Canvas
Function: Promote the use of abstraction for the expression of modern life137.
The Results of the First Five-Year Plan
Date of creation: 1932
Artist: Varbara Stepnova
Original Location: Russia
Movement: Constructivism
Media/Materials: Collection Sepia Photographs
Function: Propaganda
Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)
Date of creation: 1936
Artist: Meret Oppenheim
Original Location: Paris, France
Movement: Surralism
Media/Materials: Gazelle fur covered cup, saucer, and spoon
Function: Ask the question “What is a surrealist object?”
Falling Water
Date of creation: 1936-1939
Artist: Frank Lloyd Wright
Original Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Movement: Prairie Style
Media/Materials: Reinforced concrete, sandstone, steel, and glass
Function: Family weekend home until 1963
The Two Fridas
Date of creation: 1939
Artist: Frida Kahlo
Original Location: Mexico
Movement: Surrealism
Media/Materials: Oil on Canvas
Function: Depict a double self-portrait with exposed hearts
The Migration of the Negro Panel No. 49
Date of creation: 1940-1941
Artist: Jacob Lawrence
Original Location: Washington D.C.
Movement: Harlem Renaissance
Media/Materials: Tempera on Hardboard
Function: Show the reality of segregation in the North
The Jungle
Date of creation: 1943
Artist: Wilfredo Lam
Original Location: Cuba
Movement: Surrealism
Media/Materials: Gouache on paper mounted on paper
Function: Convey the haunting consequences of slavery and colonialism.
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park
Date of creation: 1947-1948
Artist: Diego Rivera
Original Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Movement: Surrealism
Media/Materials: Fresco
Function: Recount the history of Mexico
The Fountain
Date of creation: 1950, originally made in 1917
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Original Location: New York City
Movement: Dadaism
Media/Materials: Ready-made glazed sanitary china with black paint
Function: Made to be displayed upside down in order to be presented as “Art.” Question what “Art” is.
Woman I
Date of creation: 1950-1952
Artist: Willem de Kooing
Original Location: Holland, Netherlands
Movement: Expressionism
Media/Materials: Oil on canvas
Function: Reject traditional representation of women