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All the identifiers for images in Unit 4. From the Course Description Order. Images 99-152
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Date of creation: 1907
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Original Location: Montmartre, Paris
Movement: Cubism
Media/Materials: Oil on Canvas
Function: Depict a brothel to break conventional standards
The Steerage
Date of creation: 1907, printed 1913
Artist: Alfred Stieglitz
Original Location: The Kaiser Wilhelm II
Movement: Photocessesion
Media/Materials: Graflex camera
Function: Depict immigrants who were rejected at Ellis Island
The Kiss [Painting]
Date of creation: 1907-1908
Artist: Gustav Klimt
Original Location: Vienna, Austria
Movement: Art Nouveau
Media/Materials: Oil on Canvas and Gold Leaf
Function: Depict the love between a man and woman
The Kiss [Sculpture]
Date of creation: 1907-1908
Artist: Constantin Brancusi
Original Location: Paris, France
Movement: Cubism
Media/Materials: Limestone
Function: Symbolic interpretation of a male and female body merging into one, UNITY
The Portuguese
Date of creation: 1911
Artist: Georges Braque
Original Location: N/A
Movement: Analytical Cubism
Media/Materials: Oil on Canvas
Function: Establish a new, non-naturalistic form of analytical cubism
The Goldish
Date of creation: 1912
Artist: Henri Matisse
Original Location: Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France
Movement: Fauvism
Media/Materials: Oil on Canvas
Function: Evoke an emotional response and contemplative relaxation for the viewer
Improvisation 28 (second version)
Date of creation: 1912
Artist: Vassily Kadinsky
Original Location: N/A
Movement: Expressionism
Media/Materials: Oil on Canvas
Function: Create a sense of musicality and make the viewer respond to the painting as if they were listening to a musical composition.
Self-Portrait of a Soldier
Date of creation: 1915
Artist: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Original Location:
Movement: Expressionism
Media/Materials: Oil on Canvas
Function: Metaphorical self-portrait134.
Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht
Date of creation: 1919-1920
Artist: Kathe Kollwitz
Commissioner: Family of Karl Liebknecht
Original Location:
Movement: Expressionism
Media/Materials: Woodcut
Function: Memorialize communist leader Karl Liebhnecht
Villa Savoye
Date of creation: 1929
Artist: Le Corbusier
Original Location: Poissy-sur-Seine, France
Movement: International Style
Media/Materials: Steel and reinforced concrete
Function: Vacation home for an upper-class Parisian family.
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
The Seagram Building
Date of creation: 1954-1958
Artist: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Philip Johnson
Original Location: New York City
Movement: Architecture, International Style
Media/Materials: Steel frames with glass curtain walls and bronze
Function: Headquarters for Seagram liquor Company
Marilyn Diptych
Date of creation: 1962
Artist: Andy Warhol
Original Location: New York
Movement: Pop-Art
Media/Materials: Oil acrylic and silkscreen enamel on canvas
Function: Tribute to Marilyn Monroe
Narcissus Garden
Date of creation: 1966
Artist: Yomi Kusama
Original Location: Italian Pavilion
Movement: Happening
Media/Materials: Plastic spheres with highly polished, reflective mirrored surfaces
Function: Make someone self-reflect on their own ego.
The Bay
Date of creation: 1963
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler
Original Location: N/A
Movement: Abstract
Media/Materials: Diluted Paint
Function: Demonstrate the spontaneous flow of paint in a soak-stain experiment.
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks
Date of creation: 1969-1975
Artist: Claes Oldenburg
Original Location: Beinecke Plaza at Yale University
Movement: Pop-Art
Media/Materials: Cor-Ten steel, aluminum, and cast resin painted with polyurethane enamel
Function: Podium for students to make speeches for peace
Spiral Jetty
Date of creation: 1970
Artist: Robert Smithson
Original Location: Mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks, and water
Movement: Site Art
Media/Materials: Rozel Point Peninsula, Great Salt Lake, Utah
Function: Demonstrate the post-war challenge to traditional art
House in New Castle County
Date of creation: 1978-1983
Artist: Robert Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott Brown
Original Location: Delaware, USA
Movement: Architecture, similar to Monticello
Media/Materials: Wood frame and stucco
Function: Home for a music professor and a bird watcher
