Representing
Beauty
Title: The Persistence of Memory
Artist: Salvador Dali
Date: 1931
Source/Museum: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Given anonymously. Photo
© The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York. © 2003 Salvador
Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 9 ½ x 13 in.
On view, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Surrealism a style of art, originating in the early 20th century, in which the reality
of the dream, or the subconscious mind, is seen more as “real” than the surface
reality of everyday life.
Title: Seated Bather by the Sea
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1930
Source/Museum: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs.
Simon Guggenheim Collection. Z. VII, 206.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 63 5/8 x 50 ½ in.
Title: Seated Bather by the Sea
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1930
Source/Museum: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs.
Simon Guggenheim Collection. Z. VII, 206.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 63 5/8 x 50 ½ in.
Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon or the Young Ladies of Avignon or the
Brothel
Source/Museum: Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P.
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1907
Size: 8 ft. x 7 ft. 8 in.
Bliss
Request. Photo © 1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed by Scala-Art Resource,
New York. © 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Pablo Picasso – Girl with a Mandolin 1917
Title: Medical Student, Sailor, and Five Nudes in a Bordello (study for Les
Demoiselles d'Avignon)
Source/Museum: Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung, Kupferstichkabinett Basel. Photo:
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Medium: Charcoal and pastel
Date: 1907
Size: 18 ½ x 25 in.
Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung, Martin Buhler. © 2004 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights
Society (ARS), New York.
Title: Study for the Crouching Demoiselle
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1907
Source/Museum: Musée Picasso, Paris. Reunion des Musées Nationaux/
© 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Gouache on paper
Size: 24 ¾ x 18 ⅞ in.
Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon or the Young Ladies of Avignon or the
Brothel
Source/Museum: Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P.
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1907
Size: 8 ft. x 7 ft. 8 in.
Bliss
Request. Photo © 1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed by Scala-Art Resource,
New York. © 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Representing
The Sprititual
Title: God, panel from the Ghent Altarpiece
Artist: Jan van Eyck
Date: c. 1432
Source/Museum: St. Bavo's, Ghent. Scala/Art Resource, New
York.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Jan van Eyck Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife 1434
Jan van Eyck’s
Ghent Altarpiece
Title: Kukailimoku, Hawaii
Source/Museum: The British Museum, London.
Artist: n/a
Medium:Wood
Date: Late 18th or early 19th century
Size: 7 ft. 7 in.
Title: Crucifixion (detail), from the Isenheim Altarpiece
Artist: Matthias Grünewald
Date: c. 1512-1515
Source/Museum: Musée Unterlinden, Colmar. Erich Lessing/Art
Resource, New York.
Medium: Oil on paper
Size: Height 117 ½ in.
Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1907
Source/Museum: Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P.
Bliss
Request. Photo © 1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Licensed by Scala-Art Resource,
New York. © 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 8 ft. x 7 ft. 8 in.
The Isenheim Altarpiece closed view
The Isenheim Altarpiece open view
The Isenheim Altarpiece in its home at the Unterlinden Museum in Alsace, France.
Vanitas is a Latin word used since the renaissance to describe the transitionary period
through life
Title: Still Life or Vanitas (tulip, skull, and hour glass)
Artist: Philippe de Champaigne
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Musée de Tessé, Le Mans, France. Photo:
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 11 ¼ x 14 ¾ in.
dualism, the idea that you can't understand what you're looking at unless you know
its opposite. For example, a lot of his work has themes such as life and death, light
and dark, stressed and calm, loud and quiet, etc.
Bill Viola
Representing
Form and Function
Title: Coffin Orange, in the Shape of a Cocoa Pod
Artist: Kane Kwei (Teshi tribe, Ghana, Africa)
Date: c. 1970
Source/Museum: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Gift of Vivian Burns, Inc., 74.8.
Medium: Polychrome wood
Size: 34 x 105 ½ x 24 in.
Title: Coconut Grater, Kapingamarangi, Caroline Islands
Source/Museum: Private Collection.
Artist: n/a
Medium: Wood, shell blade attached with sennet
Date: 1954
Size: Height 19 in.
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