Aaron Douglas; Noah’s Ark, ca.1927; Oil on Masonite; Pablo Picasso; Geurnica,1937; Oil on Canvas; Museo
Fisk University Galleries, University of Tennessee,
Nacional centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Nashville
D: A mural sized canvas of immense power
D: Noah leading the ark as it sails of before disaster
A: The fragmentation of objects and dislocation of
strikes the land
anatomical features.
A: Incorporation of motifs from African American
I: An expression of Picasso’s feelings toward the
sculpture and the transparent angular planes
German attack on Guernica
characteristic of Synthetic Cubism
J: High Merit
I: The storytelling of some type of African American
Piet Mondrian; Composition with reed, blue, and
Struggle
J: Combining of two stories through the depiction of yellow,1930; Oil on Canvas; HCR International ,USA
one
D: A grid of the primary colors
Salvador Dali; The Persistence of Memory, 1931; Oil A: Locked primary colors into a grid of intersecting
vertical and horizontal lines. BY altering the grid
on Canvas; Museum of Modern Art, New York
patterns, he created a dynamic tension.
I:Purity of the primary colors
D: Three decaying watches
J: High Merit
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
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
Roy Lichtenstein, Hopelss,1963; Oil on Canvas;
Kunstmuseum Basel
Andy Warhol; green Coca-Cola Bottles,1962; Oil on
Canvas; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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.
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
Chuck Close; Big Self- Portrait,1967-68; 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
Willem De Kooning; Woman I, 1950-1952;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.
Frank Lloyd Wright; Kaufmann House(Fallingwater)
Bear Run, Pennsylvania; 1936-1939
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
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