Creative Research Project Example: Pablo Picasso A-Z

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A: Apple
Picasso is an Apple Icon, 1997
Substantiate the evidence
Heres to the crazy ones. (see lizzies notes
Apple Finder Logo was inspired by Picasso

OR
A: Absinthe
ID who the guy is to move up to A level work
B: Blue Period
The Old Guitarist, 1903 AIC
B: Brothel
Picassos first visit to a brothel is at age 13 with dad
Erotic Scene, 1903
He likely exchanged this painting for clothing
Painting reference to Goya Clothed...
Le Bateau-Lavior (destroyed by fire in 1970)
Georges Braque
Painted side-by-side with Picasso
Cubism
Recognize something like analytical vs synthetic cubism
A: multiple viewpoints
S: brighter colors and simple shapes
D: Dove of Peace
E: Exorcism Paintings
Called the things that trouble him, private demons
La Vie
F: Five-Foot-Four
Required all his women to be shorter than him
F: Fifteen Years Old
H: Harlequin
A mute character in traditional pantomime
I am Picasso
One of his quotes
I met him in the street. I was going shopping: I was going to buy a little collar for a
blouse. He was looking at me. He has suburb. He gave a nice smile and then he
accosted me. He said to me Miss, you have an interesting face...he said to me I am
Picasso --Marie-Therese Walter recalling meeting 46 year old Picasso in 1927.
The Dream, 1932

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 Painted in one day. Has extra fingers. Its like the dream escapes.
Art is currency. Investment.
J: Jewelry
K: Korea
Picassos criticism of the Korean War
Ref/ Quotation to Goya
L:Lump
Dachshund owned by Picasso and lived with him for 6 years
M: Minoator
M:Miranda Fuerte
Strong gaze. He thought he could seduce you with his eyes
Nude Green Leaves and Bust
Name of lady in picture
O: Women of Algiers
P: Papier Cole
Pasting newsprint and colored paper onto canvas
Bottle and Wine Glass on a Table, 1912
Q: Questioned by the police investigating the theft of the Mona Lisa, 1911
R: Rose Period
R: Royalties
Mont Blanc, Picasso Pen: $55,000
S: Self Portrait
T: Tiffany & Company
Paloma Picasso designs for Tiffanys
U: Untitled
People call it the Picasso but he wouldnt like that
V: Vollard Suite 1930-
W:Women
The short list of his women
X: X-Ray
You always find something underneath. He reused canvas
Y: Yo, Picasso (1901)
Z: ZigZags
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(long name) Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Nerja Caves: Seals on Stalactites, Malago, Spain 41,000 BCE- Jose Luis Sanchidrian
Birthplace of Picasso

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 Underground where Picasso lived
There are things hidden (in you, in the earth) that are just waiting to be discovered
The Church of St. James the Apostle, 1509
Malaga, Spain
Where Picasso was baptized
Shells are a sign of pilgrimage
Alter Boy, Picasso @ 15 Years
Under the teaching of dad.
Nude, 1896
I easily learned to draw like Raphael when I was young, but it took me a lifetime to
learn to draw like a child.
Head of a Woman, 1900
Louise Lenoir (aka Odette)-Model
In Barcelona people did not p ublicly display sexual attraction for another outside the
red-light district
In Paris they did so all over the place
Picasso has two roommates
Carlos casagemas and manuel pallares
All three teens were in love with Models
Louise Lenoir (Picasso)
The Blue Room, Picasso-1901
He could not afford to acquire new canvases every time he had an idea that he
wanted to pursue
Paints on top of earlier paintings
He sometimes paints on cardboard
May Milton Poster (1895) by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec in the room
English dancer May Milton was short on talent and physical beauty
Shes in Moulin Rouge too. (AIC)
Painting of an old man underneath (never know what is under the surface)
The Blue Period
The blind or visibly hungry, corpses, cheerless drunkards, neglected beggars and
haggard streetwalkers
Picasso couldnt afford new canvases (x-ray them)
This reminds us how failure and genius can be revealed in the same frame.
Portrait of a Young Girl-1938
Stolen from a Yacht off the cast of the Antibes in 1999
The Old Guitarist, 1904
Under
Painting of a woman underneath
Old woman with her head bent forward
Young mother with a small child kneeling by her side
Cow and calf
Guitarist is blind

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 End of the blue period (1901-1904)
Blue is a cool color. Gold guitar is warm
Shape of the guitar
Hips-feminine shape
Mourning a loss in his life?
Picasso having a sensitive moment remembering love in his life
What made PP Modern?
Free to do what he wanted because he both poor and rich
Initially nobody cared to interfere with his work, ideas, esthetic, choices and lifestyle
Predicated his art on (his) physical sensation(s)
Not afraid to translate passion, desire, hunger, lust onto the canvas
Thinking BEYOND given and/or official categories
Because he knew the rules he could break them
Self-portrait-1907
Blue Period today?

John Dugdale (b1960)

A life that is aesthetically pleasing

Photographer that has aids, cancer, blind,

Worked for Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren----canned
Sunday Portrait, Morton Street, NYC 1997
Works in blue because it doesnt cause pain to his existing eye
**Only study the blue John Dugdale **
The Spirit Eye, NYC 1998
Working from a gay aesthetic
John is the one sitting
Peaches in Ironstone Bowl, Stone Ridge NY, 1996
Experience blue
Visual poem
Jacobs Ladder, Lockwood Farm, Stone Ridge NY 1999
Drawing from spiritual vocabulary
Dream recorded in Genesis. Angels up and down the ladder.
Access heaven by way of earth
How will I ever access heaven? (why the nudity is there)
Annunciation, 2003
Presumes biblical literacy
Luke: young girl hearing from heaven that shes going to bring new life into
the world. Woman is supposed to be Mary
Bro is angel gabriel.
Lilies always suggest something about the fragrance of faith

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 Rebirth, 1992
Candle: thinking about how his light is about to be snuffed out
Lilly, dying
Peace be Unto You, Morton St. NYC, 1999
Water and doves: purity
1993: diagnosed with Aids and a grim assortment of opportunistic illnesses
A Turbulent Dream, 1998
Whos going to find me when I die?
Self-Portrait as David, 1997
Holds a print of Michael Angelo-David in Florence
Elegy, 1998
A mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially for a funeral song or a lament
for the dead.
Said
Art is the best way to communicate our deepest feelings
Art buts roots down through the surface into the subsoil of the human heart and
draws up those elements that would otherwise lie locked there, unheard, unspoken,
perhaps unregarded.

No. 8, I Cant See to See, Morton Street, NYC 1998

La Vie, 1903-Picasso
Backstory (see earlier notes)
Painted over a 1899 Canvas
Carlos Casagemas
Germaine
Also painted Carlos in the casket

At the Lapin Agile, 1905
How is he attired? Hes in the guise of harlequin
Laure Germain
What is lapin Agile? Where is Lapin Agile?
Woman Ironing, 1904
Picasso
Painting a portrait of a man with mustache under
Blue period
Vic Muniz
Woman Ironing (Isis), Pictures out of garbage, 2008
Plastic Bottles Bottle caps, steel rings nuts and bolts etc.
Rejectamenta

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 Crazy Woman with Cats, 1901 (AIC)
Picasso
Boy (Ptit Louie) with Pipe, 1905
104,100,000
Flowers suggests his noble youth
Candy Cigarette, 1989
Sally Mann
Her child

5 4 tall
Above all, he had what Spaniards call the MIRADA FUERTE, the strong gaze, which as
Picasso said enables a man to have a girl with his eyes
Portrait dAngel Fernandez de Soto
Picasso would share a pair of gloves with angel in order to look more elegant.
Horrible living conditions
Au rendez-vous des poetes in blue chalk on the door of his studio
Translate: A Meeting of Poets
Without poets Im in poverty
Dora Maar (1907-1997)
Met Picasso in Jan 1936 at the Cafe les Deux Magots when she was 29 years old and
he was 54 (9 year relationship)
Drew her
5 Factors that determined his way of life and likewise his style, said Dora Maar
1-The woman with whom he was in love
Love
2- The poet, or poets, who serve as a catalyst;
Poets
3- The place where he lived
Environement
4- The circle of friends who provided the admiration and understanding of which he
never had enough
Friends
5- And the dog who was his inseparable companion
Animals
Dora Maar with Cat, 1941
95,216
Nude, Green Leave, and Bust, 1932
Marie Therese Walter--couple for 6 years
23 yrs old when painted
Portrait of Marie-Therese Walter (age 26), 1935
Woman sitting near a Window
La Lecture, 1932
Woman by a Window

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 April 13 1936
Profile could be nobody else but her
The Dream, 1932
Post 2006 6 inch repair (90000 to fix) post 2006 155 million
Head of a Woman

3/29/2017

Head of a Woman, 1935

Not going to pick up a brush for an entire year after he leaves Marie for Olga
Kohkhlova
One of the most carefully painted portraits of Marie
Green crescent moon is reference to her pregnancy
Picasso has 4 children
Francoise Gilot is the only woman who ever left him (1953)
After 10 years he didnt know her
2 kids: Claude, Paloma
Never spoke to them after 1964
She is also a painter
Physical act that you do fast. It's about energy. Be fast, be intuitive.
Purchase her own paintings pack
Olive Leaf Cuff
Paloma Picasso
Inspired by her dads own inquiry into the olive branch
He was the same age as my grandfather
Genevive Laporte
Sold 20 sketches (love letters) that Picasso drew while they were on holiday in St.
Tropez in 1951
Involved for 3 years
Picassos last words
Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I cant drink anymore
Roy Lichtenstein, Woman with Flowered Hat, 1963
Copy of picasso sold for 56,123,750 to Laurence Gaff as a birthday present for myself
Know youre looking at Lichtenstein because of dots

Guernica
Painted between April 26,1937 to June 1937
Found in Madrid
He thought this painting would stop people from ever going to war again
Recording an event that occurred on April 26, 1937 3:30pm
11feet, 6 inhces x 25 feet
Inspired by an eyewitness account of the bombing on 26 April 1937

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 Attack on a town by germans.
Note newspaper print--> newspapers were trusted back then
Nowhere on the canvas do we see the enemy
Meaning
The bull is a bull
The horse is a horse
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but
it is not my idea to give this meaning
What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively
unconsciously.
I make the painting for the painting
I paint the objects for what they are
Guernica is to a painting to what Beethovens Ninth Symphony is to music: a cultural
icon that speaks to humankind not only against war but also of hope and peace
It is a reference to
Light bulb: Bombilla
Bomb: Bomba
Picasso is paid to paint a mural for the Worlds Fair (changed the mural AFTER the
event of Guernica)
Vandalized in 1974 b/c of Vietnam
I wanted to bring the art absolutely up to date, to retrieve it from art
history and give it life
My Lai massacre
Because its not sufficient to know an artists works - it is
Mother and Dead Child, Kathe Kollwitz, 1903
Banned by Hitler, but reappropriated her work in propaganda
We have no word for this. If we dont have a name for you then who are you?
Art makes up for what words cant say
Reference to the woman and child in Guernica
Reference to Kent State Strike Poster
Legend
When paris was occupied by Nazis flyers of Guernica were handed out
No you did
Tumbling Woman, Eric Fischl, 2002
Post 9-11
He was in NYC when the towers were attacked
Location: Rockefeller Center
Installed Sept 12, 2002, shrouded Sept 18, removed on Sept 19, 2002
Glass and bronze
Father Nielson on Art
The Artist acts as a
Social commentator
Historical Interpreter

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 There has always been a duality to the purpose of art
It expresses emotion
It evokes emotion

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New Bedford Rape(1983),

Sue Coe, 1984
Gang rape
Context of Guernica,
Black and white for a reason
Use of the pool lamp like shards of glass
No matter how much light you shed on the situation you cant
rationalize it
Woman walks into a bar, is raped by 4 men on the pool table, while 20 watch, 1983
This piece of art lets us talk it out. The only way something is going to get better
Who was the woman?
Cheryl Araujo (1961-1986)
Big Dans Bar, New Bedford, MA
March 6, 1983
Guernica is reproduced at the United Nations.
Tapestry
Artist used color..
Disney character version..

Cubism (1910-1914)
The first RADICALLY new proposition about the WAY WE SEE in 500 years
First time since the italian renaissance
Its a modern renaissance
A new way of thinking about how we are, how we can see each other
Its a new pictorial language
Many of us do things, but do we do original things?
Its a way of altering time and space
What do we learn from cubism?
Our knowledge of an object is made up of all possible views of it.
We are more than just the facade that people see. We have multiple angles
See St. Patricks Breastplate
Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,

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 Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
Born in France
Picasso and Braque are working together
Who dont know who did it.
The things that Picasso and I said to one another during those years will never be
said again, and even if they were, no one would understand them anymore
They did not make the word cubism
Meant as an insult by Louis Vauxcelles (art critic) inspired the name Cubism in his
review of Braques work in 1908
Braque is an exceedingly bold young man he despises form and reduces
everything, landscapes and figures and horses, to geometrical patterns to
cubes
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures
George Braque (1882-1963)
Fruit Dish, 1913
Cubism is rooted in concrete reality (even if that reality is sometimes barely
recognizable)
Braque, 1908 vs Bouguereau 1899
Braque does the essence of the woman
Ma Jolie, 1912 (MoMa)
Picasso
My Pretty Girl
Ma Jolie = nickname of Picasso's girlfriend, Marcelle Humbert
Girl with a Mandolin, 1910
Fanny Tellier
Picasso
In MoMa
Reebok Campaign 2000
The Aficionado (Le Torero)
Portrait of a Man
Woman in an Armchair, 1913
Picasso
Marcelle Humbert aka Eva Gouel

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 Ad for Dexter was Cubism

Les Demoiselles dAvignon

Created in 1907
Public viewing in 1916
Held it for that long because world wasnt ready
Reproduced in 1925
Originally an allegory of venereal disease called The Wages of Sin (original title)
Another exorcism painting
Showing us that that he fears the most: Women
Masks from Africa. A Power he doesnt have access to.
Transition from the blue to rose period
Compare to Venus, Cupid, Folly, & Time (an allegory of syphilis) 1545
Bronzino
Time tells all of our secrets
Multiple inspirations for this painting
Real women/prostitutes
Ancient Egyptian Eyes
Giorgiones Venus
Posture= fragrance
El Grecos Visitation
Biblical
Iberian stone sculptures
African Masks
A colonial point of view: Africa as an exploitable resource
Take the lifeblood of the community
Many drawings in advance
Originally wanted it to be a doctor walking into a brothel
Senoritas Suicidio, 2005
Luis Gispert
Websites are our virtual brothels
Les Demoiselles dAlabama, 1985
Robert Colescott (1925-2009)
We have our own stories
Spent most of his career repainting the western paintings from the African American
asthetic
Fear of women and anxiety about impotence and castration by The Walking Scrotum, is the
psychic reality and sub-theme of this painting
Robert Hughes
Picasso
78 year career

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 13,500 paintings
147,800 works of art.
350 +/- works stolen
Picasso tends to get vandalized
Woman in Red Arm Chair. June 2012 in Texas
Conquista
Felony Graffiti for 2 years
I performed the vandalism in dedication to all the people out there
Untitled, The Picasso
In Chicago

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 Andrew Warhola (Andy Warhol)
Born in Pittsburgh
Humble beginnings
The youngest of three sons to Slovakian Immigrants, Julia and Ondrej
Extremely sick his whole life
Mamas boy
He would anglicize his surname at the start of his artistic career

Brillo Boxes
Someone else did this for him.
Plywood sculptures painted to resemble cardboard packaging
Is this an art gallery of supermarket warehouse?
Blur the lines about whats art, where is art?
Andy presses a lot of buttons
Martin Creed
Work No. 916, 2008
Campbells Soup Cans
20th century icon
Making us realize a cultural shift. The loss of culture.
We gave up taste for efficiency
32 Campbells Soup Cans, 1962 (LA exhibition)
$100 each. Only 6 Sold
The gallerist Irving Blum bought them back.
Sold in 1996 for $15 million.
Cats
Loved cats
Notice the blotted line. Broken and confused.
Made him a millionaire
Purr written by mom
Celebrities
Hanging with Trump
Christmas Tree (1957)
Year Father Nielson was born
Dollars
Silk screened them
What is our money? Paper and ink?
A more advanced society than our own will one day hand cash on its walls rather
than hang painting
200 one dollar bills, 1962
Sold for $43.8 million in 2009

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 He would sign money
Drella
A nickname for Andy coined by superstar Ondine (Robert Olivo) a contraction of
Dracula and Cinderella
He hated the name
Edie Sedgwick
Exceptionally wealthy, colossally troubled.
Andys muse and companion
18 underground films together
Films that never would make it to the mall
Constantly under the influence of drugs
Warhol Superstar
Dead at 28
The Factory
6 different NYC locations
He had people do the work for him
Gunshot Wound
Shot by a factory worker.
Was pronounced dead
Valerie Solanas shot him three times
Wore a surgical corset for the rest of his life
Scum Manifesto
Presentation of the rationale and program of action for SCUM (society for cutting up
men) which will eliminate through sabotage all aspects of society not relevant to
women (everything), bring about a complete female take-over, eliminate the male sex
and began to create a swinging
Guns
232 drawings, silkscreens and photographs of firearms
Horder
610 Time Capsules: Boxes of ephemera
Hamburger
(burger king)
Short film
I. Miller
Warhol began his career as an illustrator for commercial brands in NYC, 1949
His quirky adverts boosted I.Millers flagging sales
Interview Magazine
Founded 1969
Jackie Kennedy
Born a year after him
He was obsessed with celebrities
Appropriated from media images, Warhol produced over 300 images of Jackie
He was handsome, young, smart, but it didnt bother me much that he was dead

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 The King
Elvis Presley
The King of Rock n Roll
Immortalizes him
Fame was one of Warhols chief preoccupations
Roy Lichtenstein
The competition
Warhols Pop Art Peer and Rival
Both began the 1960s with images inspired by comics
It was Lictensteins runaway success that prompted Warhol to look.
Marilyn Monroe
Following her death Warhol made a series of paintings, based on her
Mother
Lived in his basement
Mamas boy
Julia Warhola from 1952-1971
She often contributed to his artwork from painting and writing text to signing his
signature
Movie Stars
Shirley Temple
Richard Nixon
Takes a campaign poster and makes it for McGovern
Warhol supported democrat
Deborah Kass: Vote Hillary
Orange Disaster #5, 1963
Series of electrics chairs
Warhol was an american history painter
Painting means color, image
He held a miror up to society and reflected a lot more than simply what was in his
kitchen cabinets
Death and disasters series: sucidal
Popism
Warhols 1980 memoir about the 60s
Largely ghost-written
The idea behind Pop art
Polaroid Portraits
Queens
1985: Portfolio of the worlds four reigning female monarchs
Elizabeth II of England
Beatrix of the Neatherlands
Margrethe II of Denmark
Ntobi Twala of Swaziland
Silk screen

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 Pop art: the colors literally pop
Race Riots
Andy stole/appropriated this image from a magazine Charles Moore in LIFE
A series of silkscreen paintings from 1963-64 derived from three photographs in Life
magazine (Birmingham, AL)
The photographs of Bull Conns police dogs lunging at the marches in Birmingham
did as much as anything to transform the national mood and make legislation not just
necessary...but possible
A diagnosis of America
Media overexposure desensitizes us even to the most shocking imagery
Rejected
By the Museum of Modern Art, NY 1919 (MoMa)
Silkscreen
To paint like a machine, removing evidence of the artists hand for a mass-produced
look.
Studio 54
Dance club with the best drugs in NYC
Doorman only admitted stunningly beautiful
Television
C. 1980-- 10 show series about fashion for a Manhattan Cable Channel
1982: Andy Warhols TV
Uccello (1397-1475)
Appropriated medieval paintings too
Velvet Underground
Warhol managed the rock group
Warhol designed the bands naughty debut album
Wigs
Owned 40+ wigs
Oct 30 1985, wig snatched from his head
Wild Raspberries
Suzie Frankfurt/Andy Warhol
94 original copies
Satirical Cookbook
19 hand-colored illustrations by 4 schoolboys who live in Andys Building
Hand-lettered by his mom
Worship
Developed a fondness, bordering on obsession, fro Truman Capote
He bombarded the author with phone calls and fan mail, with such regularity that
Capotes mother demanded he stop
Eventually they became friends
Warhols first exhibition in NYC was a set of 15 drawing that were lost
Andy attended daily Mass, never received communion
He financed his nephews seminary tuition

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 Met JPII (pope)
X-rated
Blood for dracula & Flesh for Frankenstein
Yves St. Laurent
Famous clothing designer
Drawing of him by Andy
Silk screen paintings
Designed the Mondrian dresses, 1966
Zebra
Endangered species 1983 series
10 animals at risk of extinction, including Grevys Zebra

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Surrealist Art
PHANTASMOGORIC
Immaterial
Enigmatic
Personal (thus almost impossible to interpret)
The Son of Man, 1964
Rene Magritte (1898-1967)
Privately owned
Apples dont float! How could this be?
Bowler Hat a trademark for Rene Magritte
At least it hides the face partly well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding
the visible but hidden, the face of the person. Its something that happens constantly.
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by
what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does
not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of
conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is
present.
Liu Bolin (b 1973)
The invisible man
Uses his body as the canvas
The Pilgrim, 1967
Rene Magritte
Year he dies--significant
Golconda, 1953
Rene Magritte
Its raining men
Invasion of groupthink?
The Weather Girls Its raining men music video
Golconda is a mythical location

Surrealism
1924-1966
Arose in Paris
Reacting to the war
Created after the horror of WWI
Inspired/Begotten by Dada
Transcending conscious thought
Reality, but something above the type of reality we understand
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 Rejection of bourgeois values
Advancing a revolution of the mind
Influenced by Freudian Theories on the unconscious, dreams, desire and repression
Caused shock and sensation
Content/interests
Myth
Primitivism
Madness (Mental Health)
Sex
Jolting viewers out of their comfortable notions of reality
Artist to know: Rene Magritte
The Future of Statues, 1937
Rene Magritte
Liu Bolin takes his que from this
The Portrait. 1935
The Treachery/Treason of Images, 1929
This is not a pipe
Empire of Light
Nighttime house vs sky daytime
Jackson browne: late for the sky
Not to Be Reproduced, 1937
Dont see your reflection
Reflections, 2009
Tom Hussey?
Novartus: Exelon Patch used for treating Alzheimers Disease
Golden Addy Award
Mirrors
Elderly looking at their younger reflections
The Lovers no. 2
Time Transfixed, 1938
The Rape, 1945
Surrealism isnt just quirky interesting. Its serious too.
Gigantic/Titanic Days, 1928
Horrific in the narrative it describes: violation
He makes the man part of her body. She cant get rid of the violation even though hes
gone
Personal Values, 1952
Magritte
The Listening Room, 1952
Magritte
The Lovers II, 1928
Magritte
Clairvoyance

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 Egg
Within the glowing egg a bird- Christina Rossetti

Meret Oppenheim
Object, Breakfast in Fur, 1936
Chinese Gazelle
MoMa
My Nurse,
Erotic Veiled, 1933
Can a woman exist in a mans field?
The Bathhouse,

Piet Mondrian: DE STIJL(1917-1931)

Dutch movement in response to WWI
Conceived art as socially and spiritually redemptive
A universal language for a new world
Reacting against the over-decorative Art Nouveau Style
Eliminated representation in an abstract, pared-down aesthetic
A visual language of geometric forms and primary colors
Influenced by the mystic ideas of Theosophy
The De Stijl Artist
Church, 1898
Yves St. Laurent, Mondrian dresses 1966
Broadway Boogie Woogie

Roy Lichtenstein
Appropriated these items from a cartoonist
Guy with the dots
Nurse, 1964
Sleeping Girl, 1964
Life magazine wrote an article called Is he the Worst Artist in the US?
Appropriates from Tony Abruzzo
Ben-Day Dot
Printing technique
Bold outlines, vivid colors, ben-day dots
Look Mickey, 1961

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 I can see the whole room!
Nudes in Mirror
Slashed with a knife in 2005

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Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali and Edward James
Made by Green & Abbott,
A Sofa in the Form of Mae Wests Lips
1938
Edition of 5
(furniture)
Tom Wesselmann, Mouth #3, 1966
Shaped canvas
Tom Wesselmann, Smoker #1
Salvador Dali
Ruby Lips
1949
Edition of 10
Lobster Telephone, 1936
Lobster Dress, 1937
Inspired from collaboration with Salvador Dali
Cecil Beaton. Engagement portrait of Wallis..
Seafood Girl
Horst P. Horst
From Dalis The Dream of Venus Pavilion, NY Worlds Fair, 1939
Mainbocher Corset
American Vogue
Erik Halley, Lobster Necklace
I particularly love surrealism
The lobster is the symbol of surrealism
****Paranoiac Critical Method of Seeing **
In Volupta Mors
Salador Dali & Philippe Halsman
A Tableau vivant composed of seven nudes
Living image
Halsman took three hours to arrange the models according to the sketch by Dali
Fear of deadly women

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 Memento mori
The Rebel Ink Shoot
Jordan Doner
Study for The Image Disappears, 1938
Paranoiac-critical method: What do YOU see?

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Mark Rothko
No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)
The paintings of Mark Rothko and the dresses of Vera Wang
1996 Fall Collection

Grant Wood (1891-1942)

American Gothic, 1930
AIC (on loan)
Bronze medal winner, $300
Nan Wood Graham & Dr. McKeeby
Sister and dentist
Carpenter Gothic style windows
Purchased window from Sears
You wear what you are
Tight bun unwound shes on her way to a nervous breakdown
Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy, 1822
Theodora Gericault
Hair also coming undone
Gordon Parks
American Gothic (Washington DC). 1942
Ella Watson
Cleaner at the capital
Study for Dinner for Threshers, 1934
Grant Wood
Trees are always round with grant wood

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Jackson Pollock (AZ)
A: Alcohol
First drink at 15
Treated for alcoholism 6 times
Quits drinkings for 2 years & makes his best work: 1948-1950
All I taught Jack was how to drink a fifth a day-- Thomas Hart Benton (teacher)
A: Abstract Expressionism (1943-1955)
Monumentally scaled works that stood as reflections of the artists individual psyches
A: Action Painting
The canvas is an arena to act
B: Thomas Hart Benton
America Today (Mural), 1930
Spends a lot of time Benton...
18 year old Jackson posing for Benton
C: Cedar Street Tavern
Incubator for the Ab Ex. Artists, NYC
Young artists would frequently try to touch Pollock for good luck
C: CIA
Some of pollocks works would sponsored by the Congress for f or Cultural Freedom,
which was backed by the CIA
C: Childrens Book
Action Jackson
D: Drip Paintings
Just playing with gravity
Very masculine
Hes the origin of this
D: Duco & Davoe Paints
Hardware store paints
Too masculine to go to an art store.
Hyper masculine tendency
E: Expelled from high school 2 (or three) ties
Never graduated from high school
Coming to school drunk
F: Floor
He paints on the floor
Needs a hard surface
F: Dead at 44
Ancient stone marks his grave
F: Fashion
Lots of people have been influenced by a pollock
G: Guggeneim, Peggy
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 Patron of the arts
Commissioned Pollocks Mural for her townhouse entrance 1943
$150 a month until the work was finished
G: Gloss Enamel Paint
Modern household and industrial paint
Cheaper than oil
G: Greenberg, Clement
Art Critic & Champion of JP
H: Handprints
How he signed top-right on the Lavender Mist
I: I am Nature
When hans hofmann invited Pollock to study with him and work more from nature,
pollock replied: I am nature
J: Jungian Therapy (to treat alcoholism & depression)
J: Jack the Dripper
Time magazine
J: Jigsaw Puzzle, 1964
Worlds most difficult puzzle
K: Lee Krasner
1908-1984
Shes also an artist
Wife
K: Ruth Kligman
Girlfriend
L: Lucifer, 1947
When Pollock finished Lucifer he had to ask lee krasner: Is this a painting?
M: MoMa
The first museum to purchase a Pollock
The She-Wolf, 1943
M: Mondrian, Piet
Upon seeing Stenographic Figure in spring 1943, Mondrian said to Peggy
Guggenheim
Im trying to understand whats happening here
I think this is the most interesting work Ive seen so far in America
You must watch this man
N:Numbers
Numbers are neutral
They make people look at picture for what it is...pure painting- Lee Krasner
The minute you title something you put a fence around it
N: Number 17A, 1948
$200 Million
N: Nail Polish
O: Oldsmobile

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 August 11, 1956
1950, green convertible
Crash that killed him and his girlfriends friend
P: Betty Parsons Gallery, 1944-1982
Shit to Pollock
P: Paul Jackson Pollock
Dropped his first name
Q: Quote
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather
than illustrating
R: Rice Krispy Treats
R: Norman Rockwell
The Connoisseur, 1961
S: Springs Fireplace Rd, Springs, LI, NY
Long Island
S: Sand
Gives it texture
Ref to sand painting
Adapting another cultures aesthetic
S: Sculpture
Untitled, 1956
T: Timeline
S: Stamp
USPS
Norman rockwell was the first
U: University of Iowa Museum of Art
Location of Mural, 1943
Created for Peggy Guggenheims Townhouse entrance
Gifted to UIMA in 1951
V: Volcanic
Pollockss talent was described as volcanic
V: Vogue Magazine, 1 March 1951
Photographs of new fashions in front of pollocks
W: WPA
Federal art project
Employed 5300 artists
W: White Light, 1954
X: XRF
Removing restorers overpaint
Y: Yellow Islands, 1952
Z: Zilch
Number of black paintings or black pouring sold at betty parsons gallery in 1951

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Edward St. John Gorey
School of AIC, 1943 one semester
Harvard 1950, French
Illustrator
Famous for tennis shoes and fur coats
The Gashlycrumb Tinies, 1963
Childrens book AZ

Wilfredo Prieto
One, 2008
Pile of fake diamonds on the floor
28,000,000 fakes and one real one
How do you know when youve met the one
The politics of desire, consumerism
Cuban

(William) Robert Indiana (1928)

Love, 1964
Still working today
Sold rights for $1000
No copyright on it.
Eventually got a copyright but its too late
300,000,000 printed = $24, 000,000 he missed out on
LOVE
Recollection of a sign/banner at a boyhood Christ Scientist Church
God is Love
1958 poem in which he stacked letters LOVE
Spent three years in seminary
Christmas Card
Appropriations he didnt like
Robert Cenedella, Shit, 1965
Marlene McCarty, Love, AIDS
General Idea
Felix Partz (Ronald Gabe), Jorge Zontal (Slobodan Saia-Levy) , AA Bronson
(Michael Tims)

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 AIDS, 1987
A transgressive reinscription of LOVE
Picked up by the Journal of American Medical Association
White AIDS #3, 1982
AIC
Whitewashing it, put the curtain over it
AIDS (A project for the public art Fund, Inc.), 1989
4500 posters placed in the NY subway system, one card is every
second carriage
Rage against the machine
Renegades
Ellsworth Kelly
Red Blue
Converse Sneakers
Hope, Robert Indiana, 2008
Barack Obama Pres campaign
Its really a brother to LOVE or a sister or a very close family member
MECCA Arena for the Bucks in 1997
Peace paintings in response to the middle east
All proceeds go to hospitals in in the middle east
They should be reproduced as
My paintings are like one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Uses simplified text to address a complex issue

Damien Hirst
For the Love of God, 2007
Celebration of life
Shows we arent going to live forever
Life-size human skull
35 year old 18th century european male
Spend 26.8 million to have someone else make it for him
Sold august 2007 for 107 million

Marc Chagall
White Crucifixion, 1938
AIC
Dreamy figures
Kristallnacht: Night of Broken Glass
WWII: Jewish shops glass broken by Germans.
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 Inspiration for the painting
Emphasizing Jesus was Jewish
Tallit
Marc is Jewish
Faith tradition overwhelming the human condition

Eiffel Tower
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel Engineer (not an architect)
Industrial materials
1889
To commend 100 years after the french revolution: Paris Worlds Fair/Centenary of the
French Revolution
Imagined by Guillaume Apollinaire to be the S econd coming of Christ
The power of SECULAR process and transformation
Only a 20 year lease and then take it down
10000 tons, 1665 steps
Evolving Color
60 tons
Red/brown, yellow ochre, chestnut brown, Bronze Today
Public space vs Private space

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