Art History Final, Arth 2

Kara Walker, A Subtlety, Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, 2014

("An homage to the unpaid and overworked artisans who have refined our sweet tastes from the cane fields to the kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the Demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant")

Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51

Abstract Expressionism

Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1950-52

Abstract Expressionism/Action Painting

Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930

American Regionalism

László Moholy-Nagy, Light-Space Modulator, 1922-30

Bauhaus

Fernand Léger, Three Women, 1921

Machine Age Art 1910s-20s

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937

Refers to the incident in Spain in which over one thousand people were injured or killed being bombed by German fascists. This work serves as a memorial of the event and does not spare the horror. Picasso only read about the event in newspapers and therefore the work was in black and white.

Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972

Rooted from racist stereotype; cotton references slavery, gun shows liberation

Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, 1950

Very loose, very free, less dense and more open in appearance. More fall-like colors. Transparent lines, light background color.

Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931

surrealism