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analysis of the most important works of each artist and movement.
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Pablo PicassoBanksyAndy WarholJean-Michel BasquiatTakashi MurakamiLeonardo da
VinciArtemisia GentileschiJeff Koons
1907


LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON

In both content and execution, this painting shocked the art world and Picasso’s
close friends. Although nude women as subjects were not unusual, blatantly
portraying prostitutes in aggressively sexual postures was extraordinary.
Picasso's studies of tribal art are most evident in the mask-like rendered
faces, imagery that suggests their sexuality as being not just aggressive, but
primitive.

Picasso radically took his experimentation with space to another level in this
work. He abandoned three-dimensionality, which had been customary since the
Renaissance, and instead presented a flattened picture plane that is broken up
into geometric shards. For example, the leg of the woman on the left is painted
as if seen from several points of view simultaneously, making it difficult to
distinguish the leg from the negative space around it.

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2004


KISSING COPPERS

Although the artist remains relatively anonymous, Banksy’s art has become some
of the world’s most recognizable images. With his signature stencil aesthetic,
his creations utilize satire, subversion, dark humor, and irony to create
messages for the masses.

In this iconic image, two British male police officers in full uniform kiss.
Composed on the side of a Brighton pub, the piece caused quite a stir, provoking
both members of the public and the police force to show up for their own prized
selfies. It was replaced with a fresh copy protected by a Perspex case when the
original was removed and flown to the United States to be sold at auction.
Bansky is largely responsible for catapulting guerrilla work into the mainstream
as a viable form of art.

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1962


GOLD MARILYN MONROE

Inspired by his work as a highly paid commercial illustrator in New York, Andy
Warhol’s screen-printed images of everyday consumer objects and visual imagery
from mainstream media would come to define the Pop Art movement. As reigning
king, he helped blur the boundaries between high and low art, bringing what was
normally considered “commercial” into the fine art lexicon.

His iconic work featuring Marilyn Monroe became a testament to both the artist’s
and society’s obsession with fame. After her death from an overdose of sleeping
pills, in 1962 the world became ever more obsessed with her fragile legend.
Warhol’s likenesses of her, borrowed from a publicity still from her movie
Niagara, helped feed that obsession by perpetuating her image within celebrity
popular culture.

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1981


UNTITLED (SKULL)

Transitioning from graffiti artist on the streets to celebrity gallery darling
in only a few short years, Jean-Michel Basquiat is one of the most celebrated
modern artists. His work was a refreshing jumble of many different styles and
techniques, often mixing words and text with abstracts and symbols, resulting in
a highly personal iconography.

In this early canvas-based work, painted when he was only twenty years old, a
patchwork skull is featured, a pictorial equivalent of the monster from Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein, constructed as a sutured sum of incongruent parts.
Suspended before a background that suggests aspects of the New York City subway
system, the skull is at once a contemporary graffitist's riff on a long Western
tradition of self-portraiture, and the "signature piece" of a streetwise
bohemian.

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1996


727

Known for his brightly colored and cheerful works, in which Japanese pop culture
and the country’s rich artistic legacy merge, Takashi Murakami has enjoyed
astronomical fame in the contemporary art world. His Pop Art-like aesthetics
catapulted modern Japanese obsessions such as anime into the mainstream art
world.

His work is typified in this triptych, combining the artist’s signature avatar
Mr. DOB, who sits centrally poised and tragically laughing. 727 is a reference
to the Boeing American airplanes that flew over Murakami’s childhood home while
heading to U.S. military bases, a direct nod to the U.S. presence in post-WWII
Japan that he often revisits in his art. Through this type of work, he crafts a
subtle critique of Japan’s contemporary consciousness as well as the West’s
intruding influence upon it.

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c. 1503


MONA LISA

The first example of a “Renaissance man,” Leonardo da Vinci was a genius in many
fields, including invention, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Known as the
quintessential key figure of the Italian High Renaissance, his artworks
contributed greatly to the aesthetic and techniques popularized during the time.

The Mona Lisa is an iconic example, still revered and studied today, for these
exact qualities. The innovative half-length portrayal shows a woman, said to be
the wife of a Florentine merchant, seated on a chair. The use of sfumato creates
a sense of soft calmness, which emanates from her being, and infuses the
background landscape with a deep realism. Chiaroscuro creates a profound depth
in this piece, which keeps the eye moving across the painting. But it is her
enigmatic smile that magnetizes the viewer, along with the mystery of what's
behind that famous smile.

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1610


SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS

Centuries ahead of her time, Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi was one of
the first and only female artists to achieve success in the seventeenth century.
She was known for her realism and accomplished use of chiaroscuro, but it was
her radical knack at placing women and their stories at the center of her works
that presented a unique personal perspective on the cultural and social norms of
the period, hundreds of years prior to the birth of Feminism.

Boldly portrayed in this accomplished piece, painted by the artist when she was
only 17 years old, two voyeuristic elders spy on the virtuous Susanna while she
is bathing, then attempt to blackmail her into having sexual relations with them
with false accusations of adultery. Susanna's response is uncommonly central to
the painting, demonstrating Gentileschi's unprecedented psychological realism,
particularly in her presentation of women.

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1995-99


BALLOON FLOWER (RED)

Jeff Koons derives inspiration from the role of material objects in our lives
and the consumerism of society as a whole. Whether children’s toys, porcelain
figurines, or glossy pages of a magazine selling products and lifestyles
targeted to our personal pleasures, tastes, and desires, he blows up our
obsessions with tongue firmly planted in cheek. He also creates an ingenious
reversal of economic logic in the way that many of his pieces look cheap but are
expensive, or are expensive versions of items initially made to be cheap,
therefore questioning the fickleness of audience, market, and commercial
success.

His most famous works to date are towering sculptures of balloon animals; this
one stands over ten feet tall, weighing in excess of a ton. According to the
artist, its shiny exterior is intended to "manipulate and seduce" unlike the
cheap rubber it imitates. This intention is duly carried out by the highly
immaculate reflective material that lures a viewer in so close that the overall
composition fades and they are left confronted with their own distorted and
imperfect mirror image.

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progression of visual art.

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