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Death and Funeral of Cain

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David Alfaro Siqueiros
Crowd of people worshipping a giant dead chicken
Mexican realism movement
Allusion to Cold War

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The Raft of the Medusa

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Théodore Géricault (in the Louvre now)
Romanticism movement painting
Wreck of a French frigate with

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Triumph of Death

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Unknown artist 
Gothic wall-sized painting
Death attacking helpless people
Arrows protrude from necks of victims -- lymphatic nature of bubonic plague
Death comes from east -- Mongol Empire
Painting is on the Black Death.
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Victor Vasnetov

White- Conquest Red- War Black- Famine Pale- Death

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Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken In Jaffa

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Antoine-Jean Gros
Huge Neoclassical canvas painting
First masterpiece of Napoleonic painting
Painter implying that Napoleon’s virtues justifies the horrors of war. Napoleon’s likened to Jesus healing.

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Victim of Fanaticism

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Mykola Pymonenko
Theme of peasant labour
Punishment of a Jewish girl who converted to Christianity and dated an Orthodox boy
Critical of the injustice of life
Condemned autocratic Russian government
Emancipation movement of Russia (on empathy)

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Unnamed mural at Supreme Court

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Jose Clemente Orozco
Mexican Mural Renaissance
Depicts challenges in securing justice
Justice is not doing her job, judges served as servants of the state
The Seven Major Crimes are depicted (rape, homicide, torture etc)

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The Music Lesson

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Johannes Vermeer
Classical& baroque style
Depiction of Dutch culture (wealthy upper class)
Woman is playing the virginal in the painting- delicate sound
Depiction of an woman’s role in society
Slight Caravaggio involved
The Seven Acts of Mercy depicted in a painting in the room

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The Cardsharps

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Caravaggio
Theatrical style (Baroque movement)
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La Horde

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Wolfgang Beltracci
Oil on linen
Forged painting in the style of Max Ernst
White paint containing titanium got him busted (Heinrich Campendonk’s time did not have titanium paint)
Max Ernst: Dada movement

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Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

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Jan Van Eyck
Flemish painter (Netherlandish Renaissance)
Photorealism(uses optical projection devices,
Record of the rank and social status of subjects
Arnolfini hold his wife’s hand in his left hand, symbolising left-handed marriage (marriage of unequals)
Possibly a painting of his Brother instead.

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Hustler

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Arthur Sarnoff
Drew dogs playing pool— inspiration from Dogs Playing Poker by Coolidge
Surrealism

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Humans Of New York

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Brandon Stanton
Syrian refugee crisis
Contemporary art

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Dropping a Han Dynasty

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Ai Wei Wei
Contemporary art (performance art)
Three photos of him showing his performance –dropping a Han Dynasty urn
Artistic consultant of Bird Nest
Politically dissendent person– detained for 11 months (house arrest)

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Diary of an Empty City

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Liu Xiaodong
Chinese Neo-Realism
Sense of magical realism
Ordos, Inner Mongolia– metropolis but only 20000 residents
One of the richest areas from one of the poorest
Paints spontaneously from pictures of people and everyday life

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245 cubic metres

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Santiago Sierra
German inviting and symbolically gassing people using car fumes in synagogue (simulating gas chamber)
Past projects has highlighted the power of money, exploitation of the poor

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The Wait

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Edward Kienholz
Assemblage sculpture (conceptual art)
Poignancy of passing time on elderly
Woman awaiting death

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Project Dust

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Brother Nut (Wang Renzheng)
Performance art movement
Vacuum cleaning the air of Beijing

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Dismaland

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Banksy
Satirical street art contains dark humour
Stenciling technique
Apocalyptic theme park – twist on Disneyland
“Lawyers from Walt Disney are banned”

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Little Monsters

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Flora Borsi
Distorted faces of women, dramatic lighting
Surrealism
Digital manipulation

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Hagi Ware

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Japanese Wabi Sabi 
Originates from Zen Buddhism
Wabi - aesthetic of the people 
Sabi - the bloom of time 
Beauty and serenity comes with age
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The Captives

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Michelangelo
The awakening slave, the young slave, the bearded slave, the Atlas slave sculptures
Neo-Platonism
Struggle of huMs to free themselves from MATERIAL TRAPPINGS
Labelled “faciebat” to indicate nonfinito status