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Name: Number 1, 1950
Date: 1950
Period/Style: Abstract Expressionism
Artist: Jackson Pollock
Location: United States
Material/Technique: Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas
Description: Pollock's paintings emphasize the creative process. His mural-size canvases consist of rhythmic drips, splatters, and dribbles of paint that envelop viewers, drawing them into a lacy spider web.
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Name: The Bay
Date: 1963
Period/Style: Post-Painterly Abstraction, Color-field painting
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler
Location: United States
Material/Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Description: Color-field painters like Frankenthaler poured paint onto unprimed canvas, allowing the pigments to soak into the fabric. Her works underscore that a painting is simply pigment on a flat surface.
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Name: Mercenaries IV
Date: 1980
Period/Style: Social and Political Art
Artist: Leon Golub
Location: United States
Material/Technique: Acrylic on linen
Description: The violence of contemporary life is the subject of Golub's huge paintings. Here, five mercenaries loom over the viewer, instilling a feeling of peril. The rough textures reinforce the raw imagery.
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Name: Meat Joy
Date: 1964
Period/Style: Performance Art
Artist: Carolee Schneemann
Location: United States
Material/Technique: Performance at Judson Church, New York City
Description: In her performances, Schneemann transformed the nature of Performance art by introducing a feminist dimension through the use of her body (often nude) to challenge traditional gender roles.
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Name: The Walk Home
Date: 1984 - 1985
Period/Style: Neo-Expressionism
Artist: Julian Schnabel
Location: United States
Material/Technique: Oil, plates, copper, bronze, fiberglass, and Bondo on wood.
Description: Schnabel's paintings recall the work of the gestural abstractionists, but he employs an amalgamation of media, bringing together painting, mosaic, and low-relief sculpture.
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Name: Tropical Garden II
Date: 1957 - 1959
Period/Style: References Dada and Surrealist works
Artist: Louise Nevelson
Location: United States
Material/Technique: Wood painted black
Description: The monochromatic color scheme unifies the diverse sculpted forms and found objects in Nevelson's "walls" and creates a mysterious field of shapes and shadows that suggest magical environments.
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Name: Mas o Menos (More or Less)
Date: 1964
Period/Style: Post-Painterly Abstraction
Artist: Frank Stella
Location: United States
Material/Technique: Metallic powder in acrylic emulsion on canvas
Description: Stella tried to achieve purity in painting using evenly spaced pinstripes on colored grounds. His canvases have no central focus, no painterly or expressive elements, and no tactile quality.
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Name: No. 14
Date: 1960
Period/Style: Abstract Expressionism
Artist: Mark Rothko
Location: United States
Material/Technique: Oil on canvas
Description: Rothko's chromatic abstractionist paintings -consisting of hazy rectangles of pure color hovering in front of a colored background- are a compositionally simple but compelling visual experience.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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Name: Hall of Mirrors, Amalienburg
Date: Early 18th Century
Period/Style: Rococo
Artist: Francois de Cuvillies
Patron: -
Location: Munich, Germany
Material/Technique: French Style Palace
Description: Designed by a French architect, this circular hall in a German lodge displays the Rococo architectural style at its zenith, dazzling the eye with the organic interplay of mirrors, crystal, and stucco relief.
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