Augusta Savage

• Harlem Renaissance
• taught at Harlem art centers, funded by WPA
• Rosenwald grant winner, travelled to Haiti to create art

Augusta Savage, La Citadelle (Freedom)

• About Haiti

Pablita Velarde, Buffalo Dance

• commissioned by WPA to do series on Native Americans
• did series on Puebla
• Bandelier National Monument in Santa Fe (WPA commission)
• documented rituals and traditions

Elizabeth Catlett, Negro es Bello II, 1969

• abstract and cylture
• lived in Mexico, influened by Mexican muralist movementy
• inspired by black power movement, police brutality

Elizabeth Catlett, Mujer Reclinada, 1959

• influence of ancient Mexican and pre-Columbian traditions

Elizabeth Catlett, Louis Armstrong

• commssion for city of New Orleans
• worked at Dillard Univeristy, head of art department
• Grant Wood's (American Gothic) only black student at University of Iowa

Hale Woodruff, Mutiny of the Amistad

• taught in AUC and NYU
• put collection together or CAU
• gave awards for finets black art
• people sent in art for the award and ammassed large collection for the AUC

Elizabeth Catlett, Harriet Tubman

• in the Style of Kathe Kollwitz Black Anna

Elizabeth Catlett, Terra Cotta head

• influenced by Francisco Zuniga, mexican sculptor, based on pre-columbian art
• influenced by Ernst Barlach, German expressionist sculptor

Elizabeth Catlett, Target

• about police brutality in 1970

Dorothy Dehner, Scaffold

• totemic structures that referenced non Western Art
• abstract expressionism

Louis Bourgeois, Femme-Maison

• French, sensous body parts, phalic symbols

Louise Nevelson, Totem II, 1959

• cut and shaped objects into one structure and painted it 1 color to look like city buildings
• Russian, architecture, dada

Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm No 30

• drip or action paintings or gestural abstratcion
• abstract expresionism- out of NYC
• paint mixed with bodily fluids
• about showing the process or art

Helen Frankenthaler, Mountain and Sea

• colorfield= branch of abstract expressions
• about showing the process or art
• staining technique

Lee Kransner, Cat Imahe

• colorfield (american movement)

Bridget Riley, Winter Palace

• Op art- British movement

Marisol, Self Portrait, 1961-2

• born in Paris
• appropriated Jasper Johns
• influenced by pre-columbian, surrealsism
• Pop art
• looking at consumer culture

Niki de Saint-Phalle, SHE-A Cathedral

• child like, monstrous
• critique of sexualization and objectification of women
• inside included rooms and video

Niki de Saint-Phalle, Nana

• refusal to men's fantasies

Louis Bourgeois, Little Girl (Fillette)

• known for phalic symbols and spiders
• parents were weavers
• denied phalic symbols

Eva Hesse, Accession II

• minimalist
• visual reduction, showing the process of making

Faith Ringgold, Die

• From American people seroes
• story quilts, black power movemeny
• taking craft and elevating to fine art with encorportation of text
• appropriates Picasso's Guernica

Betye Saar, Liberation of Aunt Jemima

• black feminist art
• black power movement
• broom in one hand, gun in the other

Aaron Douglass, from Emperor Jones Series

• loosely based on Toussaint L'Overture play
• leading visual artist of Harlem Renaissance
• known for murals, book illustrations

Lois Mailou Jones, Les Fetiches

• taught at Howard
• Spent 20+ years in Pirs
• from Boston and took art classes at Boston Fine Art School
• Rosenwald grant winner, went to Haiti

• UK
• protest exclusion from major art exhibitions

• Protest exclusion from "Art and Technology: at LA Co. Musuem of Art

Nancy Spero, Codex Artaud

• from latin word Caudex meaing trunk of tree
• pieces in a book form
• about historical masculinaty, and Western notions of text and civilization
• American, feminist art

Magdalena Abakanowicz, Backs

• humaniod figures
• about the holocaust
• made of resin, linen, and burlap to look like decay and portray human suffering
• Polish, feminist
• backss represent submission
• lonliness in crowd

Miriam Shapiro, Anatomy of a Kimono

• femmages= form of collage and assemblage, photo montage
• canadian, feminist
• pattern and decoration movement= use of fabric, elevating craft to fine art

Adrian Piper, Catalysis III

• performance art, conceptual art
• themes of racial pasing
• upper middle class black woman
• intervention on what was seen as socially accepable
• feces story

Judy Chigago, Dinner Party

• quinessential Feminist art
• 39 dinner plates for women in history
• fabric, ceramics, assorted craft traditions electaed
• 99 additional names of women in history

Sylvia Sleigh, Turkish Bath

• portrait of family and friends
• rejecting odalisue tradition
• appropriates Ingres, "Turkish Bath"

Alice Neel, Pregnant Maria

• challenges odalisque tradition

Monica Sjoo, With God Giving Birth

• british artist
• themes of Goddeses
• appropriates asian and pre-columbian art
• women's liberation

Ana Mendieta, Silueta series

• cuban
• earthworks, imprint of her body
• murdered by husband and becomes rallying cry and feminist cult figure

Judy Baca, the Great Wall of Los Angeles

• longest mural in world
• tells history of LA
• based of of Mexican Muralist tradition

Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, In Mourning and Rage

• protest of rape culture and insensitivity of violence in media
• feminist performance art

• art based on race, gender, ethnicity and sexual identity, 1980s
• deciding to move away from the canon
• fighting back against set idea of modernism
• post-modernism= rejection of male artist "heros" like Picasso

Barbera Kruger, Your Gaze Hits the Side of my face

• picture generation= women artist who manipulated media and ads as critique on women's bodies

Jenny Holzer, Selection of Truisms

• Truisms= short slogans or sayings that make a political statment, short punch of an ad
• feminist and conceptual art
• posted all over cities
• picture generation

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still no ^

• dressed up to shoot photos of her self like they are stills from a film
• part of the picture generation
• film noir= old detective moveies

Sherrie Levine, After Walker Evans

• Walker Evans was a WPA photographer
• Levin appropriates him
• quintessential post-modernism

Lubaina Himid, Between the Two My Heart is Balenced

• raised in Britain with white Mother
• forms Black british art movement
• exhibited at Thin Black Line 1989 first major exhibit for black women artists

Sonia Boyce, Missionary Position No. 2

• from Lay Back, Keep Quiet, and Think About What Made Britain So Good
• critique of colonialisma and british empire

Sutapa Biswas, Housewives with Steak Knives

• influenced by Hindu art

Ingrid Pollard, Pastoral Interludes

• talking about role of slavery building massive country estates
• parents from Caribbean, she was born and raisned in England
• wanted to justify her existance in England

the Decade Sho2, 1990

• showcased multicuturalism
• showed at 3 museums
• featured art from American from all ethnic, racial, and sexual backgrounds

Jaune Quick To See Smith, Site: Canyon de Chelly

• native american art
• organized exhibitios of Native women art
• highlighted Native issues

Alison Saar, Love Porion no 9

• Daughter of Betye Saar
• made fetish art from found objects

Catherine Opie, Bo

• dealt with gay leather scene

Adrian Piper, Vanilla Nightmares No 2

• representation of women in newspaper ads 

Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez Pena, Teo Undiscovered Amerindians Visit

• performance art
• protest celebration of Coliumbus
• satirical look at exoticism of Native Americans

Paula Rego, Betrothal

• Appropriates William Hogarth Marriaga A La Mode to make a statement on Abortion in portugal

Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993

Faith Ringgold, The Wedding: Lover's Quilt #1

story quilts, text to document oral tradition and elevate art

Maya Lin, Vietnam War Memorial

• was student when awarded commision in competition
• 58,000 names written on wall

Guerilla Girls

protesting exclusion from Met and MoMa

Mary Magdelena Compos-Pons

drew from Santeria

large scale polaroids

Shirin Neshat

Iranian filmmakter

highly choreographed films on women in muslim culture

Tracey Emin, the Perfect Place To Grow

domesticity, beach house, father was a garndener

YBA= young british artist popularized by purchases of Charles Sauchie

Tracey Emin, Bed

very personal, reminiscent of talk show confessionals

Marlene Dumas, the White Disease

born in South Africa under aparthied

about violence of apartheid

themes of death and children and fear

Lalla Essaydi, Converging Territories No 30

morrocan artist

text from qu'ran

reversing idea of silenced islamic women

Shirin Neshat, the Last Word

examines relation ship of Islamic women and culture

Rineke Dijkstra, Olivier Quartier Monclair (Dijobouti 2003)

• series of everyday people from around the world in outdated clothing or clothing from their youth

Kara Walker, Gone:....

• critique of mainstream in violence against black women
• sillouettes
• based on racial stereotypes like samba

Kara Walker, A Subtlety

made of sugar and molases

Kara Walker, A Subtlety

lawn jockey reference

Ella Gallagher, DeLuxe

sambo figures

looks like abstration

statement on race

Ella Gallagher, Mr Terrific

skin bleaching ad, she defaced them

Wangechi Mutu, Hunt Bury Flee

digitally manipulated images about scrutiny of women's bodies

Mickalene Thomas, Baby I Am ready

70's interior design

playing tribute to black power aesthetic

look back at odalisque

Seydou Keita Sisters, Two Great Ladies

modern portraits to send home to families to show success

Jackie Ormes, Torchy Brown

first black female syndicated cartoonist