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| architectural looking painting of the backs of people ascending a staircase. |
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| Oskar Schlemmer, Bauhaus Stairway, 1932 |
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| Big, boxy building with windows all over one side, very gray in its colors. |
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| Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Building, Dessau, 1925-26 |
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| Looks like metal waffles, fun manipulation of shadows with strange shapes, thin and silvery. |
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| László Moholy-Nagy, Light-Space Modulator, 1922-30 |
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| Metal barebones frame of a chair with black cloth stretched tight to form a rectangle shapes seat. |
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| Marcel Breuer, Armchair, Model B3, 1928 |
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| Nude that looks like a cartoon, melting, falling all over herself. Mouth goes U: |
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| Pablo Picasso, Large Nude in Armchair, 1929 |
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| Clothes iron with metal spikes all over the flat side. |
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| Primary colors blurred and faded to form a window looking out over Paris, watched by a man with two faces and a cat. |
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| Marc Chagall, Paris Through the Window, 1913 |
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| Long shadows and extreme perspective, art style of European Ico box art. |
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| Giorgio de Chirico, Melancholy and the Mystery of the Street, 1914 |
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| Large elephant pot machine of steel, vacuum cleaner, could be anything but big and grey and round with a tube. |
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| Photo frame with a house and a gate, people on the ground, one on the roof. Emerges from the painting and onto the frame. |
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| Max Ernst, Two Girls Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924 |
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| An abstract shape painting abstract shapes. |
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| Max Ernst, Surrealism and Painting, 1942 |
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| Melting clocks on an empty horizon, one dead tree and rock faces in the background. |
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| Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 |
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| The same lion's face painted a half dozen times on various white rocks, at various levels of completion. |
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| Salvador Dali, Accommodations of Desire, 1929 |
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| Rene Magritte, Treachery of Images, 1928 |
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| A perfect painting of the sky, placed on an easel, in front of a window of the sky. No seam. |
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| Rene Magritte, The Human Condition, 1933 |
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| Black bg, dark ground, and a strange, small dog barking at a crescent moon, with a ladder on the left. |
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| Joan Miro, Dog Barking at Moon, 1926 |
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| An intensive field full of black shapes connected by black lines with occasional bright, primary colors, on a brown background. |
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| Joan Miro, The Poetess, 1943 |
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| American painting that looks like a Monet piece from thirty years earlier. View of the water, a harbor, from the street. |
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| Robert Henri, West 57th, 1902 |
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| Back of a woman's head, going through a haircut, with an open window showing this to the world, as the world passes by outdoors, some noticing. |
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| Joan Sloan, Hairdresser's Window, 1907 |
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| New York neighborhood filling the streets, by a house's steps, with laundry hanging between the buildings above. Crowded. |
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| George Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913 |
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| Photo of those on a boat, those off a boat, and the bridge inbetween. Crowded. |
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| Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907 |
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| Merger of streets and buildings, very centrally focused. Has a gold star in a brown circle near bottom. |
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| John Marin, Lower Manhatten, 1922 |
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| Looks like bridge suspension, perfect in its upwards curves to a central strength. Looks architectural. |
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| Joseph Stella, Brooklyn Bridge, 1922 |
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| View of tops of simplistic, yellow-gold representations of buildings, looking down into black streets below. |
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| Charles Sheeler, Church Street El, 1920 |
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| Giant gold fives expanding in front of red squares. |
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| Charles Demuth, I Saw Figure 5 in Gold, 1928 |
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| Folds and ripples of blue and pink pastels, like a river around a rock, or a waterfall. |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe, Music Pink and Blue II, 1919 |
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| Giant black building, straight narrow and tall, with high contrast white lights in it, and lit fins on top. |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe, Radiator Building, Night, 1927 |
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| Extreme warped perspective of a cowboy farm town scene that looks like it's from Oaklahoma! the Musical. |
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| Thomas Hart Benton, The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, 1934 |
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| Classic, farmer (with pitchfork) and wife in front of an old house, portrait. |
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| Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930 |
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| Rolling hills with sun softly hitting at twilight, houses scattered across the horizon, very orange and green. |
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| Grant Wood, Stone City, Iowa, 1930 |
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| Desolated looking woman with two children on either side, a photo, dust bowl/depression era. |
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| Dorthea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936 |
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| Silhouettes to represent black history, purple image, figures raising out of chained hands and reaching towards factory on horizon. |
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| Aaron Douglas, Aspirations, 1936 |
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| Inside of a train, dark, subdued colors, browns, and crowded with solid colors. |
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| Jacob Lawrence, Going Home, 1946 |
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| Steps of neighborhood in New York, exaggerated black face. |
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| Palmer Hayden, Midsummer Night in Harlem, 1938 |
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| Blue and yellow piece, with a large hill being ascended by silhouettes, over a pharoh, to a city. |
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| Lois Mailou Jones, The Ascent of Ethiopa, 1932 |
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| Cut up pieces of material to form a traditional Mexican outfit sitting with a gun out in front of some mountains. |
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| Diego Rivera, Zapatista Landscape: The Guerrilla, 1915 |
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| Man hunched over, with a huge basket of pink flowers tied to his back with a yellow cloth, wearing white clothes and a sombrero, a woman helping him. |
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| Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1924 |
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| Giant mural full of machines and workers, crowded with both metal tubes and bodies. |
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| Diego Rivera, Detroit Institute of the Arts Murals, Detroit, MI, 1932-33 |
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| Exaggerated painting of an old Mexican woman with two children clinging to her and hiding their faces. |
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| David Alfaro Siqueiros, Peasant Mother, 1929 |
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| Mural on a wall of a man on a cross, bird overhead, Aztec temple behind. |
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| David Alfaro Siqueiros, Tropical America, Los Angeles,1932 |
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| Hispanic woman in white bondage, her spine broken, and nails inserted all over her body in front of a desolate horizon. |
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| Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait, 1944 |
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| Hispanic monobrow woman with a baby's body, nursing from another dark skinned woman. Proportions are way out of sync. |
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| Frida Kahlo, My Nurse and I, 1937 |
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| Looks like a magic eye, paint splatter everywhere, only recognizable pattern is it's slightly darker in a 45 degree south east line down the left. Yellows, blacks, whites. |
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| Jackson Pollock, Number 1 (Lavender Mist), 1950 |
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| Black and white splatter on the left, circle of earth tones splattered on the right. |
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| Jackson Pollock, Portrait of a Dream, 1953 |
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| Looks like a ton of tiny white inscribings, mostly within cube boundaries, on a black background. Very detailed and almost Aztec in appearance. |
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| Lee Krasner, Composition, 1959 |
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| Horrible deformation of a woman, composed out of a monstrosity of paint. Looks like a mess, represents post-atomic-bomb woman. |
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| Willem de Kooning, Woman I, 1950-52 |
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| Blue paint splatter, then white, then almost a brown road on a green hill with a yellow sky. |
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| Willem de Kooning, Merrit Parkway, 1956 |
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| Portrait of a man, sloppy edges, dark and brown colors with some whites, reclining in a chair, with a hallway. |
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| Elaine de Kooning, Harold Rosenberg, 1956 |
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| Giant black stripes across a white background, straight and thick but in every direction. |
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| Franz Kline, Mahoning, 1956 |
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| Very wide vertical black lines on a white background, separated by giant black circles. |
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| Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 1951 |
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| Green rectangle covering the canvas, filling it, with a small, this, blue rectangle crossing its middle. |
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| Mark Rothko, Green on Blue, 1954 |
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| Wide red piece, represents what man first saw, zips down the middle in various areas. |
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| Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950-51 |
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| Red spot, black splotch, white background. Looks like a domino. |
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| Adolph Gottlieb, Blast, 1951 |
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| Yellow, black and white on a tan background: almost looks like a fountain/wave in the world of camouflage. |
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| Clyfford Still, Painting J, 1947 |
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| Black and white image of the inside of a barn, ox and horse, topless woman with dead child, all screaming, all chaos. |
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| Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 |
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| Long stick figure of a black bronze statue, making a long step forwards. |
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| Alberto Giacometti, Man Striding, 1947 |
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| Big, fat, wide, flat pale woman on a black background, filling the frame, nude, facing the viewer. |
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| Jean Dubuffet, Corps de Dame, 1950 |
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| Looks like a bridge in front of a black figure, a corpse hanging, a headless man with umbrella, all black in front of a reserved, but dark red background. |
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| Francis Bacon, Painting, 1946 |
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| Black smudges of paint all over a white background, not clear lines as much as it is a mess. |
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| Pierre Soulages, Painting, 1952 |
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| Man climbing through mud, struggling, in his underwear. |
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| Kazou Shiraga, Challenging Mud, 1955 |
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| Three expanding blue shapes from a red center on a tan background, all washed out and almost pastel. Looks like an abstract boquet. |
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| Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952 |
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| Rainbow of lines forming a valley around white space, making an inverted triangle in the middle. |
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| Morris Louis, Beta Kappa, 1961 |
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| Green circle, white circle, yellow circle, and blue circle in the middle. "Not a target" |
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| Kenneth Noland, A Warm Reverie, 1962 |
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| Three white canvases on which shadows were cast. |
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| Robert Rauschenberg, White Painting, 1951 |
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| Robert Rauschenberg, Bed, 1955 |
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| Dirty looking American flag, newsprint composure. |
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| Jasper Johns, Flag, 1954-55 |
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| Red background with blue and yellow target board. |
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| Jasper Johns, Target with Plaster Casts, 1955 |
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| Blue, very squished car, with lovers in the backseat and lots of bottles of beer. |
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| Edward Kienholz, Backseat Dodge '38, 1964 |
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| Alley full of tires, covering the ground, piling up everywhere. |
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| Bought a store, then replaced all items with exact replicas made of papier-mâché, and sold them all for the same prices as the original items. |
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| Claes Oldenburg, The Store, 1961 |
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| Magazine cutouts of ideals of American culture, composed into a montage American home. |
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| Richard Hamilton, Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes so Different, So Appealing, 1956 |
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| Airplane shooting down another, comic style. |
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| Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam!, 1963 |
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| Woman disappearing under water, crying and screaming for help, comic book styling. |
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| Roy Lichtenstein, Drowning Girl, 1964 |
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| Giant swirl of yellow paint, comic style. |
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| Roy Lichtenstein, Yellow Brushstroke, 1965 |
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| Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Can, 1962 |
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| Dogs attacking people, silkscreen prints. |
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| Andy Warhol, Race Riot, 1963 |
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| Airplane covered in other images, spanning the walls of an exhibit as wallpaper. |
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| James Rosenquist, F-111, 1965 |
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