"As in certain paintings by Francis Bacon, existential givens were made stubbornly palpable in Guston's pictures. Recurrent images such as a head with a single wide-open eye, wrist-watches, bare light-bulbs, or cigarette butts spoke of bouts...
Collages; Montages; Photographs; Men; Heads (Anatomy); Moral aspects of war; Pessimism
"Henderson is rarely accorded much status in accounts of postwar art but he was a formative influence on members of London's Independent Group, especially [Eduardo] Paolozzi and [Richard] Hamilton. In the late 1940s and 1950s he photographed...
Collages; Montages; Photographs; Men; Heads (Anatomy); Moral aspects of war; Pessimism; Details
"Henderson is rarely accorded much status in accounts of postwar art but he was a formative influence on members of London's Independent Group, especially [Eduardo] Paolozzi and [Richard] Hamilton. In the late 1940s and 1950s he photographed...
"Johns used letters or numbers as a means of reintroducing the signifiers of a collective sign system into a Modernist 'field' previously answerable to subjective judgments of taste. The textures in his drawings in particular are subtly...
Posters; Billboard posters; Billboards; Prints; Lithographs; Planographic prints; Advertisements; Advertising; Exhibition posters; Exhibitions; Art exhibitions; Motion pictures; Erotic films; Erotica; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust;...
Lithograph billboard poster. "Koons followed up this poster with a series of explicit, human-scale, photo-based 'paintings' of the couple having sex. Characteristically, Koons asserted that his concerns were far removed from pornography. He...
Posters; Billboard posters; Billboards; Prints; Lithographs; Planographic prints; Advertisements; Advertising; Exhibition posters; Exhibitions; Art exhibitions; Motion pictures; Erotic films; Erotica; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust;...
Lithograph billboard poster. "Koons followed up this poster with a series of explicit, human-scale, photo-based 'paintings' of the couple having sex. Characteristically, Koons asserted that his concerns were far removed from pornography. He...
"Between 1970 and 1987 Zofia Kulik carried out performances in her native Poland with fellow artist Przenyslaw Kwick. Her more recent photographic works contain a 'time-based' aspect in that, rather than constituting montages made up from...
Performance art; Video recording; Film stills; Men; Artists; Backs (Anatomy); Dance; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Geometry
"Carried out for the camera alone, Nauman's performances of the late 1960s often dealt with the artist's confinement in his studio. This was ironic given that elsewhere art was shrugging off its traditional solipsism and taking to the streets....
"Ad Reinhardt's satirical cartoons, which contrasted sharply with his practice as a painter, dated back to the 1930s and 1940s. His strong Communist sympathies during that period had informed a series of cartoons for left-wing journals. By the...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Maps; Industrialization; Industry; Economic & social conditions; Social aspects; Industrial arbitration; Social classes; Wealth; Poverty; Economic & industrial aspects
"Fabro made his first sculpture in the Italia series in 1968. Dozens of variations followed in subsequent years. Another theme established in 1968 was that of 'Feet'. This involved the artist in producing a series of bizarre sculptural...
"Klein's leap took its place among texts advertising an imaginary 'Theatre of the Void'. The image wittily pitted Klein's artistic apotheosis against other newsworthy material of the day. The first Soviet and American space launches had...
"Klein's leap took its place among texts advertising an imaginary 'Theatre of the Void'. The image wittily pitted Klein's artistic apotheosis against other newsworthy material of the day. The first Soviet and American space launches had...
Mixed media assemblage including: an old wooden door, black velvet, bricks, wooden table, leather stretched over an armature of metal and other material to form a female nude, human hair, gas lamp (bec Auer type), twigs, aluminum, iron, glass,...
Sculpture; Equestrian statues; Metalwork; Portraits; Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Clothing & dress; Hairstyles; Gestures
Bronze equestrian statue of the emperor. "The great Roman emperor is depicted on horseback, but the horse and the entire lower part of the body are missing. The statue is a bronze of a very high quality that was probably made in one of the...
"The progression of drawings here shows the steps used by Benin sculptors." Elements included: clay core; wax; tool; wax rods (drains) and wax cup; layer of fine sand; layer of clay; molten metal; draining wax; finished cast. (Stokstad,...
Architecture; Buildings; Houses; Dwellings; Residential facilities; Paintings; Portrait paintings; Murals; Portraits; Men; Dramatists; Authors; Comedians; People associated with entertainment & sports; Sitting; Clothing & dress; Wreaths;...
"In a niche at the back of the peristyle in the refined Pompeii domus that takes its name from this fresco, this portrait of the Athenian comedian Menander (end of the fourth century B.C.) was painted during the late Julio-Claudian era. The...
