SELECTED ARTWORKS
Egypt. “Palette of King Narmer,” Early Dynastic Period
http://tinyurl.com/25lpnve
Greek Vase paintings. “Death of Sarpedon” (515 BCE)
http://tinyurl.com/292d9ou
Greek Vase Paintings. “Artemis Slaying Actaeon” (470 BCE)
http://tinyurl.com/24fhv5f
Greek. “Gallic Chieftain Killing Himself and His Wife” Hellenistic Period.
http://tinyurl.com/33v6qf5
“Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace” from the Illustrated Scrolls of the Events of the Heiji Era (Late 13th Century)
http://tinyurl.com/39re53s
http://tinyurl.com/39hqrqd
“Bayeux Tapestry: Battle of Hastings” Norman-Anglo Saxon embroidery from Canterbury, Kent England or Normandy, France. c.1066-82
http://tinyurl.com/2v37s2g
http://tinyurl.com/3x8vw3c
“Durga as Slayer of the Buffalo Demon”, Rock-cut relief, Mid 7th century Tamil Nadu, India
http://tinyurl.com/26w2gzd
Tina Modotti. “Elegance and Poverty” (1928)
http://tinyurl.com/2e48g94
Tina Modotti. “Mexican Sombrero with Hammer and Sickle”
http://tinyurl.com/27qy6sj
Diego Rivera. “Arsenal Ministry of Public Education”
http://tinyurl.com/342cm59
Pablo Picasso. “Guernica” 1936
http://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp
Jacob Lawrence. “The Migration of the Negro No. 23 -- And the migration spread” (1941)
http://tinyurl.com/3y53vyd
Barbara Kruger
http://tinyurl.com/39aet7h
Barbara Kruger
http://tinyurl.com/33qyh52
Barbara Kruger
http://tinyurl.com/34whvq8
Gabriele Basilico. “Bouncing Skull” 2007, (video still)
http://tinyurl.com/3y3rhsa
Banksy
http://tinyurl.com/35wq3jy
Banksy
http://tinyurl.com/35joo3b
Nancy Spero. “Maypole: Take No Prisoners”, (2007)
http://tinyurl.com/33cfbuf
Protest Art & Feminist Critique
Political violence as a figurative art form. Nancy Spero’s career has been a statement against the pervasive abuse of power, militarism, and sexual predation. A feminist artist preoccupied with myth and the repetition of eternal themes within the context of contemporary social and economic history. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and power from its narrative of anxiety, suffering, pain of existence from recent events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the Holocaust, atrocities of the Vietnam War, China’s Cultural revolution and present day Iraq as seen from a feminist critique and sense of democratic social justice. A central theme of vulnerability and the fragile pervades.
Political violence as a figurative art form. Nancy Spero’s career has been a statement against the pervasive abuse of power, militarism, and sexual predation. A feminist artist preoccupied with myth and the repetition of eternal themes within the context of contemporary social and economic history. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and power from its narrative of anxiety, suffering, pain of existence from recent events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the Holocaust, atrocities of the Vietnam War, China’s Cultural revolution and present day Iraq as seen from a feminist critique and sense of democratic social justice. A central theme of vulnerability and the fragile pervades.
Sophie Calle. "Take Care of Yourself," 2007
http://artintelligence.net/review/?p=147
“The letter was allegedly sent to Calle by lover jilting her. Whether the story is true or not is not clear and, perhaps, doesn’t especially matter because the letter is transformed into a work of conceptual art via processes of translation, transposition and permutation. Calle took the alleged ‘dear jane’ letter to 107 female professionals commissioning them to interpret the missive according to their profession. From one point of view Calle’s Take Care of Yourself is a triumph of reason over the capriciousness of emotion. And this action gains in significance because it is a woman who is exercising the power of her reason over the rather pathetic emotional confusion of the male who sent the letter. It is certainly the case that Calle has turned the letter, real or not, into a work of art. The message of Take Care of Yourself is not simply philosophical-conceptual it is also significantly political. Calle mustered a phalanx of female professionals to deconstruct the offending letter and this phalanx represents the still changing structure of society in which men no longer have exclusive access to social power. The squirming writer of the letter is crushed under 107 potent heels.”
Charles Gaines. “Explosion #15”, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/33h2kvd
Romuald Hazoumé. “Dream,” 2007
http://tinyurl.com/3xs64mq
Shepard Fairey
http://tinyurl.com/25gndeg
Shepard Fairey
http://tinyurl.com/28xuqg7
Shepard Fairey
http://tinyurl.com/2cg34pr
Shepard Fairey
http://tinyurl.com/3affahj
