ART 100 Understanding Visual Culture

Marcel DZAMA, Untitled, 2000. Ink and gouache on paper

Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair, 1925 photograph

Johannes VermeerGirl with a Pearl Earringc. 1665-1666oil on canvasMauritshuis, The Hague

visitors to the Frick Gallery photographing the work, summer 2014

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Wangechi MUTUborn Nairobi, Kenya, 1972

came to US in the 1990s

BFA Cooper Union, NYC

MFA, Yale

lives/works Brooklyn, NY

large-scale collages pieced together from found imagery

Wangechi MUTUPin-up2001ink, acrylic, and collage on mylar

Wangechi Mutu (Kenyan, b. 1972). Riding Death in My Sleep, 2002. Ink, collage on paper, 60 x 44 inches (152.4 x 111.76 cm). Collection of Peter Norton, New York. © Wangechi Mutu

“To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.“

Paul KLEE (1879-1940)

Figurines, Hamangia culture, southeastern Europec. 5000 BCEterracotta, H: 4 ½ inches

Royal Death MaskMycenae, Greecec. 1550 BCEgold10 ¼ inches

"Rome-Capitole-StatueConstantin" by Jean-Christophe BENOIST - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5

Constantine the Greatc. AD 312 marblefragments of seated outdoor sculpturenearly 40 ft highnow in the Capitoline Museum, Rome

Door guardian (dvarapala) with a bow

c. 4th centuryPakistan, ancient region of GandharaStuccoH. 18 in. (45.7 cm), W. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm)

Marcel DZAMAname is pronounced (Zah-mah)

born 1974, Winnipeg, Canada

drawings, constructions and films

studied art at University of Manitoba

now lives/works in Brooklyn

Marcel Dzama, If you can't bring good news, then don't bring me any, 2012. Ink, gouache, graphite, and collage on paper.

Marcel DZAMAEight Strong Winds, 2005.50x34 inches

Malala will have her revenge, 2013, Ink, gouache, and graphite on piano scroll, 22 1/2 x 32 inches (57.2 x 81.3 cm)

Marcel Dzama, Grand presentiments of what must come, 2012.Ink, watercolor, and graphite on piano scroll, 7 scrollsframed: 51 1/2 x 82 3/4 inches

Daniel Kornrumpf, Focal Length (detail), 2009. embroidery on linen, 42" x 36"

Daniel Kornrumpf, Austin Texas (detail), 2009, hand embroidered on canvas, 42" x 36”

Daniel KORNRUMPFBrooklyn Bobby, 2007embroidery on linen, 50" x 44”

Daniel Kornrumpf, Brooklyn Bobby, 2007, hand embroidered on linen, 50" x 44”

Pierre Huyghe, Chantier Barbès-Rochechouart Billboard, Paris 1994

“The attitude of the artist is more important than the content of the creation. It’s life’s struggles, not necessarily artistic skills, that touch people. The process of each life struggle is what we call art, regardless of its form.”

– Liu Bolin

LIU Bolin

• born Shandong province in 1973

• BFA, Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his

• MFA, from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001.

• His best-known works are from his "Hiding in the City" series; photographic works that began as performance art in 2005.