Tuesday, 15 July 2008

top 10 again

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Cubist: 1907): the geometry of naked French ladies.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica (Surrealist: 1937): screaming horse and severed heads.
Umberto
Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (Futurist: 1913): lumpy multi-dimensional walking.
Marcel
Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Futurist: 1912): downhill kaleidoscope.
Vladimir Tatlin,
Monument to the Third International (Russian Constructivism: 1919-20): steel-framed ziggurat
Salvador
Dali, The Persistence of Memory (Surrealist: 1931): limp watches.
Constantin Brancusi,
Bird in Space (1928): smooth and shiny, pointy and skinny.
Robert Smithson,
SpiralJetty (Conceptual Art: 1970): coil of rocks in the water.
Gustav
Klimt, The Kiss (Art Nouveau: 1907-08): sparkly cape.
Marcel
Duchamp, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (Dada: 1915-1923): shiny things on glass.
Marcel Duchamp,
Fountain (Dada: 1917): urinal.
Rene Magritte,
The Human Condition I (Surrealist: 1933): a painting of a painting in a window
Paul Cézanne,
Mont Ste-Victoire (Impressionist: 1904-1906): vague hilly landscape.
Constantin
Brancusi, The Kiss (Transcendentalism: 1908): two lovers fused into a block.
Richard Hamilton,
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? (Pop Art: 1956): cheesy muscle man and stripper.
Willem de Kooning,
Woman I (Abstract Expressionist: 1952): the ugliest picture ever painted ever. In fact, you have to admire the skill with which the artist managed to rid this painting of anything asthetically pleasing.
Max Ernst,
Elephant of the Celebes (Surrealist: 1921): steam powered pachyderm -- or long-necked cow.
Edward Hopper,
Nighthawks (American Realist: 1942): diner, outside looking in.
Henri Matisse,
The Dance (Fauvist: 1910): ring around the rosey.
Max Beckman,
Departure (Expressionist: 1933): king and dungeon

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