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"My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love" 1990. Dmitri Vrubel
This is a famous piece of graffiti work that is on the Berlin Wall. It is the historical famous kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker at a ceremony that had been held at the foundation of the German Democratic Republic. It is a reflection of the continuation of the politics from the cold war and the way things have changed within time. -
"Untitled (billboard of an empty bed)" 1991. Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Felix Gonzalez-Torres was known for leaving his work as untitled. He is known for the language of conceptual and minimalist art. This particular piece is a bed of rumpled sheets and pillows that had been laid on in an unmade bed. The center of this piece is a form of depression that falls onto each pillow that covey’s a profound sense of intimacy. The piece is that it is shown in a public environment to show the truth about being intimate and it not exactly always being a private form. -
"The Kiss" 1990. Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt focuses while creating this piece was the idea of bringing tenderness and passion between two people into one picture. The colorful love scene of two faces embracing one another locking a form of intimacy while the rest of the painting fades into a shimmery aspect. Klimt is known for his decorative style in his paintings. -
"Abstract Painting" 1990. Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter joined two sections of canvas and the characteristics by horizontal forms. The title itself is implying that there is no exact clear representation element of this painting. But the thick layers of color including red, white, and a burnt orange suggest that an original image that was once there became a blur. -
"The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" 1991. Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst was one of the first young British artists who accomplished the art scene during his time in the UK for his fame to make its way to the United States. Hirst’s goal in making art was to push towards speaking out as an animal rights activist. He created his art through the mindset of the suffrage people are putting animals through. This piece was based on the idea of aquariums and the way that humanity puts sea animals into small boxes for us to view for our enjoyment. -
"Pharmacy" 1992. Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst has always seen medicine cabinets as human bodies as well as cityscapes or any form of human civilization. Hirst has a reoccurring theme of using some sort of medicine or drug within his art. Hirst goal was to create a form of a temple that is compelling to humans, to him, medicine provides a belief system which is appearing to be seductive yet also illusory. -
"Light Sentence" 1992. Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum’s work revolved around exploring the themes of homes and the displacement of the perspective of the Palestine exile. Hatoum uses common domestic subjects that are to be seen through a closer perspective to reveal its qualities. -
"Loving Care" 1993. Janine Antoni
The purpose of creating “Loving Care” was to express the conjured actions of a form of expressive marks within the abstract expressionist. Janine Antoni had bought a box of Loving Care Hair Dye and then proceeded to mop the floor with her hair soaked in the dye. She wanted to feel the connection with the expression of the concept of loving care. To be cared for, to be loved for. -
"La DS" 1993. Gabriel Orozco
Gabriel Orozco was interested in creating art that perceived his thoughts on what would happen if space and reality were to combine. This particular piece of work includes a 1950’s the French automobile, this car was a symbol at the time of the future of inventions and progress that is yet to come. He mixed the rise of the digital age that was taking place in the 90s with the conception of reality from a car that was built in the past. -
"Admission Button" 1993. Daniel J Martinez
The 90s were a time to speak up on racism, sexism, just about anything that was political artists were making a point to make a statement and to be heard. Daniel J Martinez believed in saying the things that others may be biased about. It wasn’t about how good or bad his work might be, it was about getting the message out there. -
"Barbie Surgery" 1993. Barbie Liberation Organization
In the 90s Barbie was the most popular doll for little girls to be playing with. Although Barbie was a fantastic toy for children, everyone was over the impossible feminine ideal that Barbie had represented. The idea that Barbie was casting onto children was the obsession over the way that they look. After making this piece of art speaking out against this issue, Barbie then changed their message to things more subversive such as different things children could look up such as careers. -
"Cremaster 4" 1994. Matthew Barney
Cremaster 4 was made through an eight-year period of time that consists of parts from five feature-length films. Barney also included companion works that had a span from almost every medium of visual art during the time period of those eight years. -
"Nice White Lady" 1995. Adrian Piper
Adrian Piper designed art to make people uncomfortable, her aim was to expose the racial divide with the hopes of building a bridge from one to the other. Piper wanted her work to change the way that people thought. She wanted it to help people to stop being racist and view others as people as well. She created this self-portrait using a crayon to photograph a woman looking directly into the eyes of her audience for a message to be heard. -
"Nature Study" 1996. Louise Bourgeois
The couching position of this headless dog-like creature that has a type of human back and multiple breasts is a representation of power and aggression. Yet the smooth-hairless surface of the creature is a form of vulnerability. The six breasts is a form of nurturing role as a mother. Bourgeoi’s sculpture had been inspired by the eighteenth-century marble by F.A. Franzoni, Throne of a Priestess of Ceres, which is a two winged sphinxes that is guarding a throne. -
"Truisms and Survival Series" 1996. Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer is an American Conceptual artist who is known for her text-based public art projects. Holzer explores the language that is used between people as a form of communication that turns into a controlling and concealment environment. She speaks on the idea of consent between individuals. -
"Fried Eggs" 1996. Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas is an artist who had emerged in the 90s, her work usually consisted of visual puns, and bawdy humor and she uses photography to execute her ideas. In this particular piece she decided to go the route of self-portrait to speak out on the way British men sexualize the female body by using vulgar slang. -
"Fat Grandson" 1996. Liu Xiaodong
By the time art made its way to the 90s it had come a long way from what was once seen as the perfect classical art that was once taking over the art industry. Lui Xiaodong was intrigued by the idea of forgetting what we have seen people as when they were put together and beautiful in paintings from the past and focused on the unattractive glory of who people truly are. -
"The Holy Virgin Mary" 1996. Chris Ofili
Chris Ofili’s painting is a representation of the black Madonna that is decorated with elephant manure. Ofili’s Mary reveals her wearing a blue cape parted to reveal a breast that had been made of dried and varnished elephant dung which caused a riot to the museum the exhibit of young British artists that it was in. The mayor at the time, Rudolph Giuliani, felt it was sexually portraying the Virgin Mary herself and called it sick and offensive. Ofili was then sued by the state of New York. -
"Stereoscope" 1999. William Kentridge
William Kentridge Focused on using his drawings to tackle the issues with political and personal issues that were going on within the world. He used charcoal to speak out on the boundaries that were being created between the poor and wealthy. He pushed against the medium to represent the national themes of the blue collard. -
"99 cen"t 1999. Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky believed in the idea of capturing the modern lifestyle. Gursky wanted to show the individualism of the little things such as supermarkets, windows on buildings, or even the islands in the sea. Towards the end of career, he made the point to leave out all of the things that surround his life from the day to day basis that bothered him. So, when he captured the idea of painting the inside of a supermarket, it was something that brought him a sense of peace rather than irritation.
