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Portrait of a German Officer
This abstract piece was painted by artist Marsden Hartley. This painting is a different type of portrait and many parts of it are symbols. It is currently being displayed in the metropolitan. -
Woolworth Building No. 31
John Marin is known for his New England landscapes. This picture shows a strange view and shows watercolor t be an abstract medium. -
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Georgia O'Keeffe is known for enlarging her subjects. In 1930 she began painting many different copies of Jack-in-the-Pulpit getting increasingly closer as she went along. This technique creates a totemic quality. -
American Gothic
this painting by Grant Wood is very well known for its rhyming of background and focus points. The artist drew the painting with the inspiration of an American Gothic House and the type of people he saw to live in it. -
The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali S frequently described his paintings as “hand painted dream photographs.” -
Nighthawks
Edward Hopper is the artist behind this popular painting. This painting has a sense of loneliness that you can almost feel. This painting was so popular that it was featured in a Simpsons episode,. It was also repainted by Gottfried Helnwein to add the faces of Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, and Elvis. It was also turned into a novel by Joyce Carol Oats. -
Freedom From Want
Norman Rockwell Freedom from Want, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms series of four oil paintings by American artist Norman Rockwell. The works were inspired by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address, known as Four Freedoms. -
Christina's World
This painting was first thought to be a depiction of teenage angst and was hung up as posters in teenagers rooms. but in reality it is a woman who has a disease which paralyzed her from the waist down. painted by Andrew Newell Wyeth. -
One: Number 31
Jackson Pollock is the very famous artist of this piece which was sold for 140 million. Pollock says that drip paintings fascinated him because when you are working from your unconsciousness figures are bound to emerge. -
Three flags
Three flags was painted by jasper johns, an american artist, in 1958. It is made of three different canvases, each about 25% smaller than the last, painted with wax. The three canvases on top of each other creates a three dimensional appearance. -
Elegy to the Spanish Republic
Robert Motherwell (LXX) Motherwell was only a teenager during the Spanish Civil War, but it affected him deeply. He made more than 200 paintings on this theme. I could make an argument here for symbols, forms and abstraction, but let's just call a penis, a penis. -
Carol
Patrick Nagel Think of the woman from Duran Duran's Rio album cover. Or maybe you remember his illustrations from your dad's Playboy magazines? The Nagel “woman” is highly stylized with bright white skin and black hair. She is rendered in two-dimensional form marked with bright colors. -
The Son of Man
Rene Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that the man's left arm appears to bend backwards at the elbow. -
president elect
painted by artist James Rosenquist. Though there are many things going on in this painting they seem to all flow together well as one. The artist said during campaigns people advertise themselves to promise what? Half a Chevrolet and a stale slice of cake? -
Sugar Shack
The artist of this painting, Ernie Barnes, is well known for his use of movement and elongation. This painting gained popularity when it was featured in a television series. -
Skylight
Alma W. Thomas Thomas used short strokes of blue color reminiscent of mosaic tesserae to create this work of accessible and affective abstraction. Lean back in your desk chair right now and imagine this painting in place of your ceiling. Dreamy, right? So magical that the Obamas chose it for their private quarters at the White House. -
Sleepwalker
Painted by Eric Fischl. Should we be allowed to gaze at the sleepwalking boy standing in a kiddie pool? Is he urinating? masturbating? Fischl has the uncanny ability to make the viewer into voyeur, however, the more we look at this painting, the less we understand. -
Untitled
Andy Warhol and Keith Haring famously collaborated on this project in which Haring's delicate graffiti handwork compliments Warhol's silkscreened newspaper “headlines.” The duo gave this pop + graffiti mash up to Madonna and Sean Penn for their 1985 Malibu wedding. -
Great America
This piece was painted by Kerry James. This painting is a view of america. It is said to show our love for amusement parks and our former appetite for slavery. -
Allegory
Kara Walker is best known for mounting large black silhouettes, and organizing them into antebellum scenes on white gallery walls. Themes taken up in these passages include race, sexuality, region and history. The phantasmagorical Allegory reveals Walker's painterly roots. -
Spectrum
the artist Richard Phillips was inspired by 1950's fashion advertisements to create this piece. It is best known for being displayed in Blair Waldorf's apartment in the popular show Gossip Girl. -
Self-portrait
Chuck Close is known for his large canvases but he does not spare detail. It looks as thought his painting was digitally created but Close is just extremely talented. This is one of his most famous pieces. -
Pantocrater
Painted by Vincent Desiderio. This triptych pays homage to the three-panel altarpiece form so popular during the Renaissance. Three seemingly unrelated pieces are linked together: the all-seeing powerful eye of the satellite rhymes with the cleft of the woman's buttocks and the window of the tower. Pantocrator, the Byzantine term for ruler of all, powerfully articulates the increasingly menacing role of science and technology in our everyday lives. -
Bush at Abu Ghraib
Peter Saul's acid-hued painting features a grinning President George W. Bush, who embraces a misshapen, bullet-ridden Iraqi soldier with one arm, while probing the distorted soldier's mouth with another. Bush's gesture could be influenced by a number of art historical sources. -
Barack Obama/Hope
Painted by Sheapard fairey this portrait become very popular during President Obama's campaign. It was posted everywhere and is familiar to most.
