1-Judy Chicago – The Dinner Party

>issues about feminism, art, and female representation

>comprised of a triangular table set for 39 notable women from history and myth including a
pre-historic goddes.
>Celebration of traditional female accomplishments such as textile arts (weaving, embroidery,
sewing) and china painting, which have been framed as craft or domestic art, as opposed to
the more culturally valued, male dominated fine arts.
>reference to Last Supper of Christ and his twelve disciples
>feminine identity and women’s liberation
>a record of women’s achievements in the face of Western Civilization’s repressive,
patriarchal history,
>Challenge to the masculine bias of art by revivingsuch traditional women’s crafts as
weaving, embroidery, and ceramics.
> "Through the muscular three-dimensionality of the plates representing modern women,
Chicago aimed to subvert the patriarchal obsession with phallic forms by developing 'an
active vaginal form.'" Naturally, the show drew the usual barrage of hell-and-damnation
rhetoric from mainstream critics and politicians--as well as from some feminists.

>reproductive organ of the woman

2-Cindy Sherman – Untitled Film Still no.3

> shoots pictures of herself in different disguises
>she gives the illusion that her photographs are excerpted from a movie that she not only
scripts and directs but also stars in.
> in the painting, Sherman stands over a kitchen sink but she is not interested in houseworks.
>her look over her shoulder seductively leaving her duty as a housewife to a side.
3-Jenny Holzer – Truisms, 1977-79: Abuse of Power Comes As No Surprise
>appropriating ideas from both corporate advertising and New York City street graffiti
>creation of verbal art works.
>a sequence of impersonal, broadly
>to draw the attention of busy pedestrians and motorists.
>questioning of power and authority
4-Barbara Kruger – Untitled (Your Comfort Is My Silence)
> feminist artist photographing ready-mades and adds them verbal headlines to oppose to
male dominance.
> in the painting, the ominous, black and white cinematic image of a man gesturing for the
aggressive man
>both verbal and visual language at the same time.
> a call to women to deconstruct or challenge the cultural stereotype of female passivity and
obedience to liberate themselves from masculine control.
>her poster-like style is partially indebted to the propaganda imagery from Russian artists.
5- pop art
>representational realist imagery appropriated from popular culture.
>in America pop art coincidences with the maturation of mass media advertising and the
proliferation of television.
>criticism on daily issues such as industrialization and advertising and media.
6-Lichtensein
>a leading pop artist.
>parodying of abstarct expressionism
>croppings of single comic-stirp panels
>he rejected the mysterious , contemplative environments of Abstract Expressionism
>commercial art centers upon industrial world.
7-Aaron Douglas
>African-American artist
>mural paintings
>social realism with a more Modernist, abstract vocabulary of forms.
>a leading figure in Harlem Renaissance.
>a cubist approach to African-American themes.
>Douglas’s critical interpretation of American urbanism and industrialization expressed his
socialist political views and strong support for labor unions. The plumes of smoke and
towering urban – industrial forms create the demonic characteristics of a hellish world.
8-Dunchamp, Fountain
>a white porcelain urinal
>New York Dada
>seeking to demolish the barrier between art and life
>Duchamp’s Fountain is a readymade
>criticism to ordinary art works

9-Rauschenberg- Bed:
>dissented from the psychological emotionalism and introspective philosophizing of the older
generation.
>Bed: spontaneous pairings of objects lack programmatic coherence or fixed meanings. His
combine paintings compare with the prose of William Burroughs, whose Naked Lunch
captured the immediacy of experience without a continuous storyline.

10-Do Ho Suh, seoul home

>A voluminous canopy in translucent celadon silk is suspended from the gallery ceiling like a dream or
a ghost of a house.