Contemporary Art As A Mirror

Module 1 For this assignment, I chose “Charing Cross Bridge” by André Derain. This work was made throughout 1905 and 1906, using oil on canvas. In this painng, a vague bridge shape, as well as what appears to be a city skyline, can be seen. The bridge and skyline are oﬀset by bright, pastel colors that make up the sky in an unconvenonal way. The sky is not all one c

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Caroline Woolard is known for the way she is “working to change the way the doing of art gets done.” She creates idealized art which calls attention to injustice in society. One of her reoccurring themes is the idea of “collaboration and empowerment,” and she advocates for giving power to disenfranchised people, through allowing them to collaborate. Ultim

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IDS 3167 Valenna Liernur’s Two Juices and a Cortado , was created in 2019 and is an oil on canvas painng. The painng is painted in only red and black shades, and depicts a woman sing in a restaurant or coﬀee shop. The woman is reading a newspaper, and has three cups in front of her. It can be inferred from the tle that these are the “two juices and a cortado. 1 ” A co

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Module 8 A-Z Pocket Property is an installaon created by Andrea Ziel in 1999. The piece involves a 44-ton ﬂoang concrete island, which is anchored oﬀ of Denmark. Ziel lived on this “island” for about a month, while she conducted an experiment on isolaon. Ziel got the idea for her piece from the way that people live their lives in respecve “bubbles,” whe

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Module 10 For this assignment, I focused on the 2002 piece, Five Economies (big hunt, lile hunt) by Catherine Sullivan. This work is a ﬁlm that involves one actress playing several diﬀerent roles and styles. She transforms through diﬀerent roles, which according to Sullivan, demonstrates how the actress is a “transcendent ﬁgure.” This ﬁlm was put togeth

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