What is Art?What is Art?World Discovery SeminarWorld Discovery Seminar

Chugiak High SchoolChugiak High School

Cave Art; Lascaux, Francec. 12000 BC

Handprint Petroglyphs

Venus of Willendorf Venus De Milo24,000 BC Europe 80 BC Greece Are they both art?

Mona LisaBy Leonardo DaVinci

c. 1506

Andreas Gursky “99 Cent”

7’x12’

Jackson Pollock: Abstract Expressionist

1912-1956

Disputed Pollock $5 Signed Pollock $140M

Andreas Gursky “Shanghai”4’x9’

“The Scream”

Edvard Munch 1863-1944

Campbell’s Soup Dollar Signs

Andy Warhol 1928-1987Pop Art

Georges Seurat1859-1891pointilism

“Ballerina” Edgar Degas; 1834-1917

Georgia O’Keeffe1887-1986

Georgia O’Keeffe1887-1986

“Birds in an Aquarium” Jean Hans Arp

1887-1966

“Flag”Jasper Johns; 1930-

Object (Le Déjenuere en fourrure), 1936

Meret OppenheimSurrealist Swiss artist

created after tea with Picasso, fur from Chinese Gazelle

Melanie Fischer1969-

Installation artist

“The Earth Room” 1977; 3600 sq.ft.

Walter DeMaria, installation artist

“Map”Jasper Johns; 1930-

Family & House Isabella Thornton

“Drowning Girl” 1963Roy Lichtenstein

“Guernica”, 1937Picasso

12’x24’; Depicts Nazi bombing of Guernica, Spain

4 Horsemen of the ApocalypseJason Taylor, 2015

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