content 10: global contemporary

summer trees
song su-nam
1983 ce
ink on paper

adrogyne III
magdalena abakanowicz
1985 ce
burlap, resin, wood, nails, and string

earth’s creation
emily kame knwarreye
1994 ce
synthetic polymer, paint on canvas

untitiled #228
cindy sherman
1990 ce
photograph

trade (gifts for trading land with white people)
jaune quick-to-see-smith
1992 ce
oil and mixed-media on canvas

rebellious silence
shirin neshat, photo by cynthia preston
1994 ce
ink on photograph

en la barberia no se llora (no crying allowed in the barbershop)
pepon osorio
1994 ce
mixed media installation

pisupo lua afe (corned beef 2000)
michel tuffery
1994 ce
mixed media

electronic superhighway
nam june paik
1995 ce
mixed-media insallation (49-channel closed-circuit video installation, neon, steel, and electronic components)

pure land
mariko mori
1998 ce
color photograph on glass

lying with the wolf
kiki smith
2001 ce
ink and pencil on paper

darkytown rebellion
kara walker
2001 ce
cut paper and projection on wall

old man’s cloth
el anatsui
2003 ce
aluminum and copper wire

stadia II
julie mehretu
2004 ce
ink and acrylic on canvas

preying mantra
wangechi mutu
2006 ce
mixed media mylar

shibboleth
doris salcedo
2007-2008 ce
installation

kui hua zi (sunflower seeds)
ai weiwei
2010-2011 ce
sculpted and painted porcelain

Form:
-Sculpted and painted porcelain
Content:
-Hired a lot of people to hand paint millions of individual sunflower seeds
-Crunching sounds of people walking all over them
Function:
-Political rebellion
-Ideology of Chairman Mao: He was the sun, the seeds were his followers
-Initially supposed to always be you as a participant but the ceramic dust rising when people walked on it became too harmful
-Seeds symbolically represent an ocean of fathomless depth
Context
-2010-11 CE
-Ai Weiwei: brave artist, often gets in trouble for what he says

horn players
jean-michel basquiat
1983 ce
acrylic and oil paintstick

pink panther
jeff koons
1988 ce
glazed porcelain

the gates
christo, jeanne-claude
new york city
1979-2005 ce
mixed media installation

vietnam veterans memorial
maya lin
washington d.c.
1982 ce
granite

the crossing
bill viola
1996 ce
video and sound installation

the swing (after fragonard)
yinka shonibare
2001 ce
mixed-media installation

guggenheim museum bilbao
frank gehry
bilbao, spain
1997 ce
titanium, glass, and limestone

maxxi national museum of xxi century arts
zaha hadid
rome, italy
2009 ce
glass, steel, and cement

dancing at the louvre
faith reinggold
1991 ce
acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed, pieced fabric borders

a book from the sky
xu bing
1987-1991 ce
mixed-media installation