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Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party

 Part I by BradleyTucker:Judy Chicago made what is to be considered the first epic feminist artwork. This work has toured over 16 countries and been viewed by more than 15 million people. Chicago worked with many influential feminist artists of the time to create her masterpiece. The triangular shape renders one of the earliest shapes …

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Nadin Ospina

Nadín Ospina is an award-winning Colombian artist with significant international exposure. His awards include First Prize, 34th Salon of Colombian Artists (1992) and First Prize, 18th Salon of Fire, Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (2004). From 1979 to 1982, he held the position of Professor of Fine Arts, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. In 1992 …

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Antonio Caro

Antonio Caro is one of the most influential Colombian artists in Latin America. Since the seventies, Antonio Caro is a figure of revolution. Today, with over forty years of experience, not only remains in force, but still shakes the foundations of the national art scene. Caro is a legend: a kind of superhero. He is …

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Carlos Castro

Colombian artist Carlos Castro is a chronicler of his time. In his pieces, he recontextualizes formally and symbolically found objects and images of his environment, some of them highly charged socially and politically, to create new narratives that bring to light the ones that have been socially suppressed over time or ignored in history. Castro …

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Fernando Botero

Botero is a figurative artist and sculptor from Medellín, Colombia. His signature style, also known as “Boterismo”, depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He is considered the most recognized and quoted living artist from Latin America. His figurative representation have a unique …

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Donald Judd

Donald Judd revolutionized practices and attitudes surrounding art making and the exhibition of art, primarily advocating for the permanent installation of works by artists in carefully selected environments. Judd achieved this goal for his own work and that of his colleagues at both his studio and residence at 101 Spring Street in New York and …

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz for many years has dealt with the issue of “the countless”. She says: “I feel overwhelmed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such quantity. A crowd of people or birds, insect or leaves, is a mysterious assemblage of variants of a certain prototype, a riddle of nature abhorrent …

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Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multi-media installations. Using time as process and material, her methods of making serve as an invocation of place, of collective voice, of communities past and of labor present. Noted for a dense accumulation of materials, her ephemeral environments create immersive …

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Dread Scott

I Am Not a Man; performance; 2009; duration 1 hour. Performance still 22 x 30 inches, pigment print. “I Am Not a Man. I am but I am not. I Am Not a Man was a performance that was presented on the streets of Harlem, New York. I walked bearing a historic, but crucially altered, …

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Black Mountain College

In 1933 John Rice opened a new school out side of Asheville NC after being dismissed from Rollins college for expressing his opinions about not wanting fraternities and sororities. His philosophy inspired by John Dewey, was to make art the center of all learning in his new college.  He offered the chair position to Bauhaus …

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“El Escandalo de lo real”

“El Escandalo de lo real” (2007) Susana Delahante In this work Susana had a photograph taken of herself being inpregnated via a speculum with the semen of a recently deceased man. as explained in “Conducta” or behavior, better known as performance art. This performative artwork was concerning itself with engaging reality and ethics in a …

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