Read: Culture as Currency and It is What It is

From the book: Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century by Richard J. Powell

 Barkley L Hendricks

Brilliantly Endowed (1977)

It is what it is by Drék Davis

Final Test

 

  Frida Kahlo

What the Water Gave Me

 1938

*Surrealism 

 Rashid Johnson's 

The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club 

 2008

Guerrilla Girls. 

Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met Museum? 

1989–2005

Eva Hesse

Right After

(Materials: Fiberglass)

1969

Edvard Munch

The Sick Child
1896

Jenny Holzer

Installation in Times Square, NYC

“Protect me from what I want”  (1983-85)

Caravaggio
David with the Head of Goliath
1609–1610

 

Michelangelo

David (1501-04)

Last Judgment (1536-41)

Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863)

*Romantic

Liberty Leading the People (1830)

Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
The Third of May (1814)





Goya
Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1801)

















Diego Velázquez  (1599-1660)
*Baroque
Las Meninas (La Familia de Felipe IV)
(1656)





 Diego Velázquez
Venus with Mirror or Toilet of Venus


















Gustave Courbet (1819– 1877) 
*Realism (Social Realism)
The Artist's Studio : A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life 
(1855)




















Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
*Rococo
The Swing (1767)





























Jan van Eyck (1395-1441)
*Flemish
The Arnolfini Portrait (Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami) 
(1434)

Picasso
Science and Charity
1897

 David Hammons 

 African American Flag (1990)

*Contemporary

John  Cage 
 (1912 –  1992)

John Ahearn
Raymond and Toby
1988
Originally installed in front of the South Bronx Police Station

A brief history of Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art:  History.com http://www.history.com/topics/renaissance-art

Election Day

Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix (1830)  

 Apolítico by Wilfredo Prieto (2001-08) 
Installation showing 45 iconic flags by countries recognized by the United Nations.

 David Hammons African American Flag (1990)

African American Flag uses the pattern of the American flag with black replaced for white and green replacing blue. The resulting red, black, and green flag reminds the viewer of colors often used in flags of African countries.

Barbara Kruger Untitled (Questions), 1991

Hélio Oiticica's "Parangolés"
 "Seja Marginal, Seja Herói" 

Hélio Oiticica, Cocaine Drawings

Cady Noland Low Pole with Flag (1993)

 Cady Noland, OOZEWALD (1989)

Puerto Rican flags in Humboldt Park, Chicago.

Puerto Rican Sun (1979) by Rafael Ferrer 
Fox Park, NYC.

 

 "WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT – Happy Christmas from John and Yoko” (Billboards in eleven major world cities), and "The Bed-in Performance." (1969)

“I don’t paint Democrats,” says Richard Phillips. “I vote for them.”

 Portrait of Condoleezza Rice by Luc Tuymans. (2005)